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
February 3, 2009 6 Comments









