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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Sail training   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
While the summer race series are the pinnacle of the sail training experience, most maritime nations have government, private and charitably funded ships preserving the ways of seamen from a time gone by, helping the youth and the “young at heart” find themselves and working somewhere off their coasts on short trips year round.
Sail training is not intended to a vacation.
Sail training is about the excitement imparted by a tall ship racing along, rail down before the wind and coming face to face with the elements.
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 Encyclopedia of Yacht Designers
He's raced to Bermuda 12 times, run an America's Cup as chairman of the NYYC Race Committee in 1970, is on the Board of the American Sail Training Association, and a member of the America's Cup Hall of Fame Selection Committee.
He was born on the island of Heligoland in the North Sea and began sailing as the age of eight.
She is an ocean sailing sea cook, an environmentalist, islander, writer, and mother of a Vineyard farming daughter and San Diego-based wooden boat building son.
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 Houghton Mifflin Electronic Publishing - Ships Of The World by Lincoln P. Paine
In 1803, Constitution sailed as flagship of the Mediterranean Squadron maintaining a tight blockade on Tripoli, which was bombarded in August and September 1804, and finally forced the deys of Algiers and Tunis to sign treaties exempting American ships from tribute payments.
Constitution emerged from her rebuilding in 1835 and thereafter sailed on a number of diverse assignments, including the Mediterranean and Home Squadron, and on the South Pacific stations and, in 1844-46, a 29-month circumnavigation of the world.
Rebuilt in the 1870s, she sailed again as a training ship until 1881, after which she was used as a receiving ship in New Hampshire.
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 sail training - Everything For Training   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
the adventure of tall ship sail training for people of all ages...
Sail Training International - the international association of national sail training organisations in 18 countries.
A youth and adult sail training program, located in Port Townsend, Washington, aboard the 65' wooden gaff-rigged topsail schooner, Alcyone.
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 Training - Software, FreeWare, ShareWare, Download   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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 Classic Sail 2006 Calendar Consumer Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Sales benefit the American Sail Training Association, a nonprofit group that organizes sail training activities in American waters.
Lacquered mahogany hulls and brass fixtures polished to a high-seas shine.
The editors of SAIL, the world's best-selling saling magazine, selected the greatest sailing shots by some of the finest sailing photographers in the sport that best convey the true joy of sailing.
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 xrefer - about our titles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Ships of the World is not only an invaluable reference but fascinating reading for anyone who has the slightest interest in history or who simply likes messing about in boats, whether on the water or from a comfortable chair at home.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lincoln Paine, formerly editor of Sea History magazine and director of the Schooners Foundation, is a member of the national advisory board of the American Sail Training Association.
He lives with in Portland, Maine, with his wife, Allison, and two daughters, who bear the names of famous ships.
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 Holdings - Reference
Report of the Seventieth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science: Leeds, 1890
History and Bibliography of the New American Practical Navigator and the American Coast Pilot
Age of Sail, The - International Annual of the Historic Sailing Ship, Vol 1
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