“...we have committed to an unlikely, reckless voyage. All we can do is maintain a rough dead reckoning of its course and embrace the uncharted and the relentless unexpected.”
My wife and I are privileged to be mentioned in Peter Bach’s cri de coeur against European and UK immigration policies, The Geopolitics of Cynicism — the latest in his series of weekly columns, Letter from London, published today in the US-based magazine, @counterpunch.
"Their slow voyage southwards along the Atlantic coast of Europe in search of somewhere to settle has become a kind of performance art, expressed in the poetic, diaristic prose and photos that turn up daily on social media."
The Māori King and other Indigenous leaders have signed a treaty recognizing whales as legal persons.The document is rooted in the Māori worldview, in which whales are regarded as ancestors.
[from A Descendant’s Call For Whale Legal Personhood by Mere Tokoko, via Atmos, 2024]
@ccohanlon Let us hope that this is another impediment to Japan's callous, murder of whales in southern oceans for "scientific" reasons. (Yes, the "science" does seem to be geared toward culinary purposes at upscale Tokyo restaurants).
I'm looking for crew for Wrack's voyage south to the Mediterranean, departing in early May from Cherbourg, in France. Sail-handling and watch-keeping experience are essential.
Another tiny, ocean-going sailboat: Shrimpy, a tiny, 5.5 metre (18’ 6”), plywood Caprice Mark I, designed by Robert Tucker,
In 1972, Englishman Shane Acton, aged 25, bought her second-hand for £400 and almost immediately, with minimal equipment and no experience, set off on a voyage around the world. A Swiss woman, Iris Derungs, joined him along the way.
He returned to England eight years later, wrote a book, then sailed to Central America, settled ashore, and wrote another.
Our daughter, India, disappeared twelve days ago in San Diego, California. It is believed she might still be in the City Heights area of the city. If you've seen her in the past week, please contact the Missing Persons Unit of San Diego County Sheriff Department: +1 619 531 2277
@ccohanlon Hi there. I'm a parent too and can't image the worry and pain you're going through right now. ❤️ For wider coverage and boosting, edit your post to include hashtags such #SanDiego#missingperson Fediverse runs on hashtags. Hope you find her soon. Good luck 🍀
@ccohanlon We live in Chula Vista, which is close to San Diego and if we see her, we'll let you and local law enforcement know...We will hope for the best!
My daughter’s name is India Delilah O’Hanlon. An Australian-American by birth, she has lived and worked in San Diego for the past two years. She is 25 years old. Eleven days ago, she disappeared, leaving behind her clothes, make-up, computer, and even her social security card and credit cards. Her parents were probably the last to see her, on 16 January, at 07.56pm, via a video call in which she seemed distracted, high, and agitated by the arrival of an unseen male.
The call ended abruptly. She has not been seen since by family, friends, or work colleagues.
A missing person’s report was filed on Thursday last week with San Diego County Sheriff’s Department. Her case no. there is 24500153. The telephone no. of their Missing Persons Unit is +1 619 531 2277.
The San Diego Sheriff’s detective that took the report was dismissive of our concerns, suggesting she probably "went on a road trip without telling anyone".
PRAY TO THE ANGELS. The mystic Lorna Byrne has seen Angels all her life and told us to do it. I have done it & I HAVE HAD MIRACLES HAPPEN THAT YOU AND OTHER PEOPLE WOULD BELIEVE TOTALLY IMPOSSIBLE. Just do it. You have nothing to lose and it's free. The Angels want you to.
Love this, above the imposing entrance of the Institut Oceanographique de Paris — now known as La Maison de l'Océan — built in 1911 to the design of Henri Paul Nénot.
We are still looking for temporary accommodation ashore for a couple of months, this winter, anywhere out of the EU's Schengen zone — and I do mean 'anywhere'.
If you can help or have any suggestions, DMs are open.
"Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up in your brain. Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter, and lead pencil markings endure longer than memory."
After a summer in southern English waters, surrounded everywhere by elderly people (like us), it has been joyous and reassuring, in France, to encounter a lot of young people, a few in their early twenties, aboard boats of their own.
We are still looking for an affordable room or studio apartment in Berlin — for a couple of weeks or longer — at the end of September so we can be around for the birth of our first grandchild.
"I am writing on what is the first morning of sunshine and no wind in a long while, although even as I write this a bank of low cloud has already begun to move across the sky..."
“We can reasonably suggest that sailing is, in many ways, and perhaps even fundamentally, an ‘aesthetic’ activity. For cruising under sail to be meaningful…it must fit within a certain symbolic framework.”
– Jerome FitzGerald, author, proto-seasteader, ethical farmer, and founder of The Oar Club, a loose association of engineless sailors (now defunct).
A beautifully restored, wooden, lugsail ketch — still bearing its registration as a fishing smack out of Fowey, Cornwall — berthed on a pontoon ahead of ours in Plymouth, this afternoon.
Beyond, thick fog obscures the rest of the estuary.
The 28-foot, engineless, wooden Falmouth Quay punt, Curlew, owned by Tim and Pauline Carr, moored alongside the derelict whaler, Petrel, on the Antarctic island of South Georgia. Designed and built in Falmouth by R S Burt in 1905, the Carrs bought her in 1968.
During the 32 years they sailed Curlew around the world, the Carrs made several voyages to the Antarctic and South Georgia Island, where they lived for a few years and established a whaling museum.