Your Favorite Sailing Music

What’s your favorite sailing, rowing or boating song? We asked that question on Twitter and received the following artist names and song titles.

Note: You can suggest a song to add to this list by commenting below, sending a tweet to @woodenboat on Twitter or an e-mail to blog [at] spauldingcenter [dot] org.

Artist, Song Title, Contributor(s)

• Anchors Aweigh, @USSConstitution
• Beach Boys, Sloop John B, @GalenMoore, @RockDoggy, @GeekWearsPrada, @Ramona_W
• Beatles, Because, @CarmencitaB
• Bertie Higgins, Key Largo, @GriffinClubMerv
• Billy Joel, The Downeaster “Alexa”, @lighthousenews
• Bob Seger, Against the Wind, @Maineman1
• Bobby Darin, Beyond the Sea, @infoaboutalaska
• Buffalo Killers, @ethigent
• Christopher Cross, Sailing, @UR_AY_GAS
• Collective Soul, @ethigent
• Commodores, Sail On, @infoaboutalaska
• Crosby, Stills and Nash, Southern Cross, @LOAnow, @huzzah70
• Dan Hall, http://www.danhall.com/albums.html, @lighthousenews
• Dire Straits, Single-Handed Sailor, @woodenboat
• Elvis Costello, Shipbuilding, @CarmencitaB
• Enya, Orinoco Flow (Sail Away), @SailorLass
• Fairport Convention, A Sailor’s Life, @woodenboat
• Frankie Ford, Sea Cruise, @woodenboat
• Gordon Lightfoot, Christian Island, @wolf10
• Gordon Lightfoot, Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, @lighthousenews
• Guy Clark, Boats to Build, @wolf10, @BarbAtSea
• Ivy, The Edge of the Ocean, @ogladi
• Jimmy Buffett, Boat Drinks, @UR_AY_GAS
• Jimmy Buffett, Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes, @woodenboat
• Jimmy Buffett, Margaritaville, @woodenboat
• Jimmy Buffett, Son of Son of a Sailor, @canepari
• Jimmy Buffett, Tampico Trauma, @LOAnow
• John Denver, Calypso, @Ramona_W
• Jonathan Edwards, I Will Not Lie Me Down, @BarbAtSea
• Jonathan Edwards, Sailboat, Sailboat, @BarbAtSea
• Kenny Chesney, On the Coast of Somewhere Beautiful, @ogladi
• Kenny Chesney, When the Sun Goes Down, @GeekWearsPrada
• Kingsmen, Louie Louie, @woodenboat
• Lee Murdock, @wolf10
• Little Feat, Sailing Shoes, @Maineman1
• Little River Band, Cool Change, @lighthousenews
• Looking Glass, Brandy You’re a Fine Girl, @GalenMoore
• Lyle Lovett, If I Had a Boat, @FirstBoat
• Otis Redding, (Sittin’ on the) Dock of the Bay, @woodenboat
• Peter Frampton, Sail Away, @woodenboat
• Phil Philips and the Twilights, Sea of Love, @MaritaR
• Port O’Brien, Stuck on a Boat, @bobbymcelver
• Procol Harum, A Salty Dog, @woodenboat
• Rodrigo y Gabriela, Tamacun, @cewhite
• Rusted Root, Send Me On My Way, @cewhite
• Shins, @ethigent
• Stan Rogers, Northwest Passage, @woodenboat
• Styx, Come Sail Away, @Maineman1
• Tanglefoot, The Commodore’s Compliments, @mw2009
• Burl Ives, The Constitution and the Guerriere (http://www.contemplator.com/america/constitutn.html), @USSConstitution
• Tokio Hotel, Monsoon, @ogladi
• Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Learning to Fly, @cewhite
• Tony Rice, Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, @BarbAtSea
• Traditional, Fiddler’s Green, @MaineWindjammer
• Traditional, While Cruising Round Yarmouth, @huzzah70
• Van Morrison, Into the Mystic, @woodenboat