self-portrait in the present sea journal

I can no longer make changes to the main site, www.inthepresentsea.com, which is now frozen in time, as I will be myself soon enough. Anything more will be added here. The contact at the main site has become unreliable, so I have created a new email address and can be reached at webbchiles@yahoo.com. The Yellowbrick tracking page for GANNET when I am at sea is: https://my.yb.tl/gannet

Monday, April 27, 2026

Hilton Head Island: to sail; satellites; three haiku

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  Yesterday I wrestled GANNET’s interior into what used to be called passage mode, but is now perhaps more accurately just overnight sailing...
Saturday, April 25, 2026

Hilton Head Island: longing while dying

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Last evening Carol and I were sitting on the screen porch watching the sun set blood red behind Skull Creek and Pickney Island.  Erik Satie’...
Monday, April 20, 2026

Hilton Head Island: le vent nous portera and a poem

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  You have seen variations on this image before.  It is a beautifully frequent part of my life.  Not entirely by chance, This evening Carol ...
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Friday, April 17, 2026

Hilton Head Island: painted

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  GANNET is an old boat.  She was launched in 1979, so sometime this year she will be 47 years old.  Old boat.  Old sailor.  Early next mont...
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Thursday, April 16, 2026

Hilton Head Island: a Bondathon

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Carol and I have just completed a Bondathon, viewing all twenty-five James Bond movies in sequence.  While Amazon has bought the Bond franch...
Friday, April 10, 2026

Hilton Head Island: the obituary of James Whittaker

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I saw a couple of days ago reports of the obituary of James Whittaker, the first American to summit Mount Everest. I know little of James Wh...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Hilton Head Island: two storms

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  There are two cyclones in the western South Pacific Ocean.  This is late in the season which is said to end there May 1.  I have been watc...
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Sunday, April 5, 2026

Hilton Head Island: Reinhold Messner; love and death in Uruguay; $255 per mile

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I thank my friend Michael for forwarding me the following from the famed mountaineer, Reinhold Messner .  Michael and his wife, Layne, retir...
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Friday, April 3, 2026

Hilton Head Island: two alligators and a lot of egrets.

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  Carol drove us over to Pickney Island yesterday and we saw two alligators and a lot of egrets.  This is their nesting season and the photo...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Hilton Head Island: GANNET’s new home; an odd life; and two poems

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After a week of almost constant gale warnings, though as usual there was not that much wind on this side of the island, Monday morning was c...
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