If you cast our eyes down the page to the left, you will see an Amazon 
Store widget. Yes, Messing about In Sailboats is entering the big world of eCommerce.
Before you start cries of “Sell-out”, I am doing it for a good cause. I have created an Amazon affiliate store featuring the CDs from the Top Sailing Songs list and my favorite sailing books. My plan is to donate all the affiliate proceeds to charity.
Here’s where you come in. I am looking for suggestions on who to donate the proceeds to. Please let me know any sailing related charities you think would be worthy recipients of the undoubted millions this venture is going to raise. As I recently lost two friends to cancer that is one area I am particularly interested in.
Next year, I will IPO! Watch out Bono, here come the sailing bloggers!
Yes, I do know of a worthy sailing cause. Association for Maritime Preservation. Its a non profit that is just starting up and it helping to preserve, rebuild and protect historic wooden vessels. Its first project is the Schooner J&E Riggin in Rockland Maine who was due to undergo a rebuild for the first time in 30 years in the next couple of year, however she was vandalized this winter and undergoing repairs this winter. Association for Maritime Preservation has just started fundraising this winter.