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July 2016
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- On Watch – John Kantor
- These Moments in Sailing Time
- Letter: Let’s go sailing!
- Letter: The C&C Northeast Rendezvous is September 10 – 12, 2016
- SSV Oliver Hazard Perry Looking to Fill Crew Spots
- Big Turnout for Women’s Sailing Conference
- Ten Reasons to Sail Into Rockland, Maine This Summer
- Healing & Strengthening
- From the Log of Persevere: Central America
- “Hello? Hello? Can You Hear Me Now?” Cell Phones and Boats
- Finding North – How Navigation Makes Us Human
- Young Sailors: Fueling the Passion
- Pauline Dowell Wins Robie Pierce One-Design Regatta
- Eight teams will take part in the inaugural Clagett/Oakcliff Match Racing event for adaptive sailors
- Sea Stories and Cockpit Rum Punch
- New Venue for the Mystic Blues Festival
- Jay Perrotta Joins Mack Boring
- Rob Brooks Joins Offshore Sailing School
- July 2016 July Comic by Dave Foster – Crash Gordon
- 2016 U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Sailing News
On Watch
On Watch – John Kantor

John Kantor, or ‘JK’ as nearly everyone but his mother refers to him, has sailed as long as he can remember.
Publisher's Log
These Moments in Sailing Time
but also because it seems every sailor has their share of those moments that they hold dear.
Letters
Letter: Let’s go sailing!
Shoreline Sailing Club sounds like a great idea.
Letters
Letter: The C&C Northeast Rendezvous is September 10 – 12, 2016

Owners and admirers of C&C Yachts are cordially invited to the 2016 C&C Northeast Rendezvous, which will be held September 10 – 12, 2016 at Mystic Seaport in Mystic, CT.
Checking In
SSV Oliver Hazard Perry Looking to Fill Crew Spots

Oliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island (OHPRI) is seeking to hire licensed deckhands for its brand new 200-foot SSV Oliver Hazard Perry, which is based in Newport, RI and scheduled to sail throughout New England this summer.
Checking In
Big Turnout for Women’s Sailing Conference

With a roster of new instructors and increasing interest in technical subjects, the 15th Annual Women’s Sailing Conference drew over 100 women to the Corinthian Yacht Club in Marblehead, MA on Saturday, June 4
Cruising
Ten Reasons to Sail Into Rockland, Maine This Summer

Ten Reasons to Sail Into Rockland, Maine This Summer
Racing
Healing & Strengthening

This philosophy led to the creation of the Warrior Sailing Program, an official program of the USMMA Sailing Foundation in Kings Point, NY.
Cruising
From the Log of Persevere: Central America

This is the fourteenth installment in a series of dispatches from the Rath family (Colin & Pam, daughters Breana, Meriel and Nerina), who departed Stamford, CT in the fall of 2014 for a worldwide cruise aboard their Hanse 545 Persevere. You’ll find previous articles linked below.
From the Captain of the Port
“Hello? Hello? Can You Hear Me Now?” Cell Phones and Boats
By Vincent Pica, Commodore, First District, Southern Region (D1SR), United States Coast Guard Auxiliary When I wrote in the past about the need and use of a VHF radio, I noted that if you didn’t have a radio aboard that you were risking your life over a couple of hundred dollars – it was “nutty”…