Word: sailboating
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first time Culver was ever on a sailboat, he recalls, Kennedy took him to a race on Nantucket in his brother John’s sailboat, Victura, which barely survived a boat yard fire this past December...
Hair tugged into a messy ponytail, I tread down the steps of my Annapolis townhouse and jog towards Main Street. Downtown Annapolis is a lot like Cambridge-—brick sidewalks, bad traffic and old-fashioned charm. I jog towards the sailboat-dotted harbor...
Dear boy, we weren’t going to the U.S., we were coming here, to Plymouth rock, the first colony in the New World, and in regards to this “Gameboy,” I had none, but I did whittle this fine miniature sailboat (available in the gift shop...
...sailboat, it has often been said, is a hole in the water into which one pours money. Weekend sailors joke that boat is an acronym for Bring Out Another Thousand. A used 18-ft. sloop can cost $10,000, while a new 36-ft. two-masted ketch can run $100,000 and up. And then there's the maintenance and the commitment to sail from a single port. Sailing courses, however, free their students from these costs and limitations. That's because U.S. certifications are accepted in most ports around the country and the world. Graduates can use their certification...
...sailboat-rental agencies report a jump in business from European and Latin American executives. Many of their sailing schools at home have adopted U.S. certification standards, and they can use that "passport" in Yankee waters. Castle Harbor has contracted with U.S. Olympic sailing gold medalist Magnus Liljedahl to teach corporate groups, who hope that learning mainsheets might help improve their balance sheets. So who said sailing was supposed to be relaxing...