Summer Sailstice News & Stories
Summer Sailstice Words of the Week – Familiar Phrases, Pt II
by JR
Long shot – in the old days, cannons weren’t very accurate at long range. So a long shot was always a gamble with only a slim chance of success – as it is today in common usage.
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Win $250 in March from West Marine
by jarndt
It's March. Spring is around the corner (we hope). If you're not already in the midst of a project we're sure there's a boat project in your not-to-distant future.
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Beware the Tides of March
by JR
A thousand years ago, Cnut the Great was a pretty popular guy. He’d not only stopped the Viking hoards from invading England, he eventually became king of the North Sea Empire, which included England, Denmark, Norway and part of Sweden.
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Sailing In the City By the Bay
by JR
Sailing is fun anywhere, but for location-location-location, it’s hard to beat San Francisco Bay. In the summer, this natural amphitheater boasts afternoon winds in the teens or ‘20s (and sometimes more) every day.
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Start Sailing Now - Who You Gonna Call?
by JR
It may interest you to know that of all the myriad avenues just a phone call away for new sailors – sailing schools, yacht clubs, community programs, dinghy days, local marinas, individual fleets, special events (such as, ahem, Summer Sailstice),
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IL - Chicago Sailing Celebrates Sailstice
by jarndt
Chicago sailing has been providing access to sailing since 1986 and, as they say on their site, they firmly believe that sailing is more than just sport, it's a way of life.
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More on the Kennedy's Beetle Cat and Wianno Senior Gaff Sloop
by JR
Our recent mention of a Beetle Cat once owned by the Kennedy family (Jackie bought it for John and Caroline to sail in Europe when she was married to Aristotle Onassis) elicited a reminder from a reader that James W.
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Amazing Maritime Musings
by JR
We were cruising the other day – the internet, that is. And you know these sites where they suck you in with something like “15 Celebrities Whose Plastic Surgery Went Horribly Wrong”?
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Summer Sailstice Words of the Week – Familiar Phrases
by JR
Many sailing words have made their ways into everyday language. But you might be surprised at how many phrases you hear every day also came from shipboard life.
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All Sailors Are Rich - Right?
by jarndt
Sailors often feel they are misrepresented in the media which seems to love perpetuating the myth that sailors all rich 'yachtsmen'. Really, where would anyone get that idea?
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