 Seafaring as an extended meditational retreat: In late 2018, overwhelmed by a desire to be on her own, Emma Ringqvist set sail from the Baltic Sea towards Brazil. She would eventually cover 15,000 sea miles across the North and South Atlantic, 164 days in all, of which 67 were spent offshore, alone, without an engine, on her non-stop return voyage. A well-crafted, moving film, directed by Mattias Olsson. An understated video profile of a seagoing folk hero. Nick Skeates, 72, has sailed around the world four times since the early '70s, in two small yachts. Wiley scavenger, skilled seaman, adept at living on the margins of, well, everything, he embraces, for the most part, an 18th century simplicity of means. Hell of a yacht designer, too. Below: Skeates aboard his self-designed/built 32-foot, steel cutter, Wylo II and its galley built entirely of salvaged materials.  @ccohanlon my dream boat that Wylo II! Ever since I watched a small video interview with him. Loved seeing inside his boat, the setup and re-use of things is incredible. That boat has so much character (so does he!!)  @ccohanlon I remember seeing footage of him cooking with.. parafin? or some other blue-looking gas. We ended up acquiring that same water faucet after watching the video of him cooking. Kiana Weltzien sails a 48 year old, 40-foot, epoxy plywood Wharram catamaran, Mara Noka, alone and more recently with a crew of two other women — Women and the Wind: https://www.womenandthewind.com/women. A couple of years ago she sailed her somewhat ‘agricultural’ vessel — e.g. a deck house roofed with corrugated tin — solo across the Atlantic from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean and shot an atmospheric if raw 26-minute film on her iPhone. @ccohanlon I think this is the first time I see the inside of what a catamaran hull looks like 👀 “There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world — the settled and the nomad — and there is a natural antipathy between them, whatever the land to which they may belong.” – Freya Stark [from A Winter in Arabia, 1940] |
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@ccohanlon Loved it. Last sentence about going slowly cracked me up... Also last image of her ❤️