Chicago; the city of tall ships and tall buildings. After our visit the last week of July, 2007, we learned it is also the city of great steakhouses, deep pan pizza, Cubs baseball and hotdogs at Wrigley field, and oddly enough, a city that hosts the "Houndstooth Bar", an Alabama Football Memorabilia restaurant/bar, right in the middle of Wriggleville.
Click here to see the Chicago weekend pictures. http://picasaweb.google.com/cstewartphotos/TallShipsAndTallBuildingsChicago
Jimmy Jones, one of my old highschool buddies, and I re-acquainted with each other after way too many years, and to our surprise, we found out that we still had a lot in common. Our wives act like twins, we still love Alabama Football and Baseball, and Jimmy still has salt in his veins and a love for boating that I knew about even when we were in High School. Our first yacht was a mail-order canvas canoe kit that we built in highschool. We took our wives on a long weekend to Chicago and stayed in a quaint little vintage hotel, the Talbott (built in 1927) and since refurbished to a nice 4 star boutique hotel right in the middle of the shopping district on Rush Street and Delaware. It is one block from the magnificent mile on Michigan Avenue, and just blocks from Navy Pier. There we saw two of the City's tall ships, the Windy, a 148 foot four masted schooner, and the Windy II, a 148 foot barque rigg. I love the history of the old sailing ships!
Monday, August 6, 2007
Monday, May 14, 2007
Got the T-shirt
Below are a series of sailing T-shirts, mostly from the Dauphin Island Races. Recognize any of these?
http://picasaweb.google.com/cstewartphotos/GotTheTShirt
http://picasaweb.google.com/cstewartphotos/GotTheTShirt
Friday, May 11, 2007
Photo Album of Dauphin Island Race 2007
Click here for photo album aboard the Briar Patch in the 2007 Dauphin Island Race.
http://picasaweb.google.com/cstewartphotos/DauphinIslandRace2007
http://picasaweb.google.com/cstewartphotos/DauphinIslandRace2007
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