Come Sail Away

Can’t afford a yacht? Build your own.

If you thought racing yachts was strictly the province of Fortune 500 CEOs, the salty dogs at the Sun City Model Yacht Club would beg to differ.

Yes, model yachts—miniature versions of the real thing.

The Sun City Model Yacht Club started nearly 13 years ago in the Sun City community, an upscale 55-and-over retirement community in nearby Bluffton. The group sails two types of boats: an East Coast 12 Meter (5 feet long by 6 feet high, weighing 26 pounds) and a Soling One Meter (1 foot long by 4 feet high, weighing 10 pounds).

The club has 32 members and sails four days a week on Lake Somerset, competing in spring, summer and fall series. In addition, the club hosts two regattas.


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Category: Aug/Sep 09, The Magazine
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BLUE Ocean Film Festival

Hoping to inspire change, a global film festival celebrating everything ocean arrives in Savannah.

An international celebration of the world’s oceans is landing in the Creative Coast, and conservation is at center stage. The BLUE Ocean Film Festival, which showcases movies devoted to ocean life, will attract dozens of the planet’s top ocean filmmakers to Savannah in hopes of inspiring their peers and the public.

Yet what is now a global event began with a simple lunch between three people: a legendary filmmaker, his wife and a woman with an inkling of an idea for a film festival like no other.


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Category: Jun/Jul 09, The Magazine
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