The 2006 Calendar stock has arrived just in time for Christmas. This year’s Sharon Green, Ultimate Sailing Calendar is better than ever. Per standard, Sharon focuses on grand prix sailing events around the globe. For the past 25 years she has been the sole provider for the photography in her calendars. This year Sharon opened the work to a few of her esteemed colleagues, Jon Nash, Tim Wright, and Carlo Borlenghi. Once again Sharon Green and Windward Productions have managed to publish an exciting and beautiful portfolio of race sailing at it’s best.

Another top seller is our Tall Ships Calendar, by Chad Thoza. Chad is a maritime enthusiast who researches, photographs, and sails tall ships as often as possible. Each month showcases a vessel, with a beautiful photo and write-up. The preface for this calendar also includes contact information to the American Sail Training Association, the main sponsor’s for the Tall Ships Challenge. The city of Muskegon has hosted The Tall Ships Challenge twice in the past. Be sure to keep an eye out this next summer, as a couple of tall ships will be visiting our harbor.

A favorite calendar of mine is the 2006 Best of Dr. Crash, put out by Sailing World magazine. Each month we get a glimpse of the uglier side of sailing. The images for the calendar are compiled from the stockpiles of many of sailing’s best photographers. The write up on the back of the calendar states it best, “If your most embarrassing sailing moment didn’t make the pages of this years calendar, don’t despair-the doctor is taking new patients all the time.”

Sail Magazine and Cruising World have both put out beautiful pictorial calendars with the ocean cruiser in mind. It is a tough call between the two calendars, as both contain images of envious attraction. My call, get both.

With more local attractions in mind there is the 2006 Great Lakes Lighthouses calendar. South Haven, Holland, and Grand Traverse Bay are just a couple of the closer lighthouses highlighted this year.

And lastly the Chicago based, and focused, Boatingshots calendar. Boatingshots was established 2 years ago when photographer Richard Chandler teamed with sailing & racing enthusiast Sam Sansome. For the second year in a row the pair have produced a calendar showcasing “Lake Michigan’s racers, both on Lake Michigan and on the road (e.g. Key West).” This year’s calendar also provides a comprehensive “listing of major sailing events from the US and around the world (races, regattas, training courses and boat shows, etc.)” called the Schedular. A handful of Torresen Marine customers, and an employee, have graced the calendar’s cover and pages these past two years. A couple of our hull paint jobs are also on display (last year’s February and this year’s December shots). So, be sure to check one out. Who knows, you may be featured.

As the Torresen Marine Ship’s Store is open Saturdays year round, be sure to stop in and check out the calendar selection. Not only are the all aforementioned calendars on the shelf, but they can be purchased directly at www.torresen.com.

Happy Holidays to all!

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