1) Please RSVP no later than Wednesday, June 2, 2010to let us know:
• The number of people in your party.
• The dinner entree (lobster or chicken)
for each person in your party
• How you will arrive - by ferry or by
sailboat. Peter needs to inform the
Harbormaster about the number of
sailboats expected for the
Sailstice/Rendezvous weekend.
2) The per person price for the Rendezvous Dinner is $35. Checks must be received no later than Wednesday, June 2, 2010. Please send checks to:
Maine Hunter Sailing Association
c/o Jerry Homer, Treasurer
96 Annable Road
Boothbay, ME 04537-4914
The Sock-Castoff Fire Ceremony:
Weather permitting, the Maine Hunter Sailing Association will continue a very important tradition at the Summer Sailstice. On Sunday evening, providing the weather gods cooperate (and the town issues a fire permit), there will be a fire ceremony whereby all Captains, Admirals, First Mates and other able-bodied sailors will come forward to cast off a pair (or half pair) of worn out winter socks into the fire to mark the official end of all vestiges of winter and to raise an incense (so to speak) to the fog Gods, chasing them from all rhumb lines that Maine Hunter Sailing Association boats may find themselves on this summer. A sea shanty may possibly accompany this event as well. Please come prepared (whatever that means).
Bruce Foshay will be leading us in the "Burning of the Socks" offering to the gods and goddesses of the seas.....or whatever it is!
This page was last updated by MHSA Webmaster: January 7, 2011
Oscar - "Man overboard."
Where: Fairwinds, Long Island, Casco Bay, ME
Rendezvous Site from a few thousand miles above.
Directions:
If you come by boat: You can anchor in mud in front of Fairwinds, Peter and Sue Poulin’s Long Island home. Approximate coordinates are: 43° 41’ 38” N 70° 09’ 36” W. Enjoy sailing the bay and put in around 2-3 PM Saturday. On Sunday, dinghy over to the dinghy dock on the jetty and walk up to “Fairwinds” at 500 Island Ave.
You can also come on the Casco Bay Ferry. Below is the link to their web-site. Summer 2010 schedules have not yet been published. In past years, people have taken the 10:00 AM ferry from Portland to Long Island, and returned on the 4:20 PM ferry from Long Island.
You can contact Casco Bay Ferry by phone at Phone: (207) 774-7871
What: Summer Sailstice** is the global holiday celebrating sailing, held annually on the summer solstice, the longest sailing day of the year. This summer we will hold our Rendezvous during the Summer Sailstice weekend. Our hosts are Peter and Sue Poulin.
MHSA members & guests arriving in their boats will meet up Saturday, June 19 at the Goslings. Approximate coordinates are: 43° 46' 55.51" N 70° 2' 37.00" W. The party starts at 4 PM. It's a BYOB/SYS event (SYS= Something-Yummy-to-Share.) We'll spend the night in this wonderful location, and Sunday we'll sail down to our Annual Rendezvous on Long Island. .
Other members and guests will arrive at the Rendezvous via ferry on Sunday, June 20.
Dinner will be served at 1 PM Sunday; the Sock-Castoff Fire Ceremony will follow.
When: Sat June 19 and Sun June 20, 2010.
** Summer Sailstice
Don't forget to register as part of the International Sailstice event.
Go to: http://www.summersailstice.com and click on "Join an Event". Select the Americas, USA, and Maine and you should see the MHSA event listed.
Two of our members actually "won" one of the "door prizes" last year. No cost to register and you might actually win something.
