Blogs from Rhode Island, United States, North America - page 14

For those of you who don't know this, Newport, Rhode Island is the sailing capital of the United States...and for good reason! On any given day, but especially between Memorial Day and Labor Day, Narragansett Bay is filled with sailboats of all sizes. It is the birthplace of the legendary American J-class boats and one of the few places in the world that these mighty America's Cup sloops from the 1930s can still be sighted. With their enormous sail area, they are easy to spot gliding majestically across the bay. Labor Day weekend, we went sailing in the Bay with our friends Leo and Sparky (Frank). The marina at the naval base here in Newport, rents Rhodes 19s and Shields 30s. The graceful Shields are always my prefered choice, although it must be pointed out that ... read more

so all my entries were deleted because this website crashed and everything was lost... so if anyone who reads this if you saved them or printed them can you keep them all. this sucks so bad!! toora... read more

About Time in New England We made it to the Hudson River, last Friday. 31 locks means a lot of slimmy ropes to hold! The Erie Canal was a good way to get started, as you really don’t have to worry about weather, or tides. Taking the canal through the mountains provided some very spectacular scenery, especially “The Flight”, the last few locks before the Hudson River. The first night on the Hudson we stayed at Castleton on the Hudson, bringing memorys back from our last trip. Castleton is a boat club, where many boats put their masts up. In Castleton, you use their facilities, and put your own mast up. Boats leave their mast supports here, for their return trip. We stayed on a mooring ball in Castleton for only $5.00. Our mast was ... read more

friday the 5 international staff had to move out of the place we had been staying in "kimball lodge" and we had to move into this scary ass cottage called the "sanctrum" and it looked nice but it was dirty and full of cobwebs and hundreds of spiders and it looked like a house from a old horror movie. so we definatly thought we were gonna be murdered! we didnt though thank god!! anyways friday night after all the kids left and stuff we didnt really do all that much. me, charlie, kate & stacy we to a pub called the cove and got some sweet cheeseburgers for dinner and hung around and watched people sing karkoke or a bit then me and charlie left and we went back to camp where the "mexicans" were and ... read more

best weekend so far i cant remember what my last entry was or where i was up to so il just start from friday. friday was the last day or training week at camp which ment all the local counsellors and CIT's got to go home which obviously left just us 5 internationals and charlie so friday night we were gonna just go somewhere for tea and coz there was 6 of us 4 of us had to squeeze into the back of charlies car and it hurt so bad and i had a massive dead leg, but we were gonna go to dinner than wal-mart but for some reason we kinda got lost i think so we decided to go to providence so we went there which took like 2 hours because we were ages ... read more