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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.
 @ccohanlon This is amazing. Makes me a bit lightheaded, mostly in a good way. Listening to Satie just now with this image juxtaposed... Hope you're doing well this day. Have you found a place ashore yet for the winter? 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  @ccohanlon @neauoire Sadly, I have "collate todo lists" as a todo list item on SO MANY LISTS going back before high school.  @ccohanlon Starting a journal and keeping it on me at all times was one of the easiest and most effective improvements to my life, hands down. "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). 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: 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. Why choose to cruise in an engliness sailboat? “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). http://web.archive.org/web/20041206200447/www.oarclub.org/page8.html 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. Photo by Colin Monteath. 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. Becalmed off Portland Bill at sunset, last night, the notorious tidal race a millpond, during our long passage west along the English Channel aboard Wrack. Almost ready for sea, Wrack on a river pontoon opposite Lymington's town quay, with new mainsail stackpack, lazyjacks, sprayhood, and soon, jackstays. We're still working on our electronic and wind-vane self-steering and electrics. It embarrasses me to ask but...my wife and I are between a rock and a hard place, right now. Please help if you can. https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-stopping-place?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm @ccohanlon Usually I can't pay online, but somehow it succeeded (not much, also broke). Do you get this, or only after the goal was reached? You can take the man out of Australia but (sometimes) you can't take Australia out of the man.  I use references to Vegemite to identify self-proclaimed Australian people on the net… My wife and I live on a sailboat. It is a life-raft of sorts. It's also an island on which we're trying to regain an unsettled but sheltered freedom, even if we are like castaways, with few hopes and no expectations, unlikely to be rescued. We are disenfranchised from the idea of 'home'. |
@ccohanlon What is its function now?
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@ccohanlon who knew that mind flayers were popular back then already?