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Take Me Sailing, Doc
2005 Edition

Sailors are a peculiar lot - different from other boaters. The pace of the sailor is slow and easy. Sailors tend to be self-sufficient, relying on their boat-handling skills to travel from here to there and back again, no matter the direction of the winds. The best sailors develop an acute feel for the elements of nature, being at one with wind and waves.




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Sunsets & Lighthouses || More Sailing with Doc || Sailing Terminology || Other Sailors
Doc's Pirate Cruises || Connecticut Regional Sailing and Tourism Information
Sailing Pics I || Sailing Pics II || Doc's Ever-Changing Home Pages


"We are tied to the ocean,"
President Kennedy said in
1962 at a dinner celebrating
America's Cup.

"When we go back to the sea,
whether it is to sail or to watch it,
we are going back from whence we came..."


"The Sea is so Big,
My Boat is so Small"

~JFK~




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Dinner is Served!
Dinner

The Only Way I Can Bring You Sailing With Us
Is Here...On Your Computer.


Friends
I Hope You Can
Come Along Some Day.

Now Hoist That Jib!

Doc's Sailing Pages DirectoryTry one of these!




"Was there ever a sailor free to choose that didn't settle somewhere near the sea?"

~Rudyard Kipling


Summertime
and the living is easy;
Fish are jumping,
and the cotton is high.
Your daddy's rich and
your mamma's good looking,
So hush, little baby, don't you cry.

~George Gershwin (1898-1937)




Pirate Cruises
Pirate Cruise Links
Browse at your own risk.
No lifeguard on duty.

2000 Pirate Cruise


Our 1999 Pirate Cruise



The Sailing Pages Have Grown!
Click on "Hootie"
to see photos from past years.

Hootie
He's our Mascot!


Pirate Cruise 1998  Here

Pirate Cruise 1997  Here

Pirate Cruise 1995 Photo

Pirate Cruise 1994 Photo

Pirate Cruise 1991 Photo

(Pirate Cruise Winter Edition)

Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
We wrapped 'em all in a mains'l tight,
With twice ten turns of a hawser's bight,
And we heaved 'em over and out of sight

Pirate
With a yo-heave-ho!
And a fare-you-well!
And a sullen plunge
In the sullen swell,
Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell !
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

"Derelict" ~ Young E. Allison

More About Pirates




Some More Sailing Photos

Some OpSail Photos



Sunsets


Doc,

"I am an inactive sailor, but still long for the water, and I enjoyed your web site. I write quite a bit and am enclosing this poem. Thanks."

I LONG

I long for the solitude
of a sunset at sea,
and the chill of the breeze
coming in with the eve.
For the motion of my boat,
as she swings on her rode,
and the beauty of the stars,
in the evenings last glow.

~R.C. Gibbons


"I come back from sailing
changed in a way
I find difficult to express."



OpSail Sunset
Sunset Over Flat Hammock Island

Sunset Over South Dumpling

Rainbow Colors Sunset

A Gorgeous Full Moon

Full Moon at Fisher's Island

A Beautiful Ocean Sunset (With Keith)

A Beautiful Ocean Sunset (With Doc)

Another Beautiful Ocean Sunset

Another Beautiful Ocean Sunset

Sunset at Anchor

A Block Island Sunset

A Newport Sunset

Lighthouse History

A few years back, I visited Ken and Donna at The Captain's Watch in Maine.
I recommend you enjoy the beauty of Maine's Casco Bay and beyond.
Personalized captained sailing aboard a 37ft. center cockpit sloop!
Sail from Cundy's Harbor, Harpswell, Maine.

sailboat
Sail in Maine
with
Captain Ken Brigham
Sail with Ken aboard the 37 foot center cockpit sloop Symbion
Good Food, Great Views, Nice People, Romance, and Sailin'.
Ahhhhhhhh...... What more could you want?

Visit
The Captain's Watch
Bed and Breakfast and Sail Charter
at Cundy's Harbor in Harpswell, Maine.
Take a look at this place, and tell them I said hi!

Goddess of the Sea Cruises
Also from Maine, Captain Frank and his
private sailing adventures along the
rocky coast of Maine.


Don't know your Port from your
Starboard?

Doc's Humorous Sailing Lingo

Whale Button

flag

"The Sea is so Big,
My Boat is so Small"

~JFK~

Truly Alone


Floating
Click to See
Doc Floating Alone

SHARK!


One ship sails east and another sails west
With the self-same winds that blow.
Tis the set of the sail and not the gale
Which determines the way they go.
As the winds of the sea are the ways of fate
As we voyage along through life,
Tis the act of the soul that determines the goal,
And not the calm or the strife.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox


US Weather Radar Map

Connecticut Radar Map

NEW LINKS!    REGIONAL INFORMATION

Morgan Point Lighthouse  -  A beautiful old lighthouse in our home port of Noank, inactive and now on the National Register of Historic Places.
Mystic Seaport - the 18th & 19th Centuries come alive here, from tall ships to tall tales, this is "the museum of America and the Sea!"
Mystic Aquariumthe Institute for Exploration and the Challenge of the Deep, this fabulous facility is ideal for transient boaters.
Noank Tide Charts!here's a great new link, compliments of MaineHarbors website featuring our local tide charts updated monthly.
Stonington Harbor Lighthouse Museum - just a hop, skip and jump Noank, you'll love this wonderful old light and the town, too!
US Coast Guard Museumlocated just up the road a piece from Noank, this fantastic museum covers more than two centuries of service and is more than worth a visit!
USS Nautilus & Submarine Force Museum - a few miles west of Noank, this is the Navy's official submarine museum.



Live Mystic Seaport WebCam

Connecticut Tourism
"We're Full of Surprises"

Earth & Moon Viewer
See what the earth looks like from space
right now!

Endeavour Sailboats
A page for
Endeavour owners.

West Marine


SailNet is The Internet Sailing Community

Sailing Source
for Sailing on the Internet.

Ratsey & Lapthorn Sailmakers

Soundings
The Nation's Boating Newspaper!



"He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."

- Henry David Thoreau


Jacques-Yves Cousteau
"The reason I love the sea I cannot explain..."
1910-1997

Son of a Son of a
Sailor
Jimmy Buffet's
MARGARITAVILLE

Radio Margaritaville
Tune in to some of the greatest music ever.
The big noise from paradise.


Visit the Seaport!
Historic Mystic Seaport

Swan


Please Sign The Ship's Log Before You Leave

Sailing Photos | Some More Sailing Photos

Humorous Sailing Lingo

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