Summer Sailstice News & Stories
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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Clan of the Cave Run
by JR
Ask 100 people what comes to mind when you mention Kentucky and you will get lots of responses involving fine whiskey, a certain horse race at Churchill Downs, and the place they make Louisville Sluggers.
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Kennedy’s Childhood Sailboat up at Auction
by jarndt
This looks cool. Beetle Cats are one of the great classic classes from the Northeast and here's one with a unique pedigree - a Kennedy original.
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New Orleans Home of Sailing Saints.
by jarndt
New Orleans was the site of a gathering of US Sailing ‘saints’ - the people who are on the front lines of sharing sailing with the youth of America through community and youth sailing programs.
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Summer Sailstice Word of the Week – Lee
by JR
Lee” has a myriad of meanings these days – alleys, blue-eyed girls, a brand of jeans. It was a type of medium tank in World War II. And it is a common first and last name over much of the world.
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Dinner And A Movie
by JR
While sailing is the main focus of Summer Sailstice, doing something 'sailing related' counts, too.
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Our One Bridge Fiasco
by jarndt
San Francisco's 'Three Bridge Fiasco' run by the San Francisco Bay Singlehanded Sailing Society at times resembles San Francisco's sometimes 'loopy' Bay to Breakers Race.
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The West Coast’s Wackiest Race - by Scuttlebutt Sailing
by jarndt
Scuttlebutt editor Craig Leweck tells of 'the fiasco' - now with 369 boats signed up to start on Saturday:
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