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Baby's boat the silver moon/Sailing in the sky, Sailing o'er the sea of sleep,/While the clouds go by. [Refrain:] Sail baby, sail,/Out upon that sea Only don't forget to sail/Back again to me. Baby's fishing for a dream,/Fishing near and far, His line a silver moonbeam is,/His bait a silver star. [Repeat Refrain] [5] [6] [7]
The Chicago Yacht Club was founded in 1875 to encourage and promote the sport of yachting. In 1898, the first Race to Mackinac was held. In 1900, the club obtained its first clubhouse, the Argo clubhouse located at the Illinois Central Pier #3. Chicago Yacht Club's original Chicago to Mackinac Trophy dates to 1906.
Pinkney was named Chicago Yacht Club’s Yachtsman of the Year in 1992. [17] [18] In 1999, he was named one of the Chicagoans of the Year by Chicago magazine. [19] Pinkney is a member of the National Sailing Hall of Fame. [9] He was awarded The America and the Sea Award by Mystic Seaport Museum on October 26, 2022. [20]
From left, Kendrick Walker, 12 of Southfield, and Eli Boyce, 13 of Farmington Hills, work at securing the sail of a sailboat at the Belle Isle Boat House in Detroit on Wednesday, July 17, 2024.
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The first Tall Ships' race was held in 1956. It was a race of 20 of the world's remaining large sailing ships. The race was from Torquay, Devon to Lisbon, and was meant to be a last farewell to the era of the great sailing ships. Public interest was so intense, however, that race organizers founded the Sail Training International association to ...
The Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac is a 333-mile (289 nmi; 536 km) annual yacht race starting in Lake Michigan off Chicago, Illinois, and ending in Lake Huron off Mackinac Island, Michigan. It is hosted and managed by the Chicago Yacht Club. The "Mac" (as it is known) was first run in 1898 and is the oldest annual freshwater distance race ...
The Chicago Maritime Museum is a maritime society and museum dedicated to the study and memorialization of Chicago's maritime traditions. [1] The museum's webpage asserts that Lake Michigan and the Chicago River were key factors in Chicago's growth toward status as a world-class city, and pays tribute to Congress for granting lake frontage in 1818 to the infant state of Illinois. [2]