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| ...The 2016 cover... |
I am very happy and proud to announce the 13th year edition of my Island Packet Yachts Calendar. Usually I have this completed by mid November, but this year I have been working very hard on moving 11,500 Island Packet Yacht owners' photos and thousands of photo albums from the server at IPphotos dot com into the new and upgraded web server at
www.IPYOA.com/photos. This project has taken all my spare time and great effort since the Annapolis Boat Show on October 9th. Now that we reached Marathon, FL and taken a break at our "happy place"
www.HarbourCayClub.org, I have found time to build the 2016 IP calendar.
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| January 2016 |
This seems like it should be an easy project. Simply select 12 photos, slap them into a calendar and release it. Not so, this edition took me 25 to 30 hours to create, I spent a day in the Marathon Public Library and two full days working on board IP 35 Island Spirit. I am very happy with this latest edition. I looked through 5,000+ photos to arrive at these 13 images.
Note: I have 110,000 digital photos I have taken on my laptop, 90% of which are Island Packet yachts and sailing scenes, so I have the material. The best aspect to the IP calendar is when owners send me great photos of their sailing adventures. This year we have included several such wonderful additions from IP owners.
I enjoy creating this product for Island Packet owners. The $5.00 proceeds from each calendar help to pay for some of the fees during the year to upgrade and run the www.IPYOA.com website where 3,000+ members have shared over 16,000 digital photos. This web site is now serving nearly 20,000 page views per month and more people are joining daily. I enjoy the sharing, learning and community spirit of the Island Packet Yacht Owners' Web Site. I hope you learn from it and enjoy the sharing as well.
Here are the photos in the 2016 IPYOA 13th edition calendar.
NOTE: Click on each photo. They are full screen images, 1024 x 768 pixels.
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Thank you for enjoying our Island Packet Yachts!
1 comment:
Beautiful job on the calendar Hayden!
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