Summer Sailstice Announces 2010 3-Day Sailing Holiday Weekend

10:20 PM Sat 12 Jun 2010 GMT

'Summer Sailstice - everyone finds a different way to celebrate' .

American sailors who want to celebrate the longest day of summer by sailing for the weekend, are solving the June holiday weekend problem sailors by asking to be excused from work to extend Sailstice holiday through the solstice. Founder of the Summer Sailstice, John Arndt, writes: You know what's wrong with June? There's no three-day weekend to sail! For the 10th Annual Summer Sailstice, a global holiday dedicated to sailing, the actual solstice occurs on Monday June 21st, immediately following Summer Sailstice weekend. To allow all sailors everywhere to live by the rule: 'It is better to be lost at ...

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by Ken Quant