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From: Mabel Wagner <mabswag@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:26 PM
Subject: Fwd: Trellis Bay Sailing Rally -- Brochure Attached
To: "jwright @surfbvi.com" <jwright@surfbvi.com>

Just keeping you up to date.... Hope you are OK.  ...Mabel
Mabel Wagner


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From: Bruce G. Potter <bpotter@irf.org>
Date: Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:21 AM
Subject: Trellis Bay Sailing Rally -- Brochure Attached
To: Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism Group <sustainable-tourism@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: Caribbean Yachting Tourism Group <mbt@yahoogroups.com>, Zbyszek Turkiewicz <Zbyszek.Turkiewicz@yahoo.com>, Mabel Wagner <mabswag@gmail.com>, Judith Ann Towle <jtowle@irf.org>



Five hundred Polish sailors on multiple visits to the British Virgin Islands. . . . . with a tiny footprint -- sounds like sustainable tourism  -- except for the jet plane travel, anyway. . . . . 

The attached brochure announces the Second Wagner Sailing Rally in the BVI, which commemorates Władysław (Wladek) Wagner, the "first Polish yachtsman," who left Poland in 1932 to sail around the world and who ended up eventually settling in Trellis Bay, Beef Island Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, where he built a boatyard and marine railway.

His widow, Mabel Wagner, now resident in Winter Park, Florida, has memorialized Wagner's achievements with her autobiography "Lest I Forget," which concentrates on the Wagner's period of living in and developing Trellis Bay in the BVI. The book can still be ordered for $35 directly from Mrs. Wagner by check at:

Mabel Wagner
2539 Leeward Way
Winter Park, FL  32792
USA


In addition to its picture of early, truly sustainable yachting tourism in the Eastern Caribbean, Lest I Forget and a previous biography of Wagner stimulated new generations (and veterans from past generations) of Polish and Polish-descended yachtsmen to hold a global rally at Trellis Bay, Tortola in January, 2012. This was so much enjoyed by all that a second rally is now planned for February 2015. (For more details about the rally, contact <Zbyszek.Turkiewicz@yahoo.com>. 

Bruce Potter


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From: "Judith Ann Towle" <jtowle@irf.org>
Subject: Trellis Bay Sailing Rally Brochure Attached
Date: June 25, 2014 9:28:23 AM EDT



 
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