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Celebrate Buzzards Bay
Logs of the Dead Pirates Society - Book Signing
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Proceeds from the weekend's sailing events will benefit:
The Coalition for Buzzards Bay
Women's Center of New Bedford
YMCA Camp Massasoit Sailing Program
Community Resources Network
Massachusetts Maritime Academy Scholarship Program
Sail for Buzzards Bay - Friday, July 28, 2000Welcome six 12 Meter America's Cup yachts to New Bedford, after a race from Newport, RI to Buzzards Bay, MA.
12 Meter Spectacle - Friday, July 28, 2000
Parade of sailboats into New Bedford Harbor
Dockside party and entertainment and
For the first time ever in New Bedford, six 12 Meters will be open to the public.
Day-long 12 Meter Yacht Races - Saturday, July 29, 2000
Sail and race aboard one of the six 12 Meter America's Cup yachts.
Pull for the Bay - Saturday, July 29, 2000 The Whaling City Rowing Club and Buzzards Bay Kayak are teaming up to sponsor a 3.5 mile, multi-class boat race on Buzzards Bay. All proceeds will benefit The Coalition for Buzzards Bay.
Bake for the Bay - Saturday, July 29, 2000Outdoor lobster bake featuring cocktails and hors d'oeuvres, local shellfish and live steel band music.
Swim Buzzards Bay Day - Sunday, July 30, 20007th Annual, 1.2 mile open water swim. This is southeastern Massachusetts' largest environmental awareness event and is the primary fundraiser in support of the Coalition for Buzzards Bay.
Visit www.savebuzzardsbay.org for registration forms, waivers and pledge sheets or call (508) 999-6363.
The 12 Meter regatta is sponsored by The Curmudgeons, a local group of boating enthusiasts.
Logs of the Dead Pirates Society
A Schooner Adventure Around Buzzards Bay
By Randall Peffer
Book Signing Schedule:
Sheridan House Publishers
A pocket of salt water tucked into southern Massachusetts, Buzzards Bay is a place where "swamp yankee" traditions still hold sway and the ghosts of Indians and 17th century explorers, pirates, and revolutionaries rise from every quarter. Herman Melville and Henry James, Grover Cleveland and John F. Kennedy are among the many historical figures who have left their mark on the area. Among the boats cruising the idyllic and largely unspoiled bay, the research schooner SARAH ABBOT--crewed by high school students studying marine biology--sails each summer with Captain Randall Peffer at the helm.
A tale of exploration and adventure, Logs of the Dead Pirates Society is the absorbing account of a routine cruise that has become a rite of passage and a deeply personal quest for Peffer. This seemingly ordinary cruise stands, in the words of Joseph Conrad, as one of "those voyages that seem to illustrations of life."
About the Author:
Randall Peffer's nonfiction narrative Watermen won the Baltimore Sun's Critics Choice Award. He is the author of several travel guidebooks published by National Geographic and Lonely Planet, and has been a regular contributor to National Geographic, Smithsonian, SAIL, and WoodenBoat. Peffer is a licensed captain and a literature instructor at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
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