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As sail maker he held franchises for, among others, Horizon Sails, North Sails and Doyle Sails. Curtis was inducted into the National Sailing Hall of Fame in 2013. [ 7 ]
Full Sail University is a private for-profit university in Winter Park, Florida. [4] It was formerly a recording studio in Ohio named Full Sail Productions [5] and Full Sail Center for the Recording Arts. [6] The school moved to Florida in 1980, began offering bachelor's degrees in 2005, [7] and began offering online degrees in 2007. [8]
The Sailing Museum and National Sailing Hall of Fame is a nonprofit educational organization that promotes sailing and racing by recognizing individuals who have contributed to the sport, highlighting sailing's contribution to the American culture; and demonstrating its value as a hands-on tool for teaching math and science. The organization ...
Pinkney's voyage around the world lasted 22 months. He traveled approximately 27,000 miles (43,000 km). [11] He departed from Boston on August 5, 1990, sailing first to Bermuda, then along the eastern South American coastline, across the Atlantic Ocean to Cape Town, South Africa, across the Indian Ocean to Hobart, Tasmania, across the South Pacific Ocean, around Cape Horn, and up the eastern ...
A hall, wall, or walk of fame is a list of individuals, achievements, or other entities, usually chosen by a group of electors, to mark their excellence or fame in their field. In some cases, these halls of fame consist of actual halls or museums that enshrine the honorees with sculptures, plaques, and displays of memorabilia and general ...
The American Sailboat Hall of Fame is a defunct hall of fame honoring 26 production sailboats built-in the United States. [1] [2] The hall of fame was established in 1994 by Sail America, a trade association for the U.S. sailing industry, to recognize ingenuity in designs by American boat builders. [1] [2] The last year of induction was 2004. [3]
The Ensign was inducted into the now-defunct Sail America American Sailboat Hall of Fame in 2002. In honoring the design the hall cited, "She is rarely the belle of the ball. In fact, some hotshots have even been known to call Ensigns 'tubby' as they go zipping by in their dripping-wet performance dinghies.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]