Sailing

The goal of "Sailing" is mainly just to travel the world, but if you'd like you can take photos of it with any sailboats you happen to see.  Be creative!  :-)

(Be sure to hide the tracking code when taking any pics with the trackable).

​(Also, please don't "collect" this trackable, as that will take it out of circulation and spoil the fun.  PLEASE do not take this travel bug unless you'll faithfully log it and take it to another cache.  I can't tell you how many trackables I've released which have gone missing or stagnant, often after just being in one cache.  Please respect the purpose of travel bugs / trackables.  Thank you).

Continuing my theme of naming most of my trackables after songs, "Sailing" is the 2nd single from Christopher Cross' debut album.  Released on June 15, 1980, the song reached #1 on the U.S. charts two and a half months later.  The song won three Grammy Awards:  Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist.

From Wikipedia:

"Cross has said in interviews that the song's inspiration was his friendship with an older friend from his high school, Al Glasscock, who would take him sailing as a teenager, just to get away from the trials and tribulations of being a teenager. Glasscock functioned as a surrogate older brother during a tough time for Cross emotionally. Although Cross lost touch with Glasscock, 'The Howard Stern Show' in April 1995 reunited Cross with Glasscock, after 28 years. Cross acknowledged on the show that his sailing trips with Glasscock had been the inspiration for the song. After that reunion, Cross sent Glasscock a copy of the platinum record he earned for selling more than five million copies of 'Sailing.'"

As for the tracking tag itself, I won it as a door prize at the monthly "Pinellas Meet, Eat & Greet" event (GC9H8A2) on 17 Nov 2021.  Figured I'd go ahead and create a new trackable with it, and let it start traveling.