DECK LOG The "Time" in MariTIME I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart's core. "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Buder Yeats I spent my summers on my family's island in Georgian Bay in Lake Huron. We went everywhere by beautiful wooden boats of all sizes-but we did not sail. When I was about rwelve, my cousin Roger bought a little Sunfish and took me out, so excited for my first sail. We'd barely started sailing when the boom came swinging across and hit me in the head, tossing me in the water-my auspicious introduction to sailing. As spring sporadically blooms around me, as summer beckons, as I sit working but looking out my office window at the boats along the Hudson, I am flooded with many happy memories of time spent on the water. Many, many years later, as a career woman in her rwenties, just returned from living abroad, I went to visit my parents at their home on St. Simon's Island. On my first day back, as I was walking along the beach in the evening, a handsome young man stationed at the nearby naval base sailed up in his Sunfish and took m e for a sail; I knew enough to duck the boom. Even now, I can feel the heat of the Georgia sun and the cool of the breeze in the evening ... and the sand in everything. And see the little sand pipers everywhere. Sitting here in my office, I make a promise to myself to get out on the water, because in Sunset with Sea Oats small boats I can best by Val Sandell, Signature Member ofASMA relive the happiness of boating and sailing through my life. I have made this promise before. If I don't keep it very well anymore, it's because there are so many opportunities calling to me. The summer season brings all the wonderful maritime h eritage festivals, the tall ship events and antique boat shows, conferences and symposiums, and marine art exhibitions. Don't we love the marine art shows most particularly? So we, who treasure our maritime heritage, can look on the water and remember why we do. We can get ourselves out there, support our local maritime festivals , and maybe even spring for a painting or a book. C heck the Sea History calendar on page 49 for an enticing listing of possibilities, or simply leaf through these pages. And perhaps while you are at some lovely summer event, where the lines of a classic vessel and the smell of the salt air on the water transport you to another ship, another day, you will write me a few lines and share.
-Burchenal Green, President burchenalgreen@seahistory.org 4
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