SAILING SHORTS: Short Films about Sailing is now on Patreon!

by Emilyadventure travel, Boat Hobo, Boat People, Buying your first sailboat, Classic Plastics, Living Aboard, Sailboats, Sailing on a budgetPosted on Comments are Disabled

Support SAILING SHORTS on Patreon! Experimental short films chronicling east coast sailors and adventures!

First up meet Anna & George Jordan- a cape cod fishing family that salvaged and restored a 76-foot steel schooner.

Next is Eddie & Dean. Teen brothers who refit a boat with the help of their parents to “sail the world” in lieu of college.

If you enjoyed these videos please join the SAILING SHORTS patreon for only $5 a month @ www.patreon.com/ADHDSAILOR

MASSIVE UPDATE : portfolio, yacht broker, & more

by EmilyBoat Hobo, Boat People, Boat shopping, Buying your first sailboat, Classic Plastics, new sails & canvas, Plastic boats for salePosted on Comments are Disabled

Many exciting thing abound like the dark side of sailing culture, yacht broker wars, a new brand and website launch, and a portfolio update so anyone can catch up on my latest sailing articles from SAIL magazine and more.

The dynamic duo is back again. That’s right, I am repping for Melanie Neale at Sunshine Cruising Yachts from now until forever. Hit me up at emily@suncruising.com for your yacht broker needs. Coastal North Carolina & Long Island, NY are my current areas.

Massive portfolio update is here: YACHTING JOURNALIST
articles from towndock, spin sheet, prop talk, SAIL mag

And last but not least, coming soon…

You can donate to the BOAT GIRLS FUND here

Buy a Sail Cover from Me! EVOLUTION New Sails & Canvas

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Buy a sail cover, mains’l sail pack system, or new sails from me! Now repping for Evolution Sails out of the Chesapeake. Contact me Emily : dinghydreams@gmail.com or drop my name if you’re out of my area!

POV : I Measure Your Boat!

Also this fun article for SAIL Magazine!

Jerry Latell, loft managing owner & I makin’ me a new jib in Deltaville, VA

https://www.sailmagazine.com/diy/ready-to-fly-a-new-sail

Sailing into Towndock.net

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Courtesy of Towndock.net, 1963 sailing vessel Teal arrives in the harbor for some much needed refinishing.

Genoa, tri-radial by Evolution Sails / Latell & Ailsworth Sailmakers, HQ, Sailloft & Repair, Deltaville, VA ! Made in the USA

Cross-cut mainsail, Precision Sailloft; HQ British Columbia; Canada sail loft in Shenzhen; China 2021

Mainsail Track, Tidesmarine, Hi-density extruded teflon, low-friction mainsail system 2021

Vintage Hydrovane, Self-steering wind vane; British Columbia. Furlex roller furling

Boat hull/design; Tripp 29; Tripp-Lentsch, built by Amsterdam Shipyard in the Netherlands, 1963

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Largest Local SAIL Loft on East Coast!

by EmilyBoat shopping, Buying your first sailboat, Classic Plastics, Guest Posts, Living Aboard, Restoration, SailboatsPosted on Comments are Disabled
latell ailsworth sails deltaville, VA evolution sails New Zealand

Take a look inside the magic that happens when community, career, passion, and a conscious approach to capitalism collide! Meet the literal sailmakers of Latell Ailsworth Sails, a trade that employs both traditional sailing skills and the latest yachting industry technology. In a marine industry moving more and more toward globalization and remote consulting–Latell Ailsworth is a brand and business that prides itself on it’s partnership overseas, as well as a strong local and regional East Coast presence. Is it any wonder Latell Ailsworth Sails, of Deltaville, VA–a small yachting center on the southern Chesapeake Bay–is a division of a Kiwi Company?

The kiwi’s may be a small island country but has a strong yachting history, along with modern democratic socialist practices. It’s capital, Auckland–is known as the City of Sails. In fact, its the first place I ever sailed and where I got into this whole sailing mess to begin with! My first day sail ever was in NZ (fun fact: the letter “Z” is pronounced “Zed” in N Zed). Latell Ailsworth overseas partner is Evolution Sails, a New Zealand sailmaking parent company.

I loved New Zealand and have pretty much just been trying to get back there ever since. By yacht of course. I told Latell I’d get the Evolution logo tattooed on me (which he did not endorse…yet) as a testament to my commitment endorsing this opportunity to low key partner Evolution Sails–I mean maybe the parent company wants to sponsor my return to Aoteaora (New Zealand in Maouri, literally translated to Land of the Long White Cloud).

Now I’m day dreaming again.

Sometimes it feels like I have a goal, I chase it, I get the opportunity, and then I have to do the actual work and the entire time I’m just dreaming of the next thing to chase. So before I get back to New Zealand I’ve got to just get back to my boat eight hours east of my current locale, and well, go finish my new Genoa furling headsail a few hours south of my boat, and then bring it to my boat, bend it on, photograph it and send it in on time for the deadline to SAIL Magazine to meet my contract for the October 2022 Issue and the Annapolis International Sailboat show.

Ha, and then sail my boat down of course. To where I have to finish refitting her and launch some entrepreneurial endeavors.

Can I pull it off? I usually do, in some way or another. It always works out in the end.

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Partnership Opportunity

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I’m pleased to announce that I’ve partnered with SAIL Magazine, hailing from Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, on the east coast of the U.S. and Latell Ailsworth Sails, a division of Evolution Sails, a premier sail loft in Deltaville, VA, a small yachting center serving the Mid-Atlantic U.S.

The forthcoming article and project, The Latell (R)Evolution will be complete for the October 2022 Issue of SAIL Magazine, and featured at the 2022 Annapolis International Sailboat Show.

A huge thank you to Jerry Latell from Evolution and Adam Cort from SAIL Magazine for this opportunity.

Previous sponsors and current collaborations are listed below! Thank you to all the companies and publications for believing in my work. Stay tuned for more.

“ALL IS WELL” a Short Film by Emily Greenberg

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“ALL IS WELL” A FREE short film by Emily Greenberg
features ‘All is Well,’ a poem by Henry Scott Collins.

Follow the Death of a Yogi—a Jewish grandfathers attempts Sanskrit + the growing legacy he left behind continues to flourish at his “celebration of life” in the Catskill Mountains of New York.
Many thanks to all who made this possible.

In loving Memory of Rob Greenberg,
1933-2021.

SUPPORT THE ARTS!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION!
PayPal: Emilyf.greenberg@gmail.com
Venmo: Emily-Greenberg-25

SUPPORT THE ARTS!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION!
PayPal: Emilyf.greenberg@gmail.com
Venmo: Emily-Greenberg-25

Single-Handed

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Back in February I hosted YouTube sailing sensation Sam Holmes on my boat in Maryland, and introduced him to record-holder and arctic sailor Matt Rutherford. Then I structured, scheduled, and shot this interview for them.

You know what they say, keep your friends close but keep your enemies closer…

In an alternate reality we were all more than just frenemies…

Pass Over

by EmilySailing, Solo sailor girl, travel journalPosted on Comments are Disabled

I was sailing engineless down the northeast coast in winter when my grandfather was put on hospice. I knew he’d want me to keep going with my sailing hustle…

engines sailing New York sailing

My grandfather was an OG hustler. It’s where I got it from. He could sell literal ideas. His first self directed gig was during the Great Depression as a kid in Brooklyn. His grandmother ran a card room and he would sit under the table with his little brother, Donnie, and collect any chips that were dropped. During adolescence, he kept some raw dough in his pocket from the neighboring bakery and sold “feels” to his schoolmates. The claim? They felt like tits.

His father, Irving, spent too much time at the races and later his brother would join him there–meanwhile the three of them were supposed to be running a family business and my grandmother was pregnant still back in Germany. My grandma kept my pop’s shoes as a promise that he would come back. They met after she had escaped communist Germany and made it into Berlin. He was stationed there in the Air Force. My grandma was working as a cocktail waitress and didn’t know English, but pop knew some German.

Pop’s job in the service at that time was in the mailroom. He would take the train to France and bring back hashish and then push it to his comrades through the internal mail delivery system. “He was like the mayor,” my grandma said.

Back in the states now with his young family, he worked for Kraft Foods. Driving the company car one time on the famous Tappan Ze Bridge overlooking New York City, he crashed. It almost all ended right there.

He told me once that the pressure from all the hustle, after all that time, made him an angry man. And that he let that anger smolder for years until something inside of him had to change. And it did. Though he was never perfect, nor did he claim to be.

Later, he moved on to sell insurance. And eventually, industrial supplies. Which would drive him into retirement, on a mountain, where he lived the life of a yogi and died a legend.

*some details in this story may be incomplete*

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