Music to sail by

Due to the lack of sailing (trip to Adelaide and crappy weather on return) I thought I'd share my list of favourite songs to listen to whilst sailing. The list is by no means exhaustive, nor is it an indication of my musical preferences as I believe, quite passionately actually, that ALL music is valid - anyway, enough of that - here's what's in my iPod under the heading 'sailing songs' I'd love to upload them as mp3s so you can hear them too, but, alas, I haven't worked out how to do that yet!

Southern Cross - Crosby,Stills and Nash

Wooden Ships - Crosby, Stills and Nash

Errol - Australian Crawl

Sloop JohnB - Beach Boys

Sailing - Christopher Cross

Orinoco Flow - Enya
Great Southern Land - Icehouse
Sailing - Rod Stewart
6months in a leaky boat - Split Enz
Beautiful Day - U2
Ship of Fools - World Party
Songs You Know by Heart - Jimmy Buffet (compulsory for sailing and quite good fun)
cheeseburger in paradise
son of a son of a sailor
a pirate looks at forty
changes in latitudes
why don't we get drunk
boat drinks
Love Shack - B52's (nothing to do with sailing but I like it)
A Case Of You - Joni Mitchell (again, not a sailing song but I love it to death and hey, it's my blog)
Carmina Burana - Carl Orff (just coz it's great LOUD)
The entire cd Nouveau Flamenco - Ottmar Liebert (because I am the only person I know who doesn't hate it - my family have frisbee'd two copies but I always manage to replace it)
Sailing By - Band of the Welsh Guards
Sea Shanties - Band of HM Royal Marines


Those last two? Ha.....didn't know I used to play principle trombone in a brass band, did you? Anyway, IF I ever work out how to upload music I shall, just for your enjoyment.
Meanwhile, let's hope the weather improves soon!
'Til then, fair winds and all that :)

Just popping out for a coffee......

Today Phil (of Phil and Tina (Mardi) fame) and I took Sirocco north to Mindarie. It's a lovely little trip, only an hour or so away and the easterlies did us proud, so it was a delightful sail. We could have decided to drive there, but with petrol at over $1.60 a litre, I think sailing there was much more environmentally friendly - in fact, I think I'll call it my "offset" against my flight to Adelaide next week!
We arrived at the little Marina, came alongside, hopped off, had a super cup of coffee at the 'Dome' then sailed home. What fun! Talk about arriving in style :) Here's the photographic evidence