Friday, June 2, 2017

Evanston: the latest; paneled; more SNAFU; more videos


        The above image is the latest appropriation of ‘A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind’ to which Google has alerted me.  It was on the site of a beautiful woman, whom I do not know--I visited her site and saw a photo of her--and at least it was accompanied by ‘Not all those who wander are lost,’ which I rather like.

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        While after all these years and voyages I like to think that I am reasonably competent and knowledgeable about boats, experts in given fields know a great deal more than I in their specific areas.  This comes to mind because I had a most instructive telephone conversation with Tom Whitehead of Ocean Planet Energy which resulted in my changing details of my order in several ways and how I will wire the panels. There are also two useful Solbian installation videos on the site.  Support is so important I don’t understand how some companies just don’t get it.  The Ocean Planet Energy and Yellowbrick, to name just two, certainly do.

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They are not a complete record of the voyage.  I was surprised to discover that I didn’t shoot any video  the last three or four hundred miles of the passage.  Near land I was busy dodging local fishing boats and preparing to enter harbor.  Perhaps nothing of interest happened before that.
I have tried, with varied success, to capture a range of the experience of sailing a small boat alone across oceans, including at night.  In the future I am going to try to provide more variety and show myself more. 
On a Moore 24 one almost always has to be holding on, braced or wedged in, and there are only a limited number of places where I can be secure and hold a camera.  Nevertheless I have some ideas.
        As a writer I am immodestly confident.  In this medium I am still feeling my way.