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ECS - 12/06/2003 - Welcome to the Tradewinds Pages where the world of commerce can find a place to tie up and reside on this Cyberspace Web Wharf Hub to the maritime world. Just like Yankee traders in the old days, we seek out ways to support this www.eraoftheclipperships.com venture and the tradewinds of commerce seems like a good one. Over the 2001 Holiday Season during our first year we went through all the printed material that we have gathered over the past year and surfed around the world in search of businesses that we thought would be likely clients to these pages. As a gesture of the Holiday Spirit we threw some of their links along with pictures up on our Web site as a way of presenting our pages in much the ideal way that we would like things to go. Show and tell. This is also the only way to show everybody just what we are trying to do and that is a sharing of our unique vision as to what we hope to be all about from now on. Whatever works! We are certainly more than willing to do a good turn for others before we ever ask anything of them in return. Now surf on down through our Tradewinds Pages on our Web site to see what they are all about. ________________________
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_________________________ We launched these Tradewinds Pages with the high hopes that eventually things would pan out for us as far as these pages bringing in a bit of cash flow our way to pay for the upkeep of this Web site. As well as for supporting our ambitious agenda for doing whatever we have to do to be the catalyst that brings another era of the clipper ships out of the "Horse Latitudes" and to fruition. Everyone should understand that I am just a poor maritime historian trying to do the best I can with whatever I have to work with which for the time being is not much. In addition to building and maintaining this Web site, I also spend some time writing letters to our political leaders in support of our clipper ship heritage to try and shake them out of their lethargy as far as letting them know that they should really be doing more in support of our clipper ship heritage. I would also very much like to be spending more time this summer sailing and covering the maritime scene out there on the brimey blue beyond the Hudson River. But for the time being I am kept busy making a living with other activities to help support this Web site until more cash flow starts coming in one way or another. I would much rather make this Web site my full time day job. As with any new venture, it takes time to get things going so please bear with us and support our voyage across the uncharted Cyber Sea. Five of these pages are now up and they are our way of doing our part with trying to jumpstart the economy again in lieu of 9/11 and the adventure tourism industry at this point in time could sure use all the help it can get. We hear you. Here we are. Much of our economy depends on the places we go, the things we do, the objects we buy, where we stay and the restaurants we dine at. Adventure tourism is a huge industry in the maritime world. This is the quality time that so many people actively seek out and from now on these Tradewinds Pages are just a mouse click away. So far all the links that you see on our Tradewinds pages have been posted there for free in our attempt to present just what our concept of what a Cyberspace Web Wharf Hub to the maritime world should look like. Everyone who has seen our Tradewinds Pages thinks that they look great. But unfortunately at the beginning our timing was wrong in that our Tradewinds pages first went up right after the dot com world crashed and burned. The concept of paid advertising for this Web site, or anywhere else on the World Wide Web for that matter, just didn't seem to float. So since then we have just kept the sampler Tradewinds pages up with the hopes that things would change again in the future once our Web site was well established and in the meantime just let everybody advertise on the Tradewinds pages for free. Since then we have risen in the ranks of tall ships maritime Web sites we are very happy to say and if you type in "clipper ships" with most search engines, our Web site comes up at the top of the list! We think that this fact should translate into incentive for the maritime world to seriously now consider advertising on our pages, and just send us money donations on a voluntary basis for this service. This way we can avoid the time consuming overly commercial aspects of this service and spend our time with the more creative aspects of this activity and eventually reach the full potential of what we want these Tradewinds pages to be all about. You can also support us now by buying a book copy of The Era of the Clipper Ships. ____________________________
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____________________________ 1/01/04 ~ NEW! Tradewinds of the British Isles
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_____________________ Our pages evolve and seem to take on a life and style of their own as far as visual presentation is concerned. What we are doing is mixing it up as we layout the pages in a free form cell table format with our Dreamweaver 4 - Fireworks 4 software. What you see is what you get and we do hope that you are delighted with what you see as we expand upon our visual Tradewinds presentations. For that certainly is our intention as we strive for excellence in this department. These pages look cool. Just turn us loose with the idea for your ad and let us run with it. For we really do have your best business interests at heart. Our creative design sense and judgement are intuitively good and we are having fun in this new exciting format that we have come up with. So we are offering this space to everyone who wishes to advertise on our Tradewinds Pages. Take a look at some of the Tradewinds Pages on our Web site and just imagine what your ad would look like on these pages. It can all happen very quickly. All you have to do is send us a gif or jpg Image file attached to an Email with a description of what you want the ad to say to the following Email address: tradewinds@eraoftheclipperships.com. Or you can mail a picture and what you want the ad to say to: The Era of the Clipper Ships, Tradewinds Department, P.O. Box 723, Stone Ridge, NY 12484. Within 24 hours your link can go up on these pages. So far there are four Tradewinds Pages up. The Maine Tradewinds Page, the Tradewinds Around the World Page, the Hudson River Valley Tradewinds Page and the Massachusetts Tradewinds Page. Other pages will evolve as the need arises. Your support is vital to the success of this Web site. Our major goal is to be a catalyst that will lead to the building of lofty clipper ships once again which will lead to the economic prosperity of the maritime community. So join us on this voyage across the Cyber Sea. We welcome you aboard. _____________________ In a Nutshell Fill this form out and mail it off to us, or you can contact us via Email. tradewinds@eraoftheclipperships.com. _______________________ The Era of the Clipper Ships P.O. Box 723 Stone Ridge, NY 12484 ______________________
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