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Sailors sailing sailboats, racing sailboats and cruising sailboats, sailing adventures, and summaries of sailing events are the core of my writing. Sailing is how I relate to life. Virtually all the stories, articles, poetry, humor, and pleasures contained in this site, are about sailing, from a variety of perspectives. Sailing is winning.

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I have been sailing all my life, one way or another.  It wasn’t until 1985 that I figured out that a boat, wind and water made it a lot more enjoyable. I have owned numerous boats since then. I am always in pursuit of higher performance or more intense competition. I have sailed prams, kayaks, canoes, catamarans, trimarans, racers and cruisers. The lessons I have learned are numerous and applicable on a broad scale. Writing about them is enjoyable and fulfilling. It often allows me to review lessons that I have learned before, and prepare for those lessons that I have still to learn. Several pages of this collection are available on this site. I have been certified by the American Sailing Association, US Sailing, and the US Coast Guard, as a sailing instructor, powerboat instructor, and Captain.

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My Favorite Things

My favorite Things
As abused by Willie Blevins in 1995

Girls in bikinis with batting eyelashes,
Sliding down big waves and hearing the splashes
Wind in the rigging with tension that sings
These are a few of my favorite things

Kevlar and Mylar and long tapered battens
Outhauls and downhauls and a mains’l that flattens
Colorful spinnakers and rigid boom vangs
these are a few of my favorite thangs.

When the mast breaks, when the boat sinks
When I come in last,
I simply remember my favorite things
and then I don’t feel like an ass.

Digital readouts and self tailing winches
Finishing races and winning by inches
Smooth sanded bottoms and new damn it rings
These are a few of my favorite things

Crew that call wind shifts and yell at port tackers
Harken ball bearings and stainless steel shackles
Fair keels and rudders and sailboats in slings
These are a few of my favorite things

When the mast breaks, when the boat sinks
When I come in last,
I simply remember my favorite things
and then I don’t feel like an ass.

Calling for room to all those outsiders
Walking around in brand new Topsiders
Beating to windward, curtailing a luff
This is just some of my favorite stuff

Wide open transoms and plenty of mast bend
Shaking the reef out when there’s too muych wind
Fresh breeze and sunshine, a swim in the buff,
This is just some of my favorite stuff

When the mast breaks, when the boat sinks
When I come in last,
I simply remember my favorite things
and then I don’t feel like an ass.

another favorite thing

another favorite thing

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