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Free Sailing in Annapolis
Here’s something I found for your new sailors in a recent issue of Cruising Compass “The Weekly Newsletter for Cruiser & Sailors”
Annapolis Community Boating is currently offering four-hour complimentary sailing lesson provided by FreeSail, which run every Sunday until the first week of October. In its second year, FreeSail has exposed more than 450 people to sailing. The program is offered in conjunction with Annapolis Community Boating and the National Sailing Hall of Fame. Participants are eligible for one session to allow more people to take advantage of the program.”It’s great to get people involved in sailing without having to spend money,” said Callahan, an Annapolis-based executive for a transportation company. Callahan is getting back into sailing after a 20-year hiatus. The goal of the program is to expose newcomers and sailors of all levels to the water with the hope that they will continue with the sport. “We want to get people out on the water,” said Susan Taylor, one of the organizers of the activity. “It gives them a taste of it without having to spend the money.” For more information about this program, click on the following link:
http://annapolisboating.org/programs/free-sail
Also from the same issue of Cruising Compass:
Multihull Spring Boat Shows - Fort Lauderdale & Annapolis
The 2010 Fort Lauderdale Spring Multihulls Event, taking place on May 1st & 2nd, is being held at the Fort Lauderdale Catamaran Center at 1 & 2 Isle of Venice Drive, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 33301, from 10 am to 5 pm.
The second show, on May 8th and 9th, is taking place at the Mid-Atlantic Catamaran Center in the heart of Annapolis, MD, at 7364 Edgewood Road, Annapolis, MD, 21403, from 10 am to 5 pm. From: Multihulls Magazine. Photo courtesy of Multihullmag.
For more information: www.multihullsmag.com/news/template/2010/001.aspx.
And on a more serious note here’s another article from Cruising Compass:
10 Ways To Help Keep Plastic Out Of Our Oceans
You’ve read about all the scary things out there in our oceans; Somali pirates, rogue waves, but how about the real dangers? Plastic.
Imagine the massive breadth and spread of our great state of Texas. Now imagine every milli-inch of that piled high with trash: bottle caps, cigarettes, cigarette lighters, tampon applicators, plastic nets, discarded flip flops, Frisbees, soda bottles, milk jugs, diapers, six-pack rings, busted tennis rackets, empty pens, shampoo bottles, empty squeeze bottles of jam, you name it. Now take that image, double it, and plunk into the water. That’s what is floating around the eastern corner of a 10-million-square-mile oval known as the North Pacific subtropical gyre. Nicknamed the “Eastern Garbage Patch,” this buoyant stew of toxic pollution—most of which is plastic—is only one of five such garbage heaps caught in the swirling high-pressure currents characteristic of gyres. The others reside in the South Pacific, the North and South Atlantic, and the Indian Ocean. And each year, perhaps unwittingly, each one of us adds to plastic to the heap. Cruisers and sailors are generally more environmentally aware than landlubbers, but if we’re not onboard, we tend to resort to our old comforts and that includes using too much plastic.
Here’s what you can do now, to lessen the amount of plastic that ends up in our oceans: To see the list, go to BWS.com.
Photo: Turtle caught in plastic ring (courtesy Dino Ferri, Audubon Institute
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February 6th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Does anyone have a 14 day sail plan for the BVI’s
April 29th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
Nice clean new site. Congratulations, I hope things will improve for you versus last year.