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Sailing Bvi: Publishes a periodic journal, The Spray, and monthly newsletters. Dues: $30 per year. Awards are made for outstanding seamanship and maritime literature.
United States sailing bvi Association (US sailing bvi), P.O. Box 1260, Portsmouth, RI 02871-0907; 401-683-0800; www.ussailing bvi.org. The national governing body for the sport of sailing bvi, whose mission is to encourage participation and excellence in sailing bvi and racing in the United States. Its goals are achieved through member organizations and volunteers, supported by an administrative staff at the US SAIL Headquarters.
United States Olympic sailing bvi Committee, 15 Maritime Drive, Portsmouth, RI 02871-6145; 401-683-0800; www.ussailing bvi.org. This organization helps to raise funds to facilitate U.S. participation in Olympic yachting competition.
Sports for participation include hiking, fishing, bathing, sailing bvi, and, in winter, skiing (especially at Are), skijoring (being drawn on skis by a trotting horse), skate-sailing bvi and, most thrilling of all, ice yachting. If the last three venturesome sports call you, the Tourist Association will give you a steer on how to go about engaging in them.See Also Sailing Flags:There is probably nothing that marks the knowledgeable skipper as much as the proper flying of sailing flags on his or her boat. There are no laws or regulations governing the display of sailing flags and pennants on a recreational craft, but there are well-established customs and procedures. These cover what sailing flags are to be flown, what size they should be, and when and where on a Boat they should be displayed. The term "colors" properly applies only to the flag at the stern of a Boat that denotes its nationality. In practice, however, it has come to be used to describe all the sailing flags flown.
Other sailing flags, such as club burgees, officers' sailing flags, and private signals on motorboats, should be approximately 5/8 of an inch for each foot of overall length. On sailboats, they should be approximately 1/2 inch on the fly for each foot that the highest masthead is above the water. The shape and proportions of pennants and burgees will be prescribed by the organization to which they relate.
Flying sailing flags in Foreign Waters
On The Other Hand See Sailing Gifts:There are several of the world's largest chandeliers, one, a present from Czar Nicholas II, weighing three and a half tons. There are relics or gifts from most of the kings and queens of 19th-century Europe and some from an earlier period, including certain interesting Napoleana. One of Napoleon's gifts to one of the sultans is a Table with enamel insets of the women in his Life. Among them are his mother, his sister Pauline Bonaparte, and his two wives, Josephine and Marie Louise, getting along together very amicably.
Children's programs and private instruction also available.
Seafarer sailing gifts, Seafarer Group, Inc., 927 Mountain Meadows Rd., Boulder, CO 80302-9259; 303-444-2307. Courses on cruising under sail; local sailing gifts classes; "sail 8c learn" bluewater cruises.
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