Galway Blazer II, an unconventional junk-rigged schooner designed by English naval architect Angus Primrose and built at Souter’s, in Cowes, Isle of Wight, in 1967, for a much-decorated wartime submarine commander, Bill King, who intended to sail her alone around the world.

A modern take on the traditional Chinese trading junk: the 48.5-foot K’ung Fu-Tse, designed by the late Thomas Colvin and built of aluminium.

Colvin lived aboard the junk with his family and from 1973 to 1989, sailed her more than 75.000 sea miles.

Wandering activists and poets, George and Mary Oppen, aboard the small boat they lived on in the 1930s.

(Re)reading Mary Oppen's Meaning A Life at the moment.

"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."

– Liz Cullinane

https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-in-search-of-home

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]

https://atmos.earth/a-descendants-call-for-whale-legal-personhood/

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.

For further details: https://crewbay.com/job/12098

Or reach out to me here.

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

#Missing #Alert #MissingPerson #SanDiego #California #Police

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.

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.

A lighthouse, Wales, 2020.

Photo by Aleks Gjika.

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."

– Jack London

"You will find the suggestions from a waterman’s bookshelf by wanderer and diarist C.C. O'Hanlon..."

In 'Ocean Reads' — my modest contribution to the stunningly curated SIRENE Journal, No. 17, now available to order (better yet, subscribe).

https://sirenejournal.com/#sirene-issue-17-intro

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.

If you know of anywhere, do please reach out.

Sailing unstable weather systems to make some easting,, my wife taps into her Polynesian/Viking ancestry for her first days at the helm in open sea.

Wrack has been proving her power and sea kindliness in a range of conditions.

"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..."

A update posted via @gofundme:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-stopping-place

Dream boat:

Berthed near us, a 35-ish feet, junk-rigged schooner, all steel (even the masts), home-built by the elderly couple who sail her.