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Here are the 2006 Summer Sailstice Winners!!

Anson Stookey of Middletown, RI will be
sailing Summer Sailstice 2007 in the BVI!

New England sailors score again with Anson Stookey of Middletown, CT taking home the free one-week Moorings charter in the BVI for Summer Sailstice 2006. Having sailed his whole life and having been part of Summer Sailstice before, 2006 was the first year Anson and family decided to actually sign up.  It was well worth it since he and family can now look forward to celebrating Summer Sailstice 2007 in the tropics.

Of course there were loads of other terrific prizes and winners all over the globe picked up some pretty cool stuff.  Some of the coolest prizes included the Hunter Xcite sailing dinghy won by Jerry Schlip sailing out of City Island, NY, the one-week 'Fast Track to Cruising' course from Off shore sailing won by Pat Zeabart sailing from Prairie Creek Resevoir in Indiana, a terrific summer boat toy, a red Hobie Pursuit kayak, was won by Ed Benevent sailing his Hunter 34 on Lake Erie in Pennsylvania.  Another great boat, an Achilles inflatable tender, was won by Dave Kenelig sailing his Fortuna 37 out of Santa Cruz.

Now we also had lots of smaller prizes including subscriptions to many of the best sailing publications, books from International Marine, new organic boat soap from Latitude 43.  West Marine added more sailing gear - foulies, a waterproof, handheld VHF, a Lifesling and also awarded 50 free Summer Sailstice t-shirts!  If you have a look at the full prize list you'll see numerous companies contributed a eclectic list of prizes sure to add to any sailor's collection of sailing toys and products. Overall we awarded over 200 prizes from almost 60 companies who generously came aboard to support your 'random act of sailing'. 

Sailors signed up in 49 states - all but North Dakota.  Next year we're determined to find some sailors in North Dakota who'll join us.  For the second year a group of sailors in China at the Shanghai Boat and Yacht Club joined us as did a few more sailors in Europe, the Caribbean and across the oceans.

The almost complete list of winners will appear below and we're again thankful to the people in so many companies who simply love to sail themselves and support a holiday celebrating the fun of it all. Summer Sailstice gives sailing businesses a chance to make everyone a winner while giving us all another great reason to get together sail, party, barbecue and just have fun on the solstice.

Have a look at the Locations List page  to see who was sailing and where this year or see how some people celebrated by reading  'Sailstice Tales'.  You can of course email your own Sailstice Tale with pictures to: john@summersailstice.com .  We're planning ahead for next year and hope you will put Summer Sailstice on your club, class or personal sailing calendar for 2006. Summer Sailstice will be held the weekend of June 23/24 with the actual solstice on Thursday, June 21st. We hope you find a few great sailing days between now and Summer Sailstice 2006 and are already looking forward to a terrific 2006 sailing season.

We're planning ahead for next year and hope you will put Summer Sailstice on your club, class or personal sailing calendar for 2006. Summer Sailstice will be held the weekend of June 17/18 with the actual solstice on Wednesday(hump day), June 21st. We hope you find a few great sailing days between now and Summer Sailstice 2006 and are already looking forward to a terrific 2006 sailing season.