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I am very happy to announce that Rabbit Waves is out!

The idea for this project came after @neauoire & I were discussing the disappearance of certain traditional seasteading skills and maritime communication knowledge. We believe these skills are valuable when electronics misbehave, but they're also just generally fun to learn and to use.

All of the art is drawn by hand :>! We will add more content as we go!

rabbitwaves.ca/

a sketchbook page featuring some hand drawn art of the phonetic alphabet, as well as how to communicate with flag semaphore.
a sketchbook page showing illustrated sea birds having a conversation using the phonetic alphabet.
17 October at 17:13 | Open on merveilles.town
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@rek @neauoire I guessing y'all know this already, but the "peace" symbol ☮️ is derived from the flag semaphore for N and D for Nuclear Disarmament.

17 October at 17:17 | Open on social.ridetrans.it
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@rek @neauoire A series of clocks frozen such that their hands encode a message in flag semaphore would be a great puzzle for a video game or escape room

17 October at 17:20 | Open on social.ridetrans.it
R E K

The first two pages available cover how to communicate using the International Code of Signals, and flag semaphore.

A rabbit waving hand flags at another passing boat. The text reads: "it is also possible to send signals by flag semaphore."
17 October at 17:18 | Open on merveilles.town
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R E K

@tty Yes to both (thank you for asking first :>)

17 October at 18:59 | Open on merveilles.town
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R E K

@tty
1. Ah! Thx, I i will correct this.

As for 2 and 3, the aim of the project is to document ways of communicating, even if they have fallen out of favor, which is the case for the ICS for pleasure boaters. Most sailors nowadays do not know the meanings of the flags(but they know the phonetic alphabet). The navy still uses it tho. I aim to make some flags this year to carry onboard our boat, to practice with, but we already had the Q and O flag onboard(still widely in use).

17 October at 21:47 | Open on merveilles.town
R E K

@tty We fly the Q flag when checking into a country (we flew it this year, although not everyone does this), and the O flag is usually attached to a long pole to use when someone falls overboard.

17 October at 21:49 | Open on merveilles.town
418 I'm a Teapot

@rek @tty I sometimes think about sailing up to a navy ship and doing a performance of sending absurd signals using flags

17 October at 22:01 | Open on merveilles.town
R E K

@chainik do you carry all the signal flags aboard?

17 October at 22:46 | Open on merveilles.town
418 I'm a Teapot

@rek for some reason i don't fully understand, two sets. i'm not very good a remembering them though. you web site might help :)

17 October at 22:55 | Open on merveilles.town
R E K

@chainik I'm trying to find a set for our boat right now. Pretty sure others in our area have sets aboard they're not using :>

19 October at 16:50 | Open on merveilles.town
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@rek @chainik Oh wow. This reference is cool - I had no idea any of these except O and Q existed. Never seen them (except Q, which I carried) on the water in WA or BC, and they're not taught as part of the semi-required boater's ed curriculum in WA (the only flags you get taught in that course are the red and white diver-down flag (not the A flag), and the 'murica flag being required on your stern if you leave US waters)

19 October at 17:11 | Open on merveilles.town
R E K

@tty I also wanted to add that some pleasure boaters do carry those flags aboard, esp old school ones :>. The signals flags are used in racing(although they have their own code for them). On special occasions boats fly all of the signal flags at once (referred to as being 'fully dressed')

a sailboat that is fully dressed, flying all of the signal flags as well as their own country flag at the stern.
17 October at 22:38 | Open on merveilles.town
wrack

@rek @tty Old skoolers will also tell you there is a correct order for the flags when dressing a ship/yacht. I'm not sure you'd find anyone who'd know what that order is anymore!

19 October at 21:12 | Open on merveilles.town
R E K

Added a page on Rabbit Waves about using Day Shapes to communicate to other vessels during daylight hours.

Flying the N and C signal flags together communicates distress, as does flying a square flag and a ball shape.

rabbitwaves.ca/site/day_shapes

Some information about using day shapes to communicate that your vessel is in distress. When in distress,signal using the N and C flags. Another visual way to communicate distress during daylight hours, say one is lacking signal flags, is to fly a square flag above/below a ball shape (anything resembling a ball). This is known as a Day Shape.
An image showing the different messages encoded in day shapes. A turnip-shaped sailboat is flying a single fall, to mean that it is at anchor. "Day shapes are signals raised by a vessel during daylight hours to indicate their status to other vessels. The signals consists of geometric shapes, a sphere, a cyclinder, a diamond and a cone. When comined together, the shapes communicate different messages: A ball means "at anchor" An inverted cone means "Under sail & Power" etc... the rest of the test falls out of frame.
19 October at 17:13 | Open on merveilles.town
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Alexander K‮kn‭li
R E K

@alech nop, but I just looked it up :D!

20 October at 1:11 | Open on merveilles.town
R E K

Devine: "You know, you could have just spelled 'waves'. I mean, there's already a rabbit."
Me: :neofox_think_owo: "Why didn't I think of that..."

20 October at 1:18 | Open on merveilles.town
ThaCuber
R E K

Currently putting together a page on "communicating in Morse Code" for Rabbit Waves.

It'll be done before the end of the month. In the meantime, here are some very adorable rabbit dits and dahs.

The International Morse Code is a way to communicate that consists of short and long sounds that can penetrate interference with greater quality than spoken words. The sounds are encoded, and expressed as: Dots, or Dits (with illustration of a white rabbit coiled into a tight ball, resembling a dot) and Dashes, or Dahs (with illustration of a white rabbit outstreched horizontally, resembling a dash)
27 October at 21:18 | Open on merveilles.town
Kira, feral fox 🦊 🏳️‍⚧️

@rek omigosh those rabbits---!!!! ☺️ ☺️ ☺️

27 October at 22:23 | Open on sunbeam.city
R E K

@tty glad you like them ^^, looking at them makes me smile.

27 October at 22:41 | Open on merveilles.town
R E K

With this project, I get to draw all of my favorite sea birds ^____^...

An anthropomorphised red-footed booby (Sula sula) wearing a black cap and coat with a fuzzy color, next to it are a few chinese characters and numbers.
31 October at 1:05 | Open on merveilles.town
Kevin Boyd

@rek a bit of a Jean Reno flavour to it. Fun!

31 October at 1:45 | Open on phpc.social
R E K

@kboyd haha XD... not intentional, but so true

31 October at 2:36 | Open on merveilles.town
R E K

It took me a little longer than expected, but I completed the Rabbit Waves page for Morse Code!

Below is an illustration for the sub-page about signaling Morse with flags.

rabbitwaves.ca/site/morse.html

There are images of rabbits holding Oscar flags, and using them to signal morse code. For "dah" a rabbit holds two flags outward horizontally at arms length, for "dit" a rabbit holds two flags up over their head, to signal the separation of dits and dahs a rabbit crosses two flags downward in front of their body, to signal the separation of letters/groups/words the rabbit holds the two flag forward apart from each other, and the last signal consisting of a rabbit waving two flags about its head in circles is used to make a request for repetition(if by the receiving station) or to erase signals(if made by the transmitting station).
3 November at 16:39 | Open on merveilles.town
R E K

It took me a little longer than expected, but I completed the Rabbit Waves page for Morse Code!

Below is an illustration for the sub-page about signaling Morse with flags.

rabbitwaves.ca/site/morse.html

There are images of rabbits holding Oscar flags, and using them to signal morse code. For "dah" a rabbit holds two flags outward horizontally at arms length, for "dit" a rabbit holds two flags up over their head, to signal the separation of dits and dahs a rabbit crosses two flags downward in front of their body, to signal the separation of letters/groups/words the rabbit holds the two flag forward apart from each other, and the last signal consisting of a rabbit waving two flags about its head in circles is used to make a request for repetition(if by the receiving station) or to erase signals(if made by the transmitting station).
3 November at 16:45 | Open on merveilles.town
Nathan Taylor

@rek @neauoire only a few pages in but I adore this so far!

17 October at 17:22 | Open on types.pl
arbusis

@rek why you chosed russian personage?

17 October at 17:31 | Open on river.group.lt
Devine Lu Linvega

@arbusis @rek we wanted one of the 9 of ICS that didn't use latin, the guillemot speaks japanese, so that left either greek or russian, and we can both read cyrillic so that was the better choice.

17 October at 17:35 | Open on merveilles.town
Cab

@rek @neauoire I know nothing of sea things (c'est assez évident) but I somehow want this book! Manuals are fun!!

17 October at 17:33 | Open on mastodon.art
rezmason

@rek @neauoire If this was any more adorable I would smelt into a molten nerd ore

17 October at 18:14 | Open on merveilles.town
heracl.es

@rek @neauoire This such a lovely approach with the illustrations and inline symbols!

A minor correction if it helps, where is says "Ελληνική" it should say "Ελληνικά" instead. In modern Greek, the first spelling is an adjective (followed by "language"), while the latter is the proper noun for "Greek."

17 October at 18:31 | Open on mastodon.social
Devine Lu Linvega

@heracles @rek that was corrected from the sketchbook, if you look at the live website: rabbitwaves.ca/site/flags_mari
17 October at 18:36 | Open on merveilles.town
R E K

@neauoire @heracles yea the sketchbook version has a few errors that I had to correct digitally ^^, that was one of them.

17 October at 19:02 | Open on merveilles.town
H3RALD

@rek @neauoire This is a fantastic project! I really like the drawings and the text to go with it... in fact, I am surprised you guys never made your own custom fonts, or icon sets 😍

You could ask for small donations, I bet there would be a lot of people interested! 😉

17 October at 21:11 | Open on merveilles.town
R E K

@h3rald @neauoire I have a custom font of my handwriting already :)

17 October at 21:53 | Open on merveilles.town
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@rek @neauoire We were once saved from a possible wreck by recognising Uniform flashed at us by lamp.
Dark night, sailing on a reach, parallel to a steep-to lee shore, aiming to pass between a tug and the shore. Tug flashed 'U' at us. Turned out we were sailing into the bight between tug and it's unlit, aground, tow on the shore.
A hasty 180° performed!

18 October at 7:06 | Open on mastodon.radio
Lionel

@rek @neauoire
This is awesome. Thank you.
I would also mentioned the international distress signal in flag November Charlie according to colreg

18 October at 8:02 | Open on mastodon.social
R E K

@doublemetres @neauoire Yes! I have since added it :). Thx for the reminder.

19 October at 21:02 | Open on merveilles.town
wrack
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@ccohanlon @neauoire Happy to hear it :>! And since you are far more experienced than we, let us know if you do find mistakes.

19 October at 19:51 | Open on merveilles.town
Daruma

@rek @neauoire
I’m so excited about this! I’mma add it to my rss!

19 October at 21:53 | Open on mstdn.party
R E K

@ZhangBenKong @neauoire I'm working on adding the feed, it'll be up soon!

19 October at 22:54 | Open on merveilles.town
Daruma

@rek @neauoire I’m enjoying what you have up so far! Always glad to see your work :)

19 October at 23:13 | Open on mstdn.party
🌀bedient Lady

@rek

@neauoire

This is really neat! I'll have to check it out more in depth later.

I wonder what the politics behind choosing Norwegian over Swedish or Danish was. It's the least populous and newest of the three, and from what my Norwegian friends have said, they're considered the bumpkins of the three. They're all interoperable with each other, so that doesn't matter so much, but still.

(Now I'm wondering if the official code books are written in both Bokmål and Nyorsk, (the two official written languages of Norwegian,).)

@rek

@neauoire

This is really neat! I'll have to check it out more in depth later.

I wonder what the politics behind choosing Norwegian over Swedish or Danish was. It's the least populous and newest of the three, and from what my Norwegian friends have said, they're considered the bumpkins of the three. They're all interoperable with each other, so that doesn't matter so much, but still.

20 October at 11:51 | Open on mastodon.triggerphra.se
DHeadshot's Alt

@rek @neauoire This is pretty cool! I notice, though, the homepage was a perfect case for imagemaps, but you didn't use them? Was that a deliberate design decision?

20 October at 20:22 | Open on topspicy.social
Diego F. Goberna

@rek @neauoire I love it so much! delightful illustrations, amazing job!! info very well summarized and distilled ♥

I wonder if you plan to release a PDF version for print, but that might be an unnecessary amount of extra work.

15 November at 22:21 | Open on c.im
R E K

@feiss @neauoire At some point we might, for now we want to focus on adding more content tho ^^

16 November at 0:05 | Open on merveilles.town
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