Tag Archives: Sailing

The Lonely Sea and the Sky

By Robin Bates | Published: August 2, 2014

The spirit of Maryland’s overnight Governor’s Cup sailboat race is captured in John Masefield’s well known “Sea Fever.”

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I Must Down to the Seas Again

By Robin Bates | Published: June 11, 2011

I can imagine my student sailor liking John Masefield’s “Sea Fever.” She knows what it’s like to give oneself over to “the gull’s way and the whale’s way” and how the wind can feel like a whetted knife.

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