Do you enjoy taking photographs, making movies, fixing old boats, or singing sea shanties?
We've put together four Contests for this year's Summer Sailstice. You can enter one, or enter them all!
If you enjoy making movie clips to turn your friends green with envy when they see what a great day you had out on the water, put that energy to good use and enter the Video Challenge. Send us a 1-minute clip of your Summer Sailstice 2017 celebration. You don't have to be Alfred Hitchcock, or James Cameron, or even George Lucas (though it would be cool to hear from you George). You don't even have to be a Pixar artist. Maybe you just want to string together a minute's worth of the day's bloopers! What ever you do, we're looking for clips that showcase sailing. Whether you've had a fun sunny day, or the rains came down and washed you all away, send us what you create from your 2017 celebration. At the very least you'll probably have a lot of fun putting it together!
If still-shots are your thing, perhaps you'll end up with a favorite photo, or photos, of your 2017 Sailstice sail. Enter them in the Photo Competition. We'll accept photos of sailboats, crew, Summer Sailstice burgees flying, bodies clad in Sailsitce swag, artistic shots of sails, winches, wheels, compasses. Of course we'll accept sunsets and sunrises - you can never have too many of those. We'll even consider photos of your lunch, if we get an invite. You can enter as many photos as you like, but make sure you read the rules first!
Now, about that Sea Shanty Shake... There's no doubt about it, Sailors love to sing! What else is there to do on those endless passages? Besides, I'm sure we've all had a go at being pirates, we're rum drinkers right? So let's hear those voices and show us how well you harmonise together, or alone, we don't mind either way. We're just looking for some good old, salty-sailor singing. You can sing to background music if you like. Perhaps you have a squeeze box or button box on board, or maybe one of those excellent waterproof Ukuleles from Kala Brand - which by the way will be up for grabs again this year. Dont' be shy, share your talent with the world, or at least with your Summer Sailstice family. Who knows, if you start now you might even be able to put together a band!
And there's the Restore an Old Sail Boat competition. Previously, you had to restore an old wooden boat to enter, but we realize there are a lot of other old boats that are also worthy of restoration and that people are doing just that. So this year we've opened up the competition to 'old' boats in general. If you have, or are restoring an old sail boat, we want to see what you've been up to. Send us photos of the work in progress, before and after shots if you have them - I always forget to take before shots, but hopefully you took plenty. Give us a bit of insight into your project and anything else you want to share, and we'll share it with the everyone else. You'll be famous! You might even get people calling you to come and work your magic on their boat.
Remember you have to be registered for Summer Sailstice 2017 to be elgible to enter. So renew your registration, or Sign up, and tell us your sailing plans.
