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What's your life like when you spend 213 days on the water within the calendar year? Read it and weep. 

Do YOU have situational awareness while paddling?

Here’s the one complaint I have heard increasingly and repeatedly for the past seven years: standup paddleboarders and kayakers are not paying attention to boat traffic. What's SUP with this lack of situational awareness on the water? As an active paddler, it upsets me—and sometimes I may be part of the problem! I’ve been on both sides of the equation, the paddler paddling out of the way, and the 40-foot boat driver thinking, “What the heck is she doing?!?”

Two sailors who began as adults, took a class, got hooked, and eventually sold their stuff and sailed south

The new Take Someone Sailing Day encourages local skippers to invite people who haven’t been sailing before to come onboard and experience the beauty and fun of the sport.

The first annual Boat Maryland Week will run April 26 to May 5. The 10-day celebration will highlight the beginning of Maryland’s boating season and the state’s deeply-rooted ties to maritime history. 

Lead by Cedric Lewis and Fredrik Salvesen have been sailing together since the early 1980s. Team Mirage is a sailing crew that clicks.

Six sites have been chosen to host Smithsonians Water/Ways exhibit, which will tour throughout Maryland from May 2019 to March 2020.

On August 28, Leukemia Cup organziers honored SpinSheet with a National Media Award for Journalistic Excellence.

You don't always hear the words "Naptown" and "funk" in the same phrase, but check out this fun 3-minute video of U.S. Naval Academy Midshipmen having some fun on a Saturday on Maryland Avenue in Annapolis. Here's an article about the making of the video, too. Video below.

Remembering Phebe, sailing to Oxford, and some drama: an interesting weekend on the Bay filled with wind (sometimes), storms, sailboat racing, and more.