Sailboats Anyone? FDC? Show Me Yours

I love the water and the visual of sailboats on it. Thought I'd start the topic off with this just EXCELLENT FDC I just found... signed too!

Nice Dennis Conner sig. (Time heals all wounds.)

Here is a nice set from NZ, 1951 semis:

Those are really pretty! Here's another nice one - guess more tall ship than regatta.

2 stamps from Israel's 1958 Navigation set....

Rubbing it in :





Yachting :





The Famous Bermuda Error :





Diego Suarez :

We have dual nationality - so here is one from each country.

Ron and Eunice.

Here's a couple stamps. Sorry for the crooked scan.



Lucky

Always something new to see,
it's amazing.
A great geography lesson, as each stamp is posted
I try and visualise the country and where it lies on the globe
and what the flag looks like.
It's harder than you would think.

Lets see if we can't find some more.
Where's Gussyboy when we need him?
These are beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
I tend to do what Rod does... in terms of geography, but never thought about visualizing the flag too.

The flag is the hard part,
Tristan de Cunha, the pimple in the ocean
is reasonably easy to recall due to its remoteness,
the flag has two obvious bits, the jack of the union
and a sailboat, that's the best I can do.

A stamp with an image that any young
boy could get lost in imagination of the romance of adventure..

Here's a couple more.





Lucky

Oh... Capt Jack would be drooling.... Those are glorious. More anyone?

Here's another.

Lucky

Nice stamps. Thanks to all for posting. Thumbing through mine, mostly coming across tall ships on US issues. May post images just for completeness, but wow! Some cool things to see here...

In 1534, Jacques Cartier made his first voyage to Canada. In 1984, a fleet of tall ships sailed to Canada as part of the anniversary celebrations. A stamp was issued to commemorate the event.



There is a Unitrade listed plate variety for this stamp - position 2 on every sheet has a flaw at the rightmost porthole, and this stamp is known as the "double anchor hole" variety.



Hooray for catalogues that list plate varieties! I'm still hoping that someday the U.S. will catch up - I'm sure there must be a huge number of this kind of variety on American stamps, given that there have been over 5000 stamps issued.

Ryan