tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83965392397184422432024-03-18T07:51:58.700-04:00self-portrait in the present sea journalI 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
Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850431988375738943noreply@blogger.comBlogger1537125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396539239718442243.post-18875461705325673462024-03-17T22:15:00.020-04:002024-03-18T07:51:26.198-04:00Lake Forest: my worthless life; a secret to a good marriage; notes nevertheless to my future biographer<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRxz1iWADeNZCG4Ze-5zXw2DBLORhpW5EvQS8Fp04oStdh6gvxo4iVpp2iEBm101iHpmylSo8jy1F2Ex4bdjmjt9sxSZ1Z9CCZOkkfzAJCjmArOxB6nC5froz7kp3HBK4Oqa_v7sa-fxtkWc0qX5azuD8zpoZQxZeEf1fDuLYsa0ZQXsCTfOHxDrqpuMtX/s1851/IMG_2741.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1429" data-original-width="1851" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRxz1iWADeNZCG4Ze-5zXw2DBLORhpW5EvQS8Fp04oStdh6gvxo4iVpp2iEBm101iHpmylSo8jy1F2Ex4bdjmjt9sxSZ1Z9CCZOkkfzAJCjmArOxB6nC5froz7kp3HBK4Oqa_v7sa-fxtkWc0qX5azuD8zpoZQxZeEf1fDuLYsa0ZQXsCTfOHxDrqpuMtX/s320/IMG_2741.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I have watched on Apple TV+ THE DYNASTY. For those of you who do not live in the somewhat not quite United States this is a series about the New England Patriots’ domination of the National Football League as no team ever has under coach Bill Belicheck and quarterback Tom Brady who has won seven Super Bowls, the last with a different team. Brady is often called the GOAT—the Greatest of All Time. I do not believe in GOATs because different times cannot </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">objectively </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">be compared, but unquestionably he has won far more Super Bowls than any other quarterback, so we must accept his wisdom in all things, or be outcasts.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In the final episode of THE DYNASTY when Brady was being acclaimed on his return to the Patriot’s stadium he said, and this is an exact quote:<i> It is one of my core beliefs that there is nothing significant in life that can be accomplished as an individual. It is always about the team.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">So, far too late I have learned that my life has been worthless. I have believed in the individual and I have worked alone; but who can argue with a GOAT? Given a second chance I would try to do better, but as someone else observed life is not a dress rehearsal, so I don’t get a second chance. Sorry, Tom. Sorry all of you. I screwed up.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Despite my failed life, most accept that I know something about sailing boats alone across oceans. A few even think I am a pretty good writer. But until now no one has considered that I might also be able to offer advice about marriage. Odd for I have been married more than most and to confuse some have now been married to one of the most intelligent and beautiful women of her generation for thirty years, so I offer free a rare secret of a good marriage.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Everyone knows the basics: respect, compromise, kindness, communication, great sex, but few know that a key to a good marriage can be noise-cancelling headphones. I have them on now. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Carol and I agree on most things, but we have different tastes in music and television. She watches what poses as the news on television which I find an intolerable combination of Entertainment Tonight and the National Enquirer where all the talking heads speak rapidly and breathlessly, deliberately creating fear which has long been proven the way to sell newspapers and the media’s subsequent descendants, Descend indeed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Our condo in Hilton Head is configured better to solve this problem. Carol can be watching and listening to whatever she wants on the television which is located near the kitchen while I am reading or watching whatever I want sitting in front of the bedroom window and looking out at Skull Creek. However in this apartment that is not possible. Noise cancelling headphones are a technological salvation.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">To my future biographer: you are going to make your academic career by discovering a previously little known genius—not my word, I prefer ‘original’ but ‘genius’ will sell better— and one who has the advantage of being as exceptional physically as he was as a writer, who made voyages no one had ever even imagined and may still again, and repeatedly survived the seemingly unsurvival, and who defined some words—sailor, artist—better than any one ever had—plus understood as a teenager that to call ourselves homo sapiens is a cosmic joke, that we are homo insipiens or perhaps homo narcissus, so I don’t apologize that the record is split and that you are going to do some work and go to my main site, if it still exists, and to the various places the journal has been uploaded. I like, no I love, simplicity and clarity, but this technology is not in my control and I can no longer update the main site, so here are two additions I would make if I could.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I would add to the Lines page: </span></p><p><a href="https://www.inthepresentsea.com/the_actual_site/lines.html">https://www.inthepresentsea.com/the_actual_site/lines.html</a></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>To life,</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>And pushing as hard as you can as long as you can and being grateful for whatever moments of peace you find</i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And I would add to the Webb Chiles section of the photographs page</span></p><p><a href="https://www.inthepresentsea.com/the_actual_site/webb2.html">https://www.inthepresentsea.com/the_actual_site/webb2.html</a></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">this one Steve Earley took last month </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">while we were sipping drinks on the Hilton Head condo’s screened porc</span>h.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS2diA_ig56bMfge9huyS11BMI8XIg31TaRum_vcQYdj5TY5fR772cmIt2EdMy4j6f4gxjJb7nCZDKlkR6oopOU_1bD9bszr87b9zME2WW0Wfbu4r0WZfE1T0U6Fk8xXfF2jwKU8M63sj16zmjhpi6SE7_yUgExJI30-mOrd93IxOso2l54JPr34oDHFiz/s4032/IMG_2707.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS2diA_ig56bMfge9huyS11BMI8XIg31TaRum_vcQYdj5TY5fR772cmIt2EdMy4j6f4gxjJb7nCZDKlkR6oopOU_1bD9bszr87b9zME2WW0Wfbu4r0WZfE1T0U6Fk8xXfF2jwKU8M63sj16zmjhpi6SE7_yUgExJI30-mOrd93IxOso2l54JPr34oDHFiz/s320/IMG_2707.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The top photo was taken by me a few decades ago at a cremation in Bali when I could still see well enough to use a camera beyond shooting videos and excerpting single frames. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p>Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850431988375738943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396539239718442243.post-54462644019878769782024-03-13T13:05:00.006-04:002024-03-13T18:35:38.903-04:00Lake Forest: patched; open boats<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTFHSPqjETfZGtutEs4Sn2pQX5QooEZ4x07JsPlZjLGVPVzXNEjZNZm5WH3JonsWA4048yWGSlezrvf2-ip6XNFgL5DNl1W_VdOmY1Qbpx8k8G4VMFM4vFjVS4IYeKGFGYf_HA3r_zigPDPtrxEPww6qh7uOADyG4RwfesEJmH2r9T2Vv_MHhXp38f-v-X/s549/Photo%20on%202011-02-15%20at%2014.04%20%232.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="441" data-original-width="549" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTFHSPqjETfZGtutEs4Sn2pQX5QooEZ4x07JsPlZjLGVPVzXNEjZNZm5WH3JonsWA4048yWGSlezrvf2-ip6XNFgL5DNl1W_VdOmY1Qbpx8k8G4VMFM4vFjVS4IYeKGFGYf_HA3r_zigPDPtrxEPww6qh7uOADyG4RwfesEJmH2r9T2Vv_MHhXp38f-v-X/s320/Photo%20on%202011-02-15%20at%2014.04%20%232.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You can blame Michael for this. He wrote that he would like to see a photo of me with an eye patch, so I searched and came up with this one. It dates back to 2011. You will probably be surprised to learn that my reaction to it is how young I look. Now I don’t delude myself I was young. I was seventy years old, but when I look in the mirror now as I occasionally must, to my eye I look a lot older. At age 82 twelve years is about 15% of my life, so I should look 15% older and I do.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You can thank Michael for this one, which I happened across while looking for a patched me.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmRN9iEQ2JUP2I-ZurLoq0RzXYB1uxcbRJRdgTYEd76piyapB01pnWAvQY0n9cyTALznbotW12qKR6HOihsCOjfuFBjmHiw8NT2_QvU7uo3FSZFPY-abmAH_Aj8F6vmzCy8B_b5JP7Iz5tnwePk9kwKuYPdEZmk687qb1TotlStxikArwnwCzjkJzK5_3f/s2592/2005-04-26%20017.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1944" data-original-width="2592" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmRN9iEQ2JUP2I-ZurLoq0RzXYB1uxcbRJRdgTYEd76piyapB01pnWAvQY0n9cyTALznbotW12qKR6HOihsCOjfuFBjmHiw8NT2_QvU7uo3FSZFPY-abmAH_Aj8F6vmzCy8B_b5JP7Iz5tnwePk9kwKuYPdEZmk687qb1TotlStxikArwnwCzjkJzK5_3f/s320/2005-04-26%20017.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I include it just because. It dates to 2005 when THE HAWKE OF TUONELA would have been on her mooring in New Zealand’s Bay of Islands. While Carol is prettier, that the camera focused on the flower is serendipitous. </span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The first winter Carol and I were married THE HAWKE OF TUONELA remained on the hard in the Florida Keys and we lived in a rented apartment. That next summer I sailed her up to Boston and that winter I insulated her interior so we could live on aboard and built a v-berth in the forepeak which had been empty and used for sail stowage when she was a racer. I drove Carol to her office and then continued on Memorial Drive to Constitution Marina. This being Boston usually the temperature was well below freezing and upon arrival I turned on the space heater and shivered until it warmed up enough for me to be able to hold tools. Many of you are much better at building things than I, but I managed and doing the work myself had the great advantage that I could afford my wages.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">What is called Mary Bryant’s open boat voyage has caused me to be thinking about open boat voyages. I have tried to learn the size of the boat she, her husband, two infants and seven other escaped convicts sailed. It seems it was about 25’ long. That is a lot of people in a small boat, but then Capt. Blight had nineteen in the </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">BOUNTY’S </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">23’ launch, including himself. CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE could have floated inside both of those boats. Here from Sailboat Data are the specifications of a Drascombe Lugger.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Fg5Ca-bUjAzWEphPboNk9bpaJkwplRZ40llEzgl-j2hNWEj51wn49XPEuPsoqyyU8QjkkbewvBSxxuxe4KULk6SOTjwl_5_2SGngwcd4IwWnP_KPqKQWI6e0rYhZrOoaVmxLJG1OIZ6lWLnqIupknwj7pi9k96zpS2Nzt6-KXEhr5PJvyOZtgpxZlDJ9/s1761/IMG_2738.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1060" data-original-width="1761" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Fg5Ca-bUjAzWEphPboNk9bpaJkwplRZ40llEzgl-j2hNWEj51wn49XPEuPsoqyyU8QjkkbewvBSxxuxe4KULk6SOTjwl_5_2SGngwcd4IwWnP_KPqKQWI6e0rYhZrOoaVmxLJG1OIZ6lWLnqIupknwj7pi9k96zpS2Nzt6-KXEhr5PJvyOZtgpxZlDJ9/s320/IMG_2738.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I would have much, much rather have been alone in the smallest boat.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Of the Bryant voyage, they had about 700 miles to sail from Sydney before they reached the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef, which would have provided increasing protection as they continued the thousand miles north to Cape York.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I have sailed the last six hundred miles from present day Cairns to Cape York four times in four different boats: CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE, RESURGAM, THE HAWKE OF TUONELA, GANNET. I have said that it is my favorite coastal sail in the world, but then I don’t do much coastal sailing. Or I didn’t before I moved to Hilton Head. Now I suppose I do. From Marathon to Hilton Head. Hilton Head to The Chesapeake and back. Down to St. Marys. Up to Cape Lookout. And sometime this year I’ll sail to Charleston. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The last five hundred miles along what is now northern Queensland are still empty and would look much as they did when the Bryants passed. Still they were sailing into the unknown and I along that coast was not. Cook and Bligh had passed that way, but it was a great feat of seamanship and determination. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div></div>Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850431988375738943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396539239718442243.post-43207799443869653762024-03-11T16:09:00.008-04:002024-03-11T21:54:22.353-04:00Lake Forest: THE FATAL SHORE and an epic open boat voyage; half price; death of a thousand cuts; relapse; and a poem<p> <span style="font-family: helvetica;">I am rereading Robert Hughes’ excellent THE FATAL SHORE about the British colonizing of Australia. Hughes was an Australian who went to England to make good and did as an art critic, writer and television personality. I first read THE FATAL SHORE not long after it was published in the late 1980s and am enjoying it very much again.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There is something to be said for having sailed and experienced much of the world. I have spent more than four years in Australia on my voyages, two of them in Sydney, and I have sailed an open boat around Cape York. Recently I read Nathanial Philbrick’s MAYFLOWER, and I have anchored where the Pilgrims first did at present day Provincetown and at Plymouth, and so bring that knowledge to these books.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Here are some excepts from THE FATAL SHORE. The first about scurvy.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3tqzWc6pFZ_tdy8Awg6enS0JkNxB9QphuvVD_tBpHQWCUGE6Bi1RvlvlOB1ynZOIdDvj6GPjnxOl4vhqnECogImKz_qQ9GeWtI4vvJSsmsXUp0XHRvzTBdCKXdedKYUUFvin7nlcW7Zr93or1el9LCGAFshN_Oe2bOHcMudUzTbjNiubHjcxDCGcMYkfp/s1488/IMG_2154.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1136" data-original-width="1488" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3tqzWc6pFZ_tdy8Awg6enS0JkNxB9QphuvVD_tBpHQWCUGE6Bi1RvlvlOB1ynZOIdDvj6GPjnxOl4vhqnECogImKz_qQ9GeWtI4vvJSsmsXUp0XHRvzTBdCKXdedKYUUFvin7nlcW7Zr93or1el9LCGAFshN_Oe2bOHcMudUzTbjNiubHjcxDCGcMYkfp/s320/IMG_2154.jpeg" width="320" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivrYCDDQgeLrpt8-jCzjWZUcQ_TuWZhLV8iiLUARRlBTbjd-cmFm5uMLSjXJLWaJrXfGm1zoVJDlK492JRa1mmBSUcQGgG-lRg5c3BqPt_Vkzr9IVgPiOe9ATQ2fLkJaCuSJLm2IHSFfPPZ_z1cqtrKZiSP-SKWNHsaa4AeqJz0xhO8xdaYk9CKooXYpLr/s1488/IMG_2155.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1186" data-original-width="1488" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivrYCDDQgeLrpt8-jCzjWZUcQ_TuWZhLV8iiLUARRlBTbjd-cmFm5uMLSjXJLWaJrXfGm1zoVJDlK492JRa1mmBSUcQGgG-lRg5c3BqPt_Vkzr9IVgPiOe9ATQ2fLkJaCuSJLm2IHSFfPPZ_z1cqtrKZiSP-SKWNHsaa4AeqJz0xhO8xdaYk9CKooXYpLr/s320/IMG_2155.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It is estimated that between the 16th and 18th Centuries more than 2,000,000 sailors died from scurvy, far more than from all other causes, including drowning, combined.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And here are the observations on the Māori by Joseph Banks who was with Cook when he first reached New Zealand and found the Māori a far different people than the welcoming Tahitians.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5s7V9AMwEalz49AFXaLFWl-Otw9rSZo1Nn4-dICSWq9ZUhOUGaRSAUAkmA313BDayALYMSIDy6Lr3696_dD5J05e_4wygSYUSm_H5h7nbbsSJzFY185Sk7_z0iEc9BL6E7CapDJ-YKsy2dmauJPuHQcbXSou3HJIYPVJvjG5P0gVPLrN-YXyKjYevIzfZ/s1488/IMG_2156.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="879" data-original-width="1488" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5s7V9AMwEalz49AFXaLFWl-Otw9rSZo1Nn4-dICSWq9ZUhOUGaRSAUAkmA313BDayALYMSIDy6Lr3696_dD5J05e_4wygSYUSm_H5h7nbbsSJzFY185Sk7_z0iEc9BL6E7CapDJ-YKsy2dmauJPuHQcbXSou3HJIYPVJvjG5P0gVPLrN-YXyKjYevIzfZ/s320/IMG_2156.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I do not know if this observation by Hughes is true, but it is interesting and may be: <i>All people, but especially the young, tend to become what society says they are.</i></span> </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Somehow I had forgotten one of the great open boat voyages of all time, that of Mary and William Bryant, their two infants, and seven other convicts, who stole an open boat to escape from Sydney and sailed more than 3,000 miles up the coast, around Cape York and across the Timor Sea to Kupang.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Here is a link to an article about that impressive voyage.</span></p><p><a href="https://navyhistory.au/mary-bryants-open-boat-voyage-from-sydney-to-timor-in-1791-opportunist-convict-or-our-most-magnificent-heroine/">https://navyhistory.au/mary-bryants-open-boat-voyage-from-sydney-to-timor-in-1791-opportunist-convict-or-our-most-magnificent-heroine/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I had a routine eye exam this morning. Having to exam only one eye, the doctor should charge me only half price, but doesn’t.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I also learned this morning that the growth removed from my lower right leg a week ago is a squamous cell carcinoma and I have to return next week for further chopping. This is no surprise. I have seen enough of these things to be able to diagnose them myself. This was the third squamous cell on my right shin in the past year. What I need is a full skin transplant. In its absence it would be more efficient just to amputate my right leg at the knee instead of this death by a thousand cuts. I could then have a peg leg. I already have an eye patch, though I seldom wear it. I would then need only an ear ring and a parrot to look like a real sailor, though I realized a long time ago that whatever I look like is what a sailor looks like.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I have been back in the upper flatlands less than two weeks and I am already suffering from my self named captiterraphobia—fear of being trapped by land. I have detuned myself. I am good for the duration, as is my nature, and we are making progress. Retiring is complicated. I am glad I never have. But I am missing the coast and Skull Creek and GANNET.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">From the BEING HUMAN anthology:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOx81x0iH7HzREkoV1VZIBrcT91I2t1ZGo9IgLUShNpjj5DaJ1toBeZ7V3lMgdRGRHyKDA-ReoFugb4px-wDoEKQkGTgyhbZ24mH9d0nwCzD7RtRk18Xa4aCwTscN8hIyNieeSZ3HU86tmQXKiZOehrg7oW0_DROQ6NIB07cT2jWPEJ_w89N-0Ca4hwE9z/s1796/IMG_2152.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1796" data-original-width="1488" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOx81x0iH7HzREkoV1VZIBrcT91I2t1ZGo9IgLUShNpjj5DaJ1toBeZ7V3lMgdRGRHyKDA-ReoFugb4px-wDoEKQkGTgyhbZ24mH9d0nwCzD7RtRk18Xa4aCwTscN8hIyNieeSZ3HU86tmQXKiZOehrg7oW0_DROQ6NIB07cT2jWPEJ_w89N-0Ca4hwE9z/s320/IMG_2152.jpeg" width="265" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p>Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850431988375738943noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396539239718442243.post-83646922171880838642024-03-06T13:02:00.009-05:002024-03-07T06:51:14.846-05:00Lake Forest: a good book and a poor movie; imagine<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I found myself wondering why I read and watch so much about war. Both the book and film in this post are about war and of the fifteen books I have read so far this year five have been about war and of the remaining ten, five were books of poetry. I have concluded that I read and watch so much about war because war is along with love and scrounging for a living one of the most fundamental human behaviors. We are an aggressive species and that aggression has played a large part in our survival. Probably all those of us alive today are because we had ancestors who were among the most aggressive in their times. The meek have died out.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The book, UNNOWN SOLDIERS by Vaino Linna, I mentioned while I was still reading it. Now that I have finished I consider it to be among the finest of war novels. Seemingly realistic to me who has not been in combat and so cannot truly judge and totally unsentimental. I thank Michael for bringing it to my attention.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Since reading UNKNOWN SOLDIERS I have read more about Finland history. The novel is about Finland’s part in World War Two fighting on the side of Germany from 1941 to 1944,, not in shared values, but a shared enemy. Finland calls that The Continuation War because it followed The Winter War which lasted three months after the Soviet Union invaded Finland on November 30, 1939. At that time the population of the USSR was 186 million. The population of Finland was 3.5 million. Nevertheless Finland inflicted significant defeats on the USSR until finally overwhelmed. I have read elsewhere that the poor performance of the Soviet forces in that brief war influenced Hitler in his decision to invade the USSR.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In 1944 the Soviet Union had the Germans in full retreat and were able to turn some attention to what was to them a sideshow and again overwhelmed Finland’s army forcing the country to sue for peace. Finland then had to fight The Lapland War against German troops in the north of their country who did not want to leave.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Considering its history, it is interesting that currently Finland is usually ranked among the happiest countries in the world.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">With the caveat that there are some brutal scenes, I highly recommend UNKNOWN SOLDIERS.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Last evening Carol I concluded watching the recent Ridley Scott directed NAPOLEON. I try to read reviews minimally before reading a book or watching a movie, but I did see some of this NAPOLEON which were unfavorable and unfortunately accurate. A large part of this is due to the screen play which is incoherent and spends far too much time on Napoleon’s relationship with Josephine, which may appeal to prurient interests, but was hardly the most significant part of his life. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There are many historical inaccuracies, among them that Napoleon deserted his army in Egypt because he learned Josephine was having an affair back in France. That Nelson had destroyed his navy at the Battle of the Nile and left him isolated in the Middle East is never mentioned. Nor that he returned to France because he was afraid in his absence others would seize power.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Napoleon also deserted another army, this the one he led into Russia, and left it to be destroyed while he again saved himself. Estimates vary but of the 600,000 men he led into Russia it is generally agreed that fewer than 100,000 survived.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I suppose that Napoleon thought as have others like him that if these fools are willing to suffer and die for my glory, let them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Again estimates vary, but Napoleon was responsible for millions of deaths. A foremost current scholar puts the figure at 5,000,000. Yet the French built a more grandiose monument to the loser than the British did to the winners, Nelson and Wellington, whose remains are in the crypt of St. Paul’s. We are indeed a strange species of celebrity worshipers.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Don’t waste your time on NAPOLEON.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Imagine a time when two men have the power to destroy the world. Imagine that those two men are Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. Unimaginable. But that time may soon be at hand. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p>Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850431988375738943noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396539239718442243.post-44305214687334125872024-03-03T10:28:00.001-05:002024-03-03T10:49:37.844-05:00Lake Forest: roughing it; odd; two poems<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcd3RGe0uUBdHoU2paLmLlEf832WS7xfhaZbNRa7vkK5OzpGJ8OWM4A5cRemoLf2ofRpZLvAAJXRrz5g3ug40QqahgM2_F-fP1d_Febte8H8S6tIsSyoPU9RrsEjqhb-souRvvcYvig-SppDNJ5CV68WPoxrO9uNHVoWMekY1PkpVM1u3Sm68SxrWjL9r-/s1872/IMG_2725.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="1872" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcd3RGe0uUBdHoU2paLmLlEf832WS7xfhaZbNRa7vkK5OzpGJ8OWM4A5cRemoLf2ofRpZLvAAJXRrz5g3ug40QqahgM2_F-fP1d_Febte8H8S6tIsSyoPU9RrsEjqhb-souRvvcYvig-SppDNJ5CV68WPoxrO9uNHVoWMekY1PkpVM1u3Sm68SxrWjL9r-/s320/IMG_2725.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div> <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJIP_AafnlPVz1MMyYgqO02P3g3WsivErC7Uy2j-KDrIqqAd3SgMy6sVmube9_fYQwZGCt-PRa4ANeUaEWnLY-sW5wB2eDF8rcvguqYxVgqjlmYmmpnk-9miV9frIUiQ2T_5hWbbnZ6CVdk18h_q6IylrgrdlArDng3zH3PP8CAXIMKa-8cbnQKKHIfJ4c/s2048/IMG_2722.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1146" data-original-width="2048" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJIP_AafnlPVz1MMyYgqO02P3g3WsivErC7Uy2j-KDrIqqAd3SgMy6sVmube9_fYQwZGCt-PRa4ANeUaEWnLY-sW5wB2eDF8rcvguqYxVgqjlmYmmpnk-9miV9frIUiQ2T_5hWbbnZ6CVdk18h_q6IylrgrdlArDng3zH3PP8CAXIMKa-8cbnQKKHIfJ4c/s320/IMG_2722.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnUF91nfAhugVTuNcWxwMjOiIgbWAC6A15ugCaPCJSjNZCd3K6I71mJUDVO7lg2WGpj-vi4yDy122mb5Ga6rN1OYtSW8edDKCKa-9qq_muzN16Ts8gdohC8zrq1vWyDDuzSauLGmog5-_OZM9wzJGkkKnYPWvlRmfAMi8r6LsgOPiW_pRqrDiHh-IyBUS_/s1857/IMG_2723.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1051" data-original-width="1857" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnUF91nfAhugVTuNcWxwMjOiIgbWAC6A15ugCaPCJSjNZCd3K6I71mJUDVO7lg2WGpj-vi4yDy122mb5Ga6rN1OYtSW8edDKCKa-9qq_muzN16Ts8gdohC8zrq1vWyDDuzSauLGmog5-_OZM9wzJGkkKnYPWvlRmfAMi8r6LsgOPiW_pRqrDiHh-IyBUS_/s320/IMG_2723.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1ndJzLkWfF9Z8ZM_G24fVP8OM5PYVt39xA_DTh-8gJ8_tTC5kkT22pOa6NgSygCGyqwtJDk5zivTW3oG3vxhey2eXzKa1Wo8vi036pExzbWnvXG7PqsYawoTGfHkfiP8OhD2LIgS6LPBVcygbhd2xuP16ZhdlKSWrrXSV5fB5FHg6OIXzsnbEW1oo02PE/s1884/IMG_2724.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="1884" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1ndJzLkWfF9Z8ZM_G24fVP8OM5PYVt39xA_DTh-8gJ8_tTC5kkT22pOa6NgSygCGyqwtJDk5zivTW3oG3vxhey2eXzKa1Wo8vi036pExzbWnvXG7PqsYawoTGfHkfiP8OhD2LIgS6LPBVcygbhd2xuP16ZhdlKSWrrXSV5fB5FHg6OIXzsnbEW1oo02PE/s320/IMG_2724.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">To call Cape Horn The Everest of the Sea is an insult to Cape Horn.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You have probably seen the obscene photos of dozens of ‘climbers’ standing in line waiting their turn to summit Mt. Everest. The above photos were all taken at Base Camp to which you don’t even have to walk any longer. You can be flown up by helicopter after, as an article in THE TIMES OF LONDON, recently reports preparing by sleeping in a pressurized chamber in your own home. I wonder if soon it will be possible to ‘climb’ Everest and impress all your friends without the inconvenience of having to step outside.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Here is a link to the article:</span></p><p><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/everest-base-camp-sprawl-triggers-backlash-against-luxury-treks-lcrd2vptd">https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/everest-base-camp-sprawl-triggers-backlash-against-luxury-treks-lcrd2vptd</a></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinwaj65aJsyEtr0PvoH8uy0-Suc_IsN2i9cIKW5IIMMjb8BF0l7PcnDSC2rEeXc8_G6MtprcokkJmq_G69eLtkQ1xhKmIeGAHr2fGcTgnY-f0dnf6kDH3ua9wc_LiDfjrXzF2JOfqOvukTdJUhPNlEDCXcmXygI5uvSnC8GEbTEN2Vg-H88fBZ4rd16rKd/s2185/IMG_2726.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2185" data-original-width="2047" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinwaj65aJsyEtr0PvoH8uy0-Suc_IsN2i9cIKW5IIMMjb8BF0l7PcnDSC2rEeXc8_G6MtprcokkJmq_G69eLtkQ1xhKmIeGAHr2fGcTgnY-f0dnf6kDH3ua9wc_LiDfjrXzF2JOfqOvukTdJUhPNlEDCXcmXygI5uvSnC8GEbTEN2Vg-H88fBZ4rd16rKd/s320/IMG_2726.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This is a screen shot taken an hour ago of the Earth Wind Map which I look at each morning.</span></p><p><a href="https://earth.nullschool.net/">https://earth.nullschool.net/</a></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Until recently hurricanes were unknown in the South Atlantic. They are still rare, but that tight circle in mid-ocean certainly looks like it might become one, though the winds are presently only 45 knots. As you may have noted, the times they are changing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Two poems. The first from BEING ALIVE. The second from HOJOKI: THE HERMIT’S HUT AS METAPHOR.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlRgAycTaKT7dQFcVKISf5RghqTZ60Ij931obrWOGraSobbtY23WM0zF00sRrHY8lOLJdap2NI8CBp_TIf8yO1obHS0XrDCjSrc6pOcBteqAiwE879HoTB7VTwrKsHLAdFtMRsUxiSBYX_zvrBHxIdauPGTrPJvtIxmLuxGVL6HoaKN03-5oEjN70Zbenw/s1818/IMG_2149.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1818" data-original-width="1257" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlRgAycTaKT7dQFcVKISf5RghqTZ60Ij931obrWOGraSobbtY23WM0zF00sRrHY8lOLJdap2NI8CBp_TIf8yO1obHS0XrDCjSrc6pOcBteqAiwE879HoTB7VTwrKsHLAdFtMRsUxiSBYX_zvrBHxIdauPGTrPJvtIxmLuxGVL6HoaKN03-5oEjN70Zbenw/s320/IMG_2149.jpeg" width="221" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRW-9Gjk1W5Cl5fRDR-23wFelCuKCFzuS9_t5lQwPWGYQFTI3pG_jYsaHJGK-c6APQRYm7AxfYmMcr5-CgRQmluOWHkt4zJ-MsMVYumMGRGIVQKT3pTuxRx-CfICwkA3bLEIcs3w6GmjPfDfL5E3u1f0LKr-qxGyrFGRBtQzmcEJejuDXEi8VES1sdlsXD/s1808/IMG_2150.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1808" data-original-width="1364" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRW-9Gjk1W5Cl5fRDR-23wFelCuKCFzuS9_t5lQwPWGYQFTI3pG_jYsaHJGK-c6APQRYm7AxfYmMcr5-CgRQmluOWHkt4zJ-MsMVYumMGRGIVQKT3pTuxRx-CfICwkA3bLEIcs3w6GmjPfDfL5E3u1f0LKr-qxGyrFGRBtQzmcEJejuDXEi8VES1sdlsXD/s320/IMG_2150.jpeg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG4kQCy0RgLqp3m38kKpp8z-Pv79DjITX1ZxYQmcSmSN_EnK7WiY2aALB3pch-xK3CTXyCUDNIdeXbQ8iS4Pl9VavHDCg7HOJxY1BlPP87rsyGh4ks-hhl3QWZX6TPfHuL0rCPNrTBYmpGR6tY06GiJ1vfbmyev8EAcdMjrNRd4WBOSfesJjDFkYlpfVkd/s1551/IMG_2151.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1551" data-original-width="1186" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG4kQCy0RgLqp3m38kKpp8z-Pv79DjITX1ZxYQmcSmSN_EnK7WiY2aALB3pch-xK3CTXyCUDNIdeXbQ8iS4Pl9VavHDCg7HOJxY1BlPP87rsyGh4ks-hhl3QWZX6TPfHuL0rCPNrTBYmpGR6tY06GiJ1vfbmyev8EAcdMjrNRd4WBOSfesJjDFkYlpfVkd/s320/IMG_2151.jpeg" width="245" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850431988375738943noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396539239718442243.post-49409603331717499222024-02-29T14:04:00.002-05:002024-02-29T14:07:09.643-05:00Lake Forest: flew; Shackleton; Audubon; movement of cruising boats; the four components of war<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">18F when I woke this morning at 6 am. Now in early afternoon a balmy 35F. Obviously I am not on Hilton Head Island. I am in Lake Forest, Illinois, having flown here yesterday. Both my flights were delayed, but not disruptingly, and so it was merely a tiring day of sitting and waiting like obedient cattle. I am glad it is over.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Lake Forest is a nice place, but I am not looking out at water and beauty.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I expect to be here for at least two months as Carol retires from a long and successful career and we get rid of a lot of stuff and close down her apartment, following which she will drive us east to Hilton Head for what should be the very last time.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I thank David for a link to a website of immense beauty, John J. Audubon’s Birds of America, which includes reproductions of 435 of his watercolors. Almost everyone knows of Audubon, but I had never before studied his watercolors carefully. They are wonders. I have bookmarked the site and added it to my daily habits. I now view four or five birds a day with awe and appreciation.</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.audubon.org/birds-of-america">https://www.audubon.org/birds-of-america</a></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I thank James for a link to a nine minute film SOUTH about Ernest Shackleton’s attempt to reach the South Pole. The film contains fascinating original footage but requires some previous knowledge of what the men endured. If you do not know here is a link: </span></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Shackleton">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Shackleton</a></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And here is the link to the film:</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/BJ-6RJkuLlQ?si=6TgbG_uJsrkQZRTf">https://youtu.be/BJ-6RJkuLlQ?si=6TgbG_uJsrkQZRTf</a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I thank Doug for a link to Jimmy Cornell’s latest survey of the world wide movement of cruising boats which I had not seen.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I expect it still reflects residual effects of the pandemic, but perhaps people are truly becoming more timorous than they were.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It re-enforces my personal observations that the average cruising boat is now 45-50’ long and an increasing number are catamarans.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.cruisingworld.com/destinations/global-movement-cruising-boats/">https://www.cruisingworld.com/destinations/global-movement-cruising-boats/</a></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">While sitting and waiting yesterday, I read a great deal of UNKNOWN SOLDIERS, a novel by Vaino Linna about Finland’s part in WW2 in which, having been earlier invaded by the Soviet Union, they fought as allies of Germany. It is quite a good antidote to Horace’s <i>Dulce et decorum est pro patria </i>mori.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A quote:</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; 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font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p>Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850431988375738943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396539239718442243.post-49127318800870159032024-02-23T11:21:00.001-05:002024-02-23T11:24:39.723-05:00Hilton Head Island: power boater videos<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I shot two short videos at anchor on Port Royal Sound late Wednesday afternoon and uploaded them to YouTube yesterday.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you are interested here are the links:</span></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59fyltf5Xwo&t=3s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59fyltf5Xwo&t=3s</a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yET1-awENNE&t=3s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yET1-awENNE&t=3s</a></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In watching Power Boater 1 I saw that GANNET was indeed moving about a bit. I did not even notice it at the time, but there was cause for me to still feel her motion for five or six hours after I stepped ashore. </span></p>Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850431988375738943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396539239718442243.post-39989243896055491552024-02-22T17:48:00.001-05:002024-02-22T18:17:14.458-05:00Hilton Head Island: power boat<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I powered away from the dock yesterday. I powered back to the dock this morning. In between I set the sails in a forlorn hope of wind. It was a gesture. There was none. So I anchored a mile from land in Port Royal Sound, reorganized some things in the interior, sipped a glass of cabernet sauvignon and one of Laphroaig in the cockpit, while listening to music. Had an excellent freeze dry dinner of Alpine Aire’s Creamy beef with noddles and mushrooms, and slept well.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This morning numerous odd glitches occurred, among them that I had no cell phone coverage, which I learned after returning to the condo and reading the news happened to many. The Raymarine tiller pilot I used yesterday, this morning failed to respond to the port side buttons. I went below and brought up another. It did not respond at all. A third didn’t either. I brought up the Pelagic and it didn’t work either, though later at the dock it did. There were more which I forget, although I do remember that as I was approaching our slip I did not see the orange ring I have around the piling at one side of the slip. After I docked I found it stuck below the water. I could not reach it with my boat hook. I think it is stuck on barnacles.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Despite all this I enjoyed being on the water, which is even better than living next to it as we do, and living in that little space which so suits me.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Strangely, considering that GANNET only deviated from being level and rock steady on a couple of power boat wakes, I am still feeling her motion after five hours ashore. I don’t know how it is possible to feel motion that never existed, but I do.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I am presently sipping a Webb and have a Netherland’s Bach Society video on the TV of Bach’s French Suite Number 1 in D minor.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">L’Chaim.</span></p>Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850431988375738943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396539239718442243.post-78848573430085695172024-02-20T16:08:00.002-05:002024-02-20T16:12:18.278-05:00Hilton Head Island: excellent company; EINSTEIN AND THE BOMB; a memento; prepared<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Douglas has been repairing a family home in Scotland that will soon go on the market. He plans to build a small cabin somewhere in the Highlands where he will live a solitary life. He wrote to me recently, “Doubtless this will be considered crazy, but I will consider myself to be in excellent company.” I smile and wish him well. I know that alone he will indeed be in excellent company in the monastery of the land.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Last evening I watched an unexpectedly good movie on Netflix, EINSTEIN AND THE BOMB, In begins by stating that it is based on true events in Einstein’s life and that all the words are his own, either spoken or written during his life time. Among those words are his declaring his distrust of authorities and later in his life stating that he has been punished for that by being made an authority himself.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As has been stated here before I am among those who unequivocally believe that the atomic bombs should have been dropped on Japan. I have related that I have met over the years four men, two British, one Australian, one American, who told me that but for the atomic bombs they would not likely be alive. All were in mid-1945 being redeployed for the invasion of the Japanese home islands. The willingness of the Japanese to die to the last man had been proven at Iwo Jima and Okinawa and many other places. The estimated Allied casualties of the invasion of Japan was one million. Many, many more Japanese would have died. Only the atomic bombs enabled the Japanese to surrender without being obliterated.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The parts of the film about Hitler and the rise of Nazism and persecution of the Jews reminded me of a man I met many years ago.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">He must have been born about 1930 in Hamburg, Germany. In his early teens he was a member of the Hitler Youth. That in itself does not mean much. Membership was essentially mandatory. Physically he was the image of the Nazi ideal. Blood. Blue eyed. Handsome. Unfortunately he was small. Less than average height. Hardly an imposing member of the master race.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In 1945 while still a teenager he was among those too young and too old called into the army in Hitler’s last desperate and hopeless attempt to avoid defeat, which had been inevitable, unless the Germans developed the atomic bomb or some similar weapon before the Allies did, since Stalingrad and Kursk. He survived a few weeks of combat and after Hitler’s suicide and Germany’s unconditional surrender walked I know not how many miles back to his family in Hamburg.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">He studied and became a doctor of medicine and then, perhaps surprisingly, immigrated to the United States, one of the enemies against which he had fought, and had a successful medical career in Florida.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Hitler’s private yacht was confiscated at the end of the war and somehow ended up near Jacksonville, Florida. From this photo of a sister ship, she was an elegant 85’ yawl, the OSTWIND.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfAJ8BYv2_SIRUbZKvq1Q8yV0RsP3VV5aiX8m1oYqUGnx899kwNHwjLm5mrAfkxm8Qa6qkgXx7ILXNmzGOE2qpzF_KXw1ymqV_R8YcrX0nfNcwDFdoIKovEDiaxAzEEN7DiO5GKZnJoAVEVrQyjvYAmTjiR1fG2TyPuWo2F46_zULM-4NzYmS7khyGH1AA/s549/IMG_2718.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="549" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfAJ8BYv2_SIRUbZKvq1Q8yV0RsP3VV5aiX8m1oYqUGnx899kwNHwjLm5mrAfkxm8Qa6qkgXx7ILXNmzGOE2qpzF_KXw1ymqV_R8YcrX0nfNcwDFdoIKovEDiaxAzEEN7DiO5GKZnJoAVEVrQyjvYAmTjiR1fG2TyPuWo2F46_zULM-4NzYmS7khyGH1AA/s320/IMG_2718.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I would have expected Hitler to have a huge power boat. It is said that he was only on the OSTWIND a few times.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I met the man of whom I am writing on his own sailboat. During our conversation he pointed at a small finely crafted wooden jewelry box beside the chart table and told me with pride that he had it made from wood taken from Hitler’s private yacht.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">That is all there is to the story. I find it strange.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I biked to a supermarket and liquor store this morning and then down to GANNET where I fit the Evo on the stern. It started as it should and always has. I tested a tiller pilot. Moved the anchor and rode to under the forward hatch. Tightened lifelines. GANNET is ready to go sailing, but there is flat calm. Skull Creek is glassy. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Tomorrow I will go down to the little boat and take her from the dock, unless as is unlikely conditions prohibit that, and try to sail. If there is no wind I will power slowly and anchor somewhere for the night. I had planned to sail for a week or so in January, but COVID intervened. I fly to Chicago a week from tomorrow. This is my last chance for a while.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p>Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850431988375738943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396539239718442243.post-33753061799702680622024-02-17T18:23:00.006-05:002024-02-23T18:15:18.423-05:00Hilton Head Island: a little peace<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh48W0WjjmSHsKuxTM8u-WhVSTCwHWOvFGSxRlGmLzB6GACirWzERZoLXJomTYp8DLfmKcTSVZi5hducjPzDnAP86JIQn-E6V28KUAU_3__2C8cs42LyoZtWw5vA0G-2x3YYUiO41f4ioPsvl5fg02H8wZMdqdMgMr8EKhgUkp4NhwfU70tBcv0568iRIJO/s4032/IMG_1716.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh48W0WjjmSHsKuxTM8u-WhVSTCwHWOvFGSxRlGmLzB6GACirWzERZoLXJomTYp8DLfmKcTSVZi5hducjPzDnAP86JIQn-E6V28KUAU_3__2C8cs42LyoZtWw5vA0G-2x3YYUiO41f4ioPsvl5fg02H8wZMdqdMgMr8EKhgUkp4NhwfU70tBcv0568iRIJO/s320/IMG_1716.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Although the day in the marsh has been grey and cool, I put on a fleece and am having a martini and listening to music on deck. It is always better to be outside.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I know I have said this many times, but the beauty here is always startlingly new. And the quiet.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I sit looking out at gray and green and am at the moment at rare peace.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">When Carol and I first met and married, which were almost simultaneous, she asked for thirty years. We will have been married for thirty years this August, so I have willingly fulfilled my part of the bargain which has been the great chance grace of my life and will willingly extend the contract.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I am not quite halfway through my five year plan which if fulfilled will result in a voyage whose outcome cannot be known and may be fatal. The willingness to undertake such an endeavor, after planning and preparation, is as some of you know my definition of nerve. When you are 82 you don’t have much time left even if you seal yourself in a bubble. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">So I am enjoying this unexpected peace. I am going to continue to enjoy this to me new marsh beauty. I am going to enjoy my time with Carol. And books. And music. And using my aged body.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In the previous entry about numbers, there are some that might be world records created not intentionally, but as casual byproducts of how I have lived. The 3,000 mile first leg of the open boat voyage was later exceeded by a 4,000 mile passage from Singapore to Aden which might be the longest open boat passage ever. Eight times in Force 12 might be too. As might be putting the mastheads of four boats in the water. And completing circumnavigations in five successive decades. I don’t know that any of them are and I can’t prove them, other than the circumnavigations, but they might be. They were not intentional but perhaps quantifications of a life that repeatedly over a very long time in our species terms but is a butterfly’s cough in terms of the universe pushed beyond the edge of human experience and put words together that too have pushed beyond that edge. And if the body that has carried that life is still alive and healthy at the end of 2026 will again.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The image on my iPad is part of a music video, ‘Le vent nous porters’ which translates as ‘the wind carries us’ sung by Margarita Pirri. You might enjoy it. Here is the link:</span></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyzBuo53u_0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyzBuo53u_0</a></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">To life. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And pushing as hard as you can as long as you can and being grateful for whatever moments of peace you find.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850431988375738943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396539239718442243.post-32743296754699932702024-02-15T09:15:00.013-05:002024-02-25T11:03:13.994-05:00Hilton Head Island: Webb Chiles by the numbers<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-Vc48gXp3vtK1owHUOa0izaqGpukAIM4-ozwJAivKcEFJX2GsEp5Zx1IEpiNjb0Gr4f2H1bRXyDV23F4sGb4sD6Apkbxg5y7TtWGTUoaD_lEFg_Bt3GVT8lSaUiJxv7cd960I-ilBlLO7q4mJbBB138pEfbjTvN9PUXeh8idpX5UPmcVzFHWAAkTbLj1t/s4032/IMG_2707.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-Vc48gXp3vtK1owHUOa0izaqGpukAIM4-ozwJAivKcEFJX2GsEp5Zx1IEpiNjb0Gr4f2H1bRXyDV23F4sGb4sD6Apkbxg5y7TtWGTUoaD_lEFg_Bt3GVT8lSaUiJxv7cd960I-ilBlLO7q4mJbBB138pEfbjTvN9PUXeh8idpX5UPmcVzFHWAAkTbLj1t/s320/IMG_2707.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Steve Earley wrote most of this entry as well as took the above photo Tuesday evening while we were sipping drinks on the screened porch. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Six years ago for reasons no longer of importance, Steve compiled a list of Webb Chiles by the numbers. I did not know this until he recently mentioned it to me and then showed me the list. I found it interesting and amusing and asked permission to share it with you, which Steve graciously granted. I thank him.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I updated some numbers, such as my age and circumnavigations, and added a couple more, but it is Steve’s list from most to least. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you think of other numbers that ought to be included, please suggest them in a comment.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Webb Chiles by the numbers</span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">1,000,000+ published words: books, website, journal, magazine and newspaper articles, short stories, novella, poems</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">3,000 miles first leg of open boat voyage</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21.5px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">1,500 gallons of water bailed every twenty-four hours from EGREGIOUS during the weeks before reaching New Zealand</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21.5px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">82 years old</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21.5px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">57 years since bought first boat</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21.5px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">50 years since last worked for anyone else</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">30 years married to Carol</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">26 hours swimming and floating in the Gulf Stream after sinking RESURGAM</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">18 feet length of CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">16 days imprisoned in Saudi Arabia as a spy</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">15 times crossed the Equator</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21.5px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">10 years alone at sea</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">10 words in most famous quote</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21.5px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">8 boats owned</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21.5px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21.5px;">8 times in Force 12 wind</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21.5px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">6 circumnavigations</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21.5px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">6 times married</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">5 consecutive decades in which a circumnavigation has been completed<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">5 women married</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21.5px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">4 boats whose mastheads have gone in the water</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21.5px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">3 compasses on CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE, two of which went into the inflatable after she pitch-poled.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21.5px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">3 five year plans. </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21.5px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">2 times adrift with survival in question. </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21.5px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21.5px;">1 life<span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></p>Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850431988375738943noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396539239718442243.post-66878633635294867342024-02-13T20:03:00.010-05:002024-02-13T20:45:40.824-05:00Hilton Head Island: on engines, seas, mermaids, and tangles<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Douglas in Scotland recently sent me this quote from one of the books by the sailor/mountain climber, Bill Tilman. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I read some of Tilman books sixty years ago and so know of this remarkable man, though he was not my kind of sailor. </span></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Tilman">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Tilman</a></p><p><i style="font-family: helvetica;">We had with us no Belloc whose love for the sea and sail was equalled only by his hatred of machinery. 'I would rather die of thirst', he writes, 'ten miles off the headland in a brazen calm, than have on board what is monstrously called an auxiliary... For it is with headlands as with harbours, if you have machinery aboard your craft is gone. Whether it is done under sail or power, the rounding of a great cape, more especially a cape that divides two oceans, has about it something both solemn and elating. Although it is a normal and long foreseen step, the moment the cape looms in sight the pent-up hopes and fears of a long voyage focus themselves upon its successful rounding.</i></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I replied to Douglas, who also is I think responsible for making me aware of Vital Whey protein powder for which I am very grateful:</span></p><p><span face="-apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); caret-color: rgb(212, 212, 213); color: #313131; font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;"><i>I know of Tilman and read some of his books a very long time ago. Thanks for the quote which I will pass on in the journal, though I no longer agree with not having an engine. As you probably know I had EGREGIOUS built without one, CT never had anything but sails and oars, and GANNET can’t power more than a few miles. But a sailor is more independent now by having an engine than he is not having one because the harbors of the world are now set up with the expectation that vessels are able to power at least short distances. If not, you will have to ask for or pay for and wait for a tow at times no matter how well you and your boat sail. There are many places in harbors to which you cannot sail unless the wind and tide are exactly right.</i></span></p><p><span face="-apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); caret-color: rgb(212, 212, 213); color: #313131; font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span face="-apple-system, Helvetica Neue" style="color: #313131;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(212, 212, 213); font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;">I recently finished PESSOA AND COMPANY, one of the anthologies I have of the poems of the Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa. Toward the end I came across one which my aged memory tells me I have posted here before. If so, it was a while ago and worth reading again. This tiny nation claims to be first in all oceans. Perhaps they weren’t quite, but close enough.</span></span></p><p><span face="-apple-system, Helvetica Neue" style="color: #313131;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(212, 212, 213); font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span face="-apple-system, Helvetica Neue" style="color: #313131;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="-apple-system, Helvetica Neue" style="color: #313131;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbE9RFUJjtOQbkP2noce4NPqR49i0hDlapP_kWCm2287249UkXT4YbQuvr2piGyo1c44-BqQFm-KfJJqaicwAAwl5plPA4wh6hbme5FhKDANdW5POyI9q93dR14E2dYkO5SJ2e_SqMla0zK3eifgNjX5aqpRjm1x4AzswNyEpbeDqteOkd_HW560_1P-4z/s1402/IMG_2144.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1378" data-original-width="1402" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbE9RFUJjtOQbkP2noce4NPqR49i0hDlapP_kWCm2287249UkXT4YbQuvr2piGyo1c44-BqQFm-KfJJqaicwAAwl5plPA4wh6hbme5FhKDANdW5POyI9q93dR14E2dYkO5SJ2e_SqMla0zK3eifgNjX5aqpRjm1x4AzswNyEpbeDqteOkd_HW560_1P-4z/s320/IMG_2144.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span face="-apple-system, Helvetica Neue" style="color: #313131;"><br /><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(212, 212, 213); font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span face="-apple-system, Helvetica Neue" style="color: #313131;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(212, 212, 213); font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span face="-apple-system, Helvetica Neue" style="color: #313131;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(212, 212, 213); font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;">After finishing Pessoa I am now reading the anthology, BEING HUMAN, the third in the successful series which began with BEING ALIVE. </span></span></p><p><span face="-apple-system, Helvetica Neue" style="color: #313131;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(212, 212, 213); font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;">Here are the last lines of ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, a poem I admire about a man with whom I have nothing in common. The mermaids sang to me.</span></span></p><p><span face="-apple-system, Helvetica Neue" style="color: #313131;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(212, 212, 213); font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span face="-apple-system, Helvetica Neue" style="color: #313131;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="-apple-system, Helvetica Neue" style="color: #313131;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsppbUHNlUdI5QN2faQSrvcQixMCpBVhwDfHF4Nwh_MFFUMTxdFCmfJH3bi-9ROuvxSigXV5xdTKdfEAyuYrJ7SNbgw7E_6eCKKPtyblWdmxEoXHlQJXxmckAcRQhN-R6bHszB_OExg2BL4-nKbgVnBOAarVHs1bvPq5dFmest0LpggGR-zEYJ_aj1hKEA/s1648/IMG_2146.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1648" data-original-width="1411" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsppbUHNlUdI5QN2faQSrvcQixMCpBVhwDfHF4Nwh_MFFUMTxdFCmfJH3bi-9ROuvxSigXV5xdTKdfEAyuYrJ7SNbgw7E_6eCKKPtyblWdmxEoXHlQJXxmckAcRQhN-R6bHszB_OExg2BL4-nKbgVnBOAarVHs1bvPq5dFmest0LpggGR-zEYJ_aj1hKEA/s320/IMG_2146.jpeg" width="274" /></a></span></div><span face="-apple-system, Helvetica Neue" style="color: #313131;"><br /><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(212, 212, 213); font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span face="-apple-system, Helvetica Neue" style="color: #313131;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(212, 212, 213); font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span face="-apple-system, Helvetica Neue" style="color: #313131;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(212, 212, 213); font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;">And last from ONE HUNDRED LEAVES a poem that brought a smile.</span></span></p><p><span face="-apple-system, Helvetica Neue" style="color: #313131;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(212, 212, 213); font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span face="-apple-system, Helvetica Neue" style="color: #313131;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="-apple-system, Helvetica Neue" style="color: #313131;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtrOKLp5ij38FxOX0-Px4zsQYJkuyg71kWVOv83Vuxqx5XP08rM83MkmTm3zb1c9d5IEmeyyy8EbHm0s-UYYLn7reYHhef5jI7ZY3rd7jpJtYxZXo5GZ-6CyYq8vYV3bhR-3Fm4nMadln6-TADOLo3I52ZLgiaxAxVK0unLtCjiTxnaaUVzXuePQ6N7B1O/s1349/IMG_2145.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="723" data-original-width="1349" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtrOKLp5ij38FxOX0-Px4zsQYJkuyg71kWVOv83Vuxqx5XP08rM83MkmTm3zb1c9d5IEmeyyy8EbHm0s-UYYLn7reYHhef5jI7ZY3rd7jpJtYxZXo5GZ-6CyYq8vYV3bhR-3Fm4nMadln6-TADOLo3I52ZLgiaxAxVK0unLtCjiTxnaaUVzXuePQ6N7B1O/s320/IMG_2145.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span face="-apple-system, Helvetica Neue" style="color: #313131;"><br /><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(212, 212, 213); font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span face="-apple-system, Helvetica Neue" style="color: #313131;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(212, 212, 213); font-family: helvetica; font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;">I write sipping Laphroaig.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #313131; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(212, 212, 213); font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;">To life.</span></span></p><p><span face="-apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); caret-color: rgb(212, 212, 213); color: #313131; font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span face="-apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); caret-color: rgb(212, 212, 213); color: #313131; font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span face="-apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); caret-color: rgb(212, 212, 213); color: #313131; font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span face="-apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); caret-color: rgb(212, 212, 213); color: #313131; font-size: 17px; word-spacing: 1px;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p>Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850431988375738943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396539239718442243.post-6821916638244065512024-02-08T13:08:00.001-05:002024-02-08T13:08:14.367-05:00Hilton Head Island: Steve Earley’s winter cruise and a cup of coffee<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I have been remiss in not mentioning that Steve is now on his fourth annual winter cruise. He launched SPARTINA yesterday in Charleston and is making good progress today. The last time I checked he was moving at five knots. I expect he will be reach Hilton Head Island in time to watch the Taylor Swift Bowl. I also expect the telecast to have a divided screen with the main picture coming from a camera permanently fixed on Ms. Swift and the game itself in a small image in one lower corner.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You can follow Steve at his tracking page:</span></p><p><a href="https://maps.findmespot.com/s/T9MV#history/assets">https://maps.findmespot.com/s/T9MV#history/assets</a></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">and his website:</span></p><p><a href="http://logofspartina.blogspot.com/">http://logofspartina.blogspot.com/</a></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You can follow Taylor Swift everywhere.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I may be the only person on the planet who has never heard her sing.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I also forgot to mention yesterday that my breakfast includes a cup of black coffee. No sugar. So it adds nothing to my diet except liquid. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Of liquid, I have mentioned this before but it might be of interest to some. There is a general rule of ½ gallon of fresh water per person per day on a passage. I found repeatedly during GANNET’s circumnavigation that I used just over ⅓ of a gallon a day. .37 to be exact.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Also of liquid. It is Thursday. I get a real drink this evening. Actually two.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">To life.</span></p>Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850431988375738943noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396539239718442243.post-8025126637547377522024-02-07T14:17:00.015-05:002024-02-07T17:38:46.031-05:00Hilton Head Island: breakfast; two more poems from ONE HUNDRED LEAVES; and an aarticle<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrS-7Ps6PKUAi2jxgTYAINoiLCqgSSFXsHnx1CxOrPBH10Qdb_KqJwfP8TOtd8e94y-jfeRDK124COAkZ3wHeOXjV5w7kikmVqjuuE-GSUdsoIfM1Edidnm_PtnE7Y6RzWxJ2abxh71KfAbX-rXJ8HgRYhv4ZC231C_UIDwofOc8xGHaKkIUHt5ImVXi4q/s3203/IMG_1688.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3203" data-original-width="3022" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrS-7Ps6PKUAi2jxgTYAINoiLCqgSSFXsHnx1CxOrPBH10Qdb_KqJwfP8TOtd8e94y-jfeRDK124COAkZ3wHeOXjV5w7kikmVqjuuE-GSUdsoIfM1Edidnm_PtnE7Y6RzWxJ2abxh71KfAbX-rXJ8HgRYhv4ZC231C_UIDwofOc8xGHaKkIUHt5ImVXi4q/s320/IMG_1688.jpeg" width="302" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I was recently asked how I have managed to provision without refrigeration. As long time readers know part of the answer is above: my breakfast at sea and ashore and by far my biggest meal of the day.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A few years ago I downloaded an app and kept track of the calories I consumed, both food and drink. Here is the outdated summary of my breakfast.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9xqoJ8wpnK-vfXHUljyCQbZkGdnBQu2ycvNlvq1H-XokYcDLbY_keBtgja-1kGCt5sH3-FIZeL9qZT5OB19WKLBUM7fAdXUMmY2LhQdszcNd3x-HF1ct8JaDchNr7hyphenhyphenF2uoBBSRS34Q7-OGSX1BR_wJjZQ1O8dSdsJzaKH-RVD2hukWctdmNHNU5qCVxw/s1904/IMG_0541.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="868" data-original-width="1904" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9xqoJ8wpnK-vfXHUljyCQbZkGdnBQu2ycvNlvq1H-XokYcDLbY_keBtgja-1kGCt5sH3-FIZeL9qZT5OB19WKLBUM7fAdXUMmY2LhQdszcNd3x-HF1ct8JaDchNr7hyphenhyphenF2uoBBSRS34Q7-OGSX1BR_wJjZQ1O8dSdsJzaKH-RVD2hukWctdmNHNU5qCVxw/s320/IMG_0541.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The ingredients are still about the same, but the portions are now smaller. That is a trend I have noticed. Without planning to, over the past few years I am eating and drinking less.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I now have about 3 ounces of juice. I have ½ cup of uncooked oatmeal, not the ¾ cup shown above. I have about twenty blueberries, a half dozen raspberries and four or five blackberries, which reduces the calories in my bowl from 764 to about 685 and the grams of protein from 40 to about 37.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Most of that protein comes from the scoop of Vital Whey protein powder. The scoop comes in the package of powder and holds 20 grams or about .7 of an ounce. I buy Vital Whey from Amazon. It is more expensive than some whey powders, but I like it because the version they call Natural has no flavor.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The picture is of my breakfast this morning as it has been for decades almost every morning on land or sea. At sea the fruit and milk are dried.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Ashore I no longer eat much of a lunch. Often just some fruit and maybe a piece of toast. When I am here alone, dinner is whatever I can microwave. When Carol is here she cooks and she is an exceptionally inventive and good cook.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">At sea lunch has been a can of fish or chicken or Laughing Cow cheese, all with crackers, and dinner is a freeze dry meal.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I also have snacks, RX protein bars, chips, cookies, peanuts, chocolate, etc.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Of drinking there appears to be good science that proves you can handle alcohol less well as you get old. This has been my experience. Some of you may remember that a year or so ago I instituted the two glass per evening rule. I usually stick to it. And again without planning, two nights a week, usually Tuesday and Wednesday, have become ‘dry’ nights. Dry meaning no alcohol. This came about by my starting to drink 0% Heineken for my mid-afternoon liquid while sailing. I am not a big beer drinker and was drinking regular Heineken for the liquid not the alcohol. I find I like the 0% as much as regular, so have kept it on hand and one Tuesday I was reheating leftover pizza and decided to have a 0 Heineken with it. This became a habit. Tuesday 0 Heineken. Wednesday a tonic with lime. I cannot say that I notice any real difference in how I feel, but it is probably a good thing to do and certainly does no harm.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">So some evenings L’Chaim is said with more feeling than others.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZYgXCKik5-tVGjF3VxCil_q3vUUnty0TMglvDX1OidcgfwEQNexBrWwf-SvzO5dJDNnit2u9WXjmk5kqIoZkM_x4a6o3uY18viHMohSDskwOlBHDi8PQzktF9ykZ-JKcz-vkRuN3h3AmUNYNfeOvCGFYOkJs8MyunLnB3kNrgtEZCiOXAnJ-urntWowxv/s1671/IMG_2142.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1671" data-original-width="1124" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZYgXCKik5-tVGjF3VxCil_q3vUUnty0TMglvDX1OidcgfwEQNexBrWwf-SvzO5dJDNnit2u9WXjmk5kqIoZkM_x4a6o3uY18viHMohSDskwOlBHDi8PQzktF9ykZ-JKcz-vkRuN3h3AmUNYNfeOvCGFYOkJs8MyunLnB3kNrgtEZCiOXAnJ-urntWowxv/s320/IMG_2142.jpeg" width="215" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I am halfway through ONE HUNDRED LEAVES. Here are two more poems I particularly like. I will be sorry when the book ends and will surely, given time, read it again and again..</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The above illustrates the first poem.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Both poets lived about the year 1000.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiclX9tmp9hcv66z7eo-ILevLvHZ1FVoMAGSfAaeCxMYybdpdGvWKfRdvIN6CEPBt6Luc1DeG9lYnHEdmYT9eTlIa6b__qBNC2t7PqLfb0oKYmOPIAoXYAyKKwTxp3cOSudOAluaLRmfKRn5pf4e6ptDnhjtR7cXcSbRqNcFi6TqeiF2eBfbmnp-P0-FRj/s1331/IMG_2141.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1048" data-original-width="1331" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiclX9tmp9hcv66z7eo-ILevLvHZ1FVoMAGSfAaeCxMYybdpdGvWKfRdvIN6CEPBt6Luc1DeG9lYnHEdmYT9eTlIa6b__qBNC2t7PqLfb0oKYmOPIAoXYAyKKwTxp3cOSudOAluaLRmfKRn5pf4e6ptDnhjtR7cXcSbRqNcFi6TqeiF2eBfbmnp-P0-FRj/s320/IMG_2141.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYSnrbWihwhASbXilJ0EIMkS7JH0_XVMWebiZTKg3QyWlgI0iVmV0rQuiTzNvsGFlEYTNGEIELFBDgRKYKPJtE5lycFm7pATanXE3626rFv6G1Y3vV-m-mXb10UPeC7aUz1OMTjjgZu0nVwt5XU79N-VwkV7MMBvOGgUCVH0Gqp3w9hsKRlyWkFPwsnavF/s1199/IMG_2143.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1039" data-original-width="1199" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYSnrbWihwhASbXilJ0EIMkS7JH0_XVMWebiZTKg3QyWlgI0iVmV0rQuiTzNvsGFlEYTNGEIELFBDgRKYKPJtE5lycFm7pATanXE3626rFv6G1Y3vV-m-mXb10UPeC7aUz1OMTjjgZu0nVwt5XU79N-VwkV7MMBvOGgUCVH0Gqp3w9hsKRlyWkFPwsnavF/s320/IMG_2143.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I am told that the only article I wrote for paid publication last year is in the current issue of SAIL. I believe under the title ‘Destination Nowhere.’ I have not seen it in print. A month or so from now I will upload it here.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p>Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850431988375738943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396539239718442243.post-1327673706004213502024-02-05T15:51:00.003-05:002024-02-05T15:54:14.662-05:00Hilton Head Island: storms; two videos; two poems<br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEnMaq89JW0Bv_vBpviqpa3Fix6YovV3uiJNnNeUCY3mPXtl9vGatx9u_uQYOOTy6zrnRRvpt7mO4lov6jL_2WQEMBs9UFLihVfdGt7te0X_MXYU9OzfNjnMxNio8Yy9dAv3rEklhQzJDC_Y8PTnc1bBwF_Ze_zBMWRo75XLuZAGxFkEY6lm5Nglthy9h8/s679/IMG_2694.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="679" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEnMaq89JW0Bv_vBpviqpa3Fix6YovV3uiJNnNeUCY3mPXtl9vGatx9u_uQYOOTy6zrnRRvpt7mO4lov6jL_2WQEMBs9UFLihVfdGt7te0X_MXYU9OzfNjnMxNio8Yy9dAv3rEklhQzJDC_Y8PTnc1bBwF_Ze_zBMWRo75XLuZAGxFkEY6lm5Nglthy9h8/s320/IMG_2694.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I thank Larry for the above photo and the link to a video. I did at least write one of the poems, though more than forty years ago in which I made a serious miscalculation. The poem is more true now.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Those of you in the United States are probably aware that there are storms on both coasts. A front passed over Hilton Head Island yesterday with gale force wind forecast and rain. I heard heavy rain last night and we have light rain now, but on this, the more protected landward side of the island, we usually have much less wind than does the ocean side and experienced no gale. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">However the storm on the other coast is much more severe. Southern California is having worse weather than we are. The world is upside down.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I have seen several</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> photos online of boats driven ashore in the storms there. None more dramatic than the above. I do not know the story behind it. She is a nice boat. Or was. I think I see two rodes running into the water from the bow, so perhaps he has anchors out. If the boat is as close to the rocks as she appears, I don’t think anchors will save her. Even getting off that boat in those conditions without being injured would be difficult. As Larry said, a photo taken ten minutes later might have been revealing. I hope the sailor saved the boat and himself, but I don’t have much hope for the boat.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A short to me amazing video about an eagle whose eyesight is somewhat better than mine, but then so is yours, though yours is probably not quite as good as the eagle’s. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">.</span></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g95E4VSfj0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g95E4VSfj0</a></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A poem by the Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa, whose works I am presently re-reading, and one by me.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0MWjdW2D6kz_aMQODUeu-KrEyOZplQ5W9526NQ2sCK9TVORr_OUXJx9_m7XN3corv2wvFxyKQSerX9QKepACVTLBJ2-6q0axJOuXUcvhfkFbw1i95ogm_ZFsb1461CV2LBGI0LKdxcyQK1_GDE2rvPskxElRbPQA0orv0g4NalN1RCQRtOG2TFcnHS0O8/s1505/IMG_2140.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1505" data-original-width="1111" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0MWjdW2D6kz_aMQODUeu-KrEyOZplQ5W9526NQ2sCK9TVORr_OUXJx9_m7XN3corv2wvFxyKQSerX9QKepACVTLBJ2-6q0axJOuXUcvhfkFbw1i95ogm_ZFsb1461CV2LBGI0LKdxcyQK1_GDE2rvPskxElRbPQA0orv0g4NalN1RCQRtOG2TFcnHS0O8/s320/IMG_2140.jpeg" width="236" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3k4Ar87XTxoYkNAguK0RzIHSjNwszpYzRuTh7eEVmgr7VjPWQ3KHVepqaY-galMRCb_0iMSp66vmrddKIauGkZik4_JmfeG_03s8nin3p7S4aj_MY7MMWAu1nXBhFjhUK2AFpdPq-LvEFlMyBSWUGQ3Cu3W5dJO8tj7LlxbSSyJb0NmJe3Pi86Locr3n4/s1385/IMG_2693.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1385" data-original-width="1259" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3k4Ar87XTxoYkNAguK0RzIHSjNwszpYzRuTh7eEVmgr7VjPWQ3KHVepqaY-galMRCb_0iMSp66vmrddKIauGkZik4_JmfeG_03s8nin3p7S4aj_MY7MMWAu1nXBhFjhUK2AFpdPq-LvEFlMyBSWUGQ3Cu3W5dJO8tj7LlxbSSyJb0NmJe3Pi86Locr3n4/s320/IMG_2693.jpeg" width="291" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p>Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850431988375738943noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396539239718442243.post-26643451705962901882024-02-01T11:25:00.004-05:002024-02-02T17:50:10.417-05:00Hilton Head Island: some poems and SOCIETY OF THE SNOW<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLHkRwdHUmOsmlzQiLK9vcYpTBFkGHjlFqhLXKX8uMJNlRbibzqy6lHoodEhbCgMXIFmMixJmOlQpeB0OCfBsJ-Pb33HmLeOyIVnF4Bsz8DoR1OQDZGWWMeRp_0k3hyFC0UsYvNQt-VjrCkO4Lsq4puhQLMlmHF0cpgG5Y7F9j_mgKC5N5oby1n62VB4xw/s1707/Screenshot%202024-01-29%20at%2011.37.15%E2%80%AFAM.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1707" data-original-width="1125" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLHkRwdHUmOsmlzQiLK9vcYpTBFkGHjlFqhLXKX8uMJNlRbibzqy6lHoodEhbCgMXIFmMixJmOlQpeB0OCfBsJ-Pb33HmLeOyIVnF4Bsz8DoR1OQDZGWWMeRp_0k3hyFC0UsYvNQt-VjrCkO4Lsq4puhQLMlmHF0cpgG5Y7F9j_mgKC5N5oby1n62VB4xw/s320/Screenshot%202024-01-29%20at%2011.37.15%E2%80%AFAM.jpeg" width="211" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As regular readers know I read some poetry, Japanese or Chinese and Western, and I listen to some Bach everyday. Generally when I finish whatever book of poetry I am reading I scroll down in my library which is arranged by most recent on my iPad mini and start rereading whichever I last read longest ago. However, from time to time I go to Amazon to see if there is something new and recently bought a beautiful book, ONE HUNDRED LEAVES, which is a recent translation of the HYAKUNIN ISSHU, a collection of one hundred poems compiled about 1237 by Fujiwara no Teika. I find the book beautiful because each poem is preceded by an artwork, one of which is above. Here is the poem:</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0LmBk2JOfQ2l1FRekiSg3OLwsBO5sp27Equ4gj469rukaEF3ALOncuPQHymKyUNsDfS34aniCtT_Fzyp-jYAeQ4ksaURvjMFFyW5m7dD4l3FAS_cT2SNwMP7XOaTYredOA4CdHNhTkJrzaCOFK5WmfkmJYZC4Rg0ect9ItN54eEpv0fvR9aOlFC0CQLcx/s1432/IMG_2137.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="711" data-original-width="1432" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0LmBk2JOfQ2l1FRekiSg3OLwsBO5sp27Equ4gj469rukaEF3ALOncuPQHymKyUNsDfS34aniCtT_Fzyp-jYAeQ4ksaURvjMFFyW5m7dD4l3FAS_cT2SNwMP7XOaTYredOA4CdHNhTkJrzaCOFK5WmfkmJYZC4Rg0ect9ItN54eEpv0fvR9aOlFC0CQLcx/s320/IMG_2137.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">While I read using the Kindle app, I do so on an iPad mini because it has a color screen and also serves as a chartplotter. ONE HUNDRED LEAVES would not be as beautiful in black and while on a Kindle.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Here are two more poems from ONE HUNDRED LEAVES.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeDH75ZvMSoZipNB0uCsVHicw3OuO6JQdQDHDjz-H18Uw4W4hrT64wW0fUWXypSEJ2VYOBgfxNhyufhlHfJRrcE72BWF7Q9soOU02kh9dhWMF6AY3lJx9z_3MLvxeAZUfmYXm9LLcSudEOQpcOh7-A6WS5XNyY9qlLCRq5f6ZKHCQPswjwFFHiFKWAv_dQ/s1245/IMG_2136.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1061" data-original-width="1245" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeDH75ZvMSoZipNB0uCsVHicw3OuO6JQdQDHDjz-H18Uw4W4hrT64wW0fUWXypSEJ2VYOBgfxNhyufhlHfJRrcE72BWF7Q9soOU02kh9dhWMF6AY3lJx9z_3MLvxeAZUfmYXm9LLcSudEOQpcOh7-A6WS5XNyY9qlLCRq5f6ZKHCQPswjwFFHiFKWAv_dQ/s320/IMG_2136.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCPobl487Jhmdqb2dfBdSYHch2D6zLXRyi8ZM8XnKA-HLKJ7TPNqXwtXtxfTbcHtXL4HAz8ih56HA85UinOSPdCRs7HGskK6Fe4FtSBYFHFrVFsCzG9UE3JCs-PxqHbfF9vbmnHZvD35qttrzvfVx2qgBYoCBSOi6_ALMdMHLZoT3a8BAMubPKi0fFc918/s1431/IMG_2138.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="962" data-original-width="1431" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCPobl487Jhmdqb2dfBdSYHch2D6zLXRyi8ZM8XnKA-HLKJ7TPNqXwtXtxfTbcHtXL4HAz8ih56HA85UinOSPdCRs7HGskK6Fe4FtSBYFHFrVFsCzG9UE3JCs-PxqHbfF9vbmnHZvD35qttrzvfVx2qgBYoCBSOi6_ALMdMHLZoT3a8BAMubPKi0fFc918/s320/IMG_2138.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I am presently only at poem twenty-five. I limit myself to five a day. So you may see more in the future.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">From the previous book of Japanese poetry I was reading, THE CLASSIC TRADITION OF HAIKU, the first by Masaoka Shiki, 1867-1902; the second by Arakida Moritake, 1472-1549.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgciv754fV7tGlHGmCu-vRUwGvioId3wioI-Km2A9QH44ATUPVaE0-Yp6ElHgoMwwsMpXjFgIzBUGCXCAx4CqPtewUKwk-WXyIGCVyLG6i-bFF3CViIn3t77B4NBMhYQ8y_QJRkwkYZZKNrjaFAjrbPqu_T2MXb0YHFAJLxD1iyresJNh1jVjwTqO8KL10k/s1243/IMG_2133.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1243" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgciv754fV7tGlHGmCu-vRUwGvioId3wioI-Km2A9QH44ATUPVaE0-Yp6ElHgoMwwsMpXjFgIzBUGCXCAx4CqPtewUKwk-WXyIGCVyLG6i-bFF3CViIn3t77B4NBMhYQ8y_QJRkwkYZZKNrjaFAjrbPqu_T2MXb0YHFAJLxD1iyresJNh1jVjwTqO8KL10k/s320/IMG_2133.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgcns_XgsEAk_z1gA4YwSRgs4OsvIFVEkXr2RfU3n-M2Vg2lMX_CH3b5JNfV3be28eW2x5jwy-WpKCKBHI1m8ONch2lnS1rzeSA_eGvuXpGHBfiSdubpKIEOxRJgxMVt1rN0Jdktjlqd0iDGJ3sHo9y3r2xe4retPyl9A-k7Gx67syvUeUYL6z5b3KPtvY/s1263/IMG_2134.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="1263" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgcns_XgsEAk_z1gA4YwSRgs4OsvIFVEkXr2RfU3n-M2Vg2lMX_CH3b5JNfV3be28eW2x5jwy-WpKCKBHI1m8ONch2lnS1rzeSA_eGvuXpGHBfiSdubpKIEOxRJgxMVt1rN0Jdktjlqd0iDGJ3sHo9y3r2xe4retPyl9A-k7Gx67syvUeUYL6z5b3KPtvY/s320/IMG_2134.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Compare the last with:</span><p></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglJsjATSikN-U8CVOfqKs8KC0aAestfm2U3HQUSPI-qaQqyIHM3pDG-pnxMvDEwIg8kKke1fD23cJ3yKPe-cN_4joS7yZ0IZ4W0WGQt8W1GESJgUqUajP9cEEufysXVdr5JT9uf4ZmMQVhNAhzhqsXj6f2AUcpcBeIDPsn54GZ3CgMwftjkn4DP9QsI2jC/s1018/IMG_2690.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="1018" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglJsjATSikN-U8CVOfqKs8KC0aAestfm2U3HQUSPI-qaQqyIHM3pDG-pnxMvDEwIg8kKke1fD23cJ3yKPe-cN_4joS7yZ0IZ4W0WGQt8W1GESJgUqUajP9cEEufysXVdr5JT9uf4ZmMQVhNAhzhqsXj6f2AUcpcBeIDPsn54GZ3CgMwftjkn4DP9QsI2jC/s320/IMG_2690.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">whose author you know.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Last evening I watched on Netflix, SOCIETY OF THE SNOW, which is the true story of those who survived a plane crash in the Andes for seventy-two days in part by reasonably resorting to cannibalism of the frozen bodies of those who died. There have been other movies and books about this. I think this one is very well done, honest without being sensational. If you watch, continue through the closing credits behind which are shown photographs of the actual survivors.</span></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_the_Snow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_the_Snow</a></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p>Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850431988375738943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396539239718442243.post-29868268133850984392024-01-27T14:05:00.004-05:002024-01-27T17:52:02.466-05:00Hilton Head Island: castaways; pathfinders; Einstein; glad it isn’t me<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihdr33gtu4hKKebqmkJLFzmPQTbc93hpB6HaF4eoIGzV261afGS3yw_PnBx3CdXEYABRiwdIMRFE2aZU-cBXbSvx3x5_Ooq_KQ7bPiA861L3wLLUC7R49p_uci4sNMoXMj6J9X40Ge058DqeFFOsY44jziCGXkqRMg-DFE6wqjonxDjad-MAizQ9wExsxP/s480/IMG_2677.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="480" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihdr33gtu4hKKebqmkJLFzmPQTbc93hpB6HaF4eoIGzV261afGS3yw_PnBx3CdXEYABRiwdIMRFE2aZU-cBXbSvx3x5_Ooq_KQ7bPiA861L3wLLUC7R49p_uci4sNMoXMj6J9X40Ge058DqeFFOsY44jziCGXkqRMg-DFE6wqjonxDjad-MAizQ9wExsxP/s320/IMG_2677.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> Almost all of this entry comes from others. </span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">First, I thank David for providing me with links to the story of six teen-aged Tongan boys who were castaways on a tiny uninhabited island for fifteen months. They wanted to get away from their boarding school and stole a 24’ boat. While anchored, the rode broke and they drifted from the main Tongan island, Tongatapu, almost ninety miles southwest to ‘Ata, where they survived in a real life complete opposite to William Golding’s novel, LORD OF THE FLIES.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Here are links to a Wikipedia article and twenty-one minute film about their experience, both of which I find fascinating and you may too.</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongan_castaways">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongan_castaways</a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYebOCCoTYM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYebOCCoTYM</a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I am reading PATHFINDERS: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF EXPLORATION by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Fernandez-Armesto’s thesis is that the history of our species is divided into two parts: divergence and convergence. The first began when some of us left Africa between 60,000 and 90,000 years ago and spread over the world being changed by climate and isolation. The second, the coming back together through land and sea routes and modern technology, he dates back about 10,000 years from our present.</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I have found that there is scientific disagreement about these dates and even about when our species first evolved, but whatever the dates, the concept seems to me sound and the book interesting. Of the four hundred pages, the last three hundred are about the last five or six hundred years.</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">One fact Fernandez-Armesto points out and that I knew without understanding is that except in the Indian Ocean which has a 180 º seasonal wind shift from northeast in the northern winter to southwest in the northern summer, the early voyages of exploration were made to windward. I knew that this was true in the Pacific Ocean but had not thought it through. Fernandez-Armesto states they sailed into the complete unknown to windward because if they found nothing or encountered difficulties, they could turn down wind and have a good chance at making their way back home.</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Some of his information seems to me to be wrong. He claims strong currents from the west made it difficult for ships to leave the Mediterranean through the Strait of Gibraltar. I have sailed that strait five times in three different boats without noticing significant currents. I have the sense that Fernandez-Armesto is a fine scholar, but not likely a sailor.</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Here are some quotes he uses in the book. I have not finished it and so there may be more.</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeqA2QPBArdSPxnVgF8i6BBU6or8izaUrTcilTVVS0RhyphenhyphenOYWqF4x8H0J_QdKTmoSyte2RAJEjsI5sYpiBxkke2aap_10lUbfKMt5LBzF5fCbhXpdQJ2h7hU-Mq1XOHmzqoa0zeh8uTIwGIP02fkjxkYxVhDVH5gEaHodvV9WGQEgQnIqsEssVgPFEMP6LA/s1390/IMG_2129.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1390" data-original-width="1190" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeqA2QPBArdSPxnVgF8i6BBU6or8izaUrTcilTVVS0RhyphenhyphenOYWqF4x8H0J_QdKTmoSyte2RAJEjsI5sYpiBxkke2aap_10lUbfKMt5LBzF5fCbhXpdQJ2h7hU-Mq1XOHmzqoa0zeh8uTIwGIP02fkjxkYxVhDVH5gEaHodvV9WGQEgQnIqsEssVgPFEMP6LA/s320/IMG_2129.jpeg" width="274" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOqKYkUkbHsF41l9SOMSFRaYQ2BX7xQM5k1Goqk5v3uqLhgTE8C5EvaSNIJMiZrbW9wO0k-SF0eKzYt9A8Bpr7lcNbLGOlyOPSEwZFJZx5Irl98e0vMGbgUVqNAfNdpbZ2j8pia8OE7grdgIaxT65zt58dTMGilGkJR44Mx9Tj8Dt8-RRYK9E-oePqM03_/s1149/IMG_2130.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1028" data-original-width="1149" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOqKYkUkbHsF41l9SOMSFRaYQ2BX7xQM5k1Goqk5v3uqLhgTE8C5EvaSNIJMiZrbW9wO0k-SF0eKzYt9A8Bpr7lcNbLGOlyOPSEwZFJZx5Irl98e0vMGbgUVqNAfNdpbZ2j8pia8OE7grdgIaxT65zt58dTMGilGkJR44Mx9Tj8Dt8-RRYK9E-oePqM03_/s320/IMG_2130.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I have long known that calling our species homo sapiens is a cosmic joke. The latin means ‘wise’ or ‘knowing’ man. Really? What passes for the news and history prove otherwise. We are homo insipiens, foolish man. Another better choice than sapiens would be homo narcissus, narcissistic man, who not only named himself ‘wise’ but who until a few centuries ago thought the entire universe revolved around him and this small, obscure planet. Carl Linnaeus is responsible for naming us homo sapiens. He really should have known better.</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This is preface to an amusing if tragic quote from Albert Einstein. I thank Larry for sending it to me. I have googled and it seems that Albert did say this or something close.</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”</i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I thank Alan for the photo taken by one of his neighbors who owns a Moore 24 at a Moore regatta on Huntington Lake two years ago. Were I to provide a caption it would be: I am glad it isn’t me. Those who race Moores push the great little boats’ limits in different ways than I do. I have put GANNET’s masthead in the water three or four times, but never to windward, and I fervently hope never to do so.</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">For myself I am enjoying days of perfect weather. Highs around 70F/21C. Lows in the high 50sF/14-15C. I am living mostly outside. Writing this in early afternoon on the screened porch. My sunset drinks the past two nights have been on deck and will be again this evening. My breakfast uncooked oatmeal eaten here on the porch. I am feeling quite well. I biked several miles this morning and when I do my resistance band workout later this afternoon will have worked out five of the last six days. COVID<span> ain’t what it used to be. At least for those of us who are vaccinated,</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To life.</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; 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font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p></div>Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850431988375738943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396539239718442243.post-86024081076055378932024-01-21T13:36:00.004-05:002024-01-21T13:38:20.561-05:00Hilton Head Island: an interview; negative; clarification<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Paul Trammell invited me to be interviewed on his Offshore Sailing and Cruising Podcast. I agreed and we did a Zoom interview Wednesday. Paul, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">who lives on board his Cartwright 40 presently in Panama,</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> asked some original questions and I enjoyed talking with him. If you can stand an hour of me, the interview can be seen at:</span></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu7RYHsGPYk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu7RYHsGPYk</a></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">or heard at:</span></p><p><a href="https://www.paultrammell.com/podcast-season-6">https://www.paultrammell.com/podcast-season-6</a></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I thank Paul for the invitation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I have been taking a COVID test every other day. On Friday morning the second line was very faint, which caused me to believe that the virus was weakening. I felt well enough that day to do my full workout for the first time in two weeks. I thought I might have difficulty breathing, but I didn’t. This morning the test was negative. Excellent. I’ll take another in two days and if it too is negative I will declare myself cured.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A couple of friends have written asking if the yahoo email address is now my primary email. It is not. I set that up to be the contact email for my main site after the former contact email address there ceased to function. Like most of us I have multiple email accounts for different purposes. One personal. One for businesses. And now one for the main site contact. If you have been emailing me, you can continue to use the address you have been using.</span></p>Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850431988375738943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396539239718442243.post-21290331259179664272024-01-18T13:16:00.002-05:002024-01-18T19:59:59.228-05:00Hilton Head Island: Bali: sixteen shades of darkness and intimation of mortality<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghX7PIIjpLg_2j0YLUxBMyie0b25hVDWGN5VT3FdNd6PRMEnj2x176_FqKzhWC5eWyexs_dn5Ax8zFiwViy4iWdAYjlVb1tVtkV3IM0XEAGAIBwKp1ys9QfaGokeBEkrq1yVqolOldaXzc0VjU0PjroKQ6UTtz_xAYzG8vH-gNRrcVSsM5tWtBblpc488j/s3033/IMGP0133.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="3033" height="116" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghX7PIIjpLg_2j0YLUxBMyie0b25hVDWGN5VT3FdNd6PRMEnj2x176_FqKzhWC5eWyexs_dn5Ax8zFiwViy4iWdAYjlVb1tVtkV3IM0XEAGAIBwKp1ys9QfaGokeBEkrq1yVqolOldaXzc0VjU0PjroKQ6UTtz_xAYzG8vH-gNRrcVSsM5tWtBblpc488j/s320/IMGP0133.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I recently had reason to reread part of THE OCEAN WAITS, here are two sections I particularly like.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The first was written the night I approached Bali on the thousand mile passage from Darwin, Australia.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The second describes a cremation Suzanne and I saw there now more than forty years ago. That boy is now likely a father who has held his own sons on his shoulders to look into the flames.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The photo is of gujungs, local one man fishing boats, which I followed through the pass into Benoa Harbor.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And here is a photo taken during the cremation and a forgotten one of me rarely unmustached.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidmBqWdCFRWjt_kLs-Ujtk91mANEw1w8GOZfuolXw9wI5Anxji9CJh1LZQ00tBkCYYpPyGbk090Cp4EwPkLKctxyieun3BevUeuTLuUXobE4n5GX3TpxNGoxKUBAZfqsn6xpbNNSKZF7p8lph71RbiY8BN-H2jMe7HaiquNPrJCSGsl8rH0yLuevaoPuSy/s2706/IMG_1679.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1847" data-original-width="2706" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidmBqWdCFRWjt_kLs-Ujtk91mANEw1w8GOZfuolXw9wI5Anxji9CJh1LZQ00tBkCYYpPyGbk090Cp4EwPkLKctxyieun3BevUeuTLuUXobE4n5GX3TpxNGoxKUBAZfqsn6xpbNNSKZF7p8lph71RbiY8BN-H2jMe7HaiquNPrJCSGsl8rH0yLuevaoPuSy/s320/IMG_1679.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2yexS5AT9HLjjfyk1X1Cd4PjuSAYI0YQY8edrETaeBIv5XLjUnAs9AjZx0xdOmlhhi59QTc1C4aAK63PKkqaubtFZfTkT5br4ulDOQqxnB75X1n0JrzevbPJJNF3UA3oHVmVJ2CeDAH89M_it-xWU223n93PULS8Mj-DcDaJzd_H_V6pyFiWQw4pk1hL-/s1826/IMG_1681.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1743" data-original-width="1826" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2yexS5AT9HLjjfyk1X1Cd4PjuSAYI0YQY8edrETaeBIv5XLjUnAs9AjZx0xdOmlhhi59QTc1C4aAK63PKkqaubtFZfTkT5br4ulDOQqxnB75X1n0JrzevbPJJNF3UA3oHVmVJ2CeDAH89M_it-xWU223n93PULS8Mj-DcDaJzd_H_V6pyFiWQw4pk1hL-/s320/IMG_1681.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For the present, while I do not feel ill, my full energy has not returned and</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> I am still testing positive for COVID.</span><div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">On a moonless night I found sixteen shades of darkness. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Six were in the sky: an overall blackness of the heavens; a diffuse gray to the west, although the sun had set hours earlier; the pinpricks of the stars; a few scattered shadows that were clouds; the flow of the Milky Way; and sporadic flashes of lightning far to the north. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The sea revealed even less than the sky. It seemed to have turned in upon itself and to be studying its own depths for hidden memories. It breathed with deep, low respirations, in rhythm to a long, low swell from the south. The waves, only inches high and from the east, were a lighter gray than the swell, or—rather—than the back of the swell, for it was not visible until it had passed. The shadows of clouds, shadows of shadows, were impenetrably dark. And there were a few flashes of phosphorescence as <span style="font-style: italic;">Chidiock Tichborne </span>ghosted forward. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">On <span style="font-style: italic;">Chidiock </span>could be found six more shades. The featureless triangle of the mainsail undulated above me. Around me was an indistinct cockpit. A solid black line marked the teak gunwale's absorption of all light. And there were the vaguely golden columns of the varnished masts; lumps of bags; and my own form, clad in foul weather gear. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The foul weather gear was worn in this instance not in anticipation of bad weather, but because everything was covered with evening dampness. For me, on even the best of nights, foul weather gear serves as pajamas. I wondered about the impressionist tenet that all shadows have color.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">In all that I saw, only a few stars, the masts, and the foul weather gear revealed even subdued color, hidden as though beneath a thousand years of soot. Yet perhaps more color was there.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">When I had exhausted these permutations of darkness, my mind moved outward. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic;">W</span><span style="font-style: italic;">e sat waiting on the steps of the temple. The sun was very hot, and others sat beneath palm trees or beside the houses along a track leading away from the village. From time to time we had to move aside for women going up or down the steps or for girls selling cold drinks or clothing, which they carried tied in bundles on their heads.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Everyone waited patiently, although even in the shade sweat ran. For the first hour most of the people in the crowd were tourists. I found myself watching a beautiful, tall, blond girl in a purple sari with metallic threads that flashed in sunlight when she moved, and a German who kept making adjustments to a movie camera on a tripod. After a while, though, the crowd began to swell with villagers.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Just before noon a man climbed the stone steps of the temple and began beating out a slow rhythm on a gong.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; min-height: 12.6px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">As soon as the gong stopped, men burst from the compound and ran to a bamboo tower. The tower was ten feet tall and covered with white and gold paper and with streamers of every color. It was tapered and capped by a gold canopy over a narrow pallet. With a grunt, the men lifted the tower and carried it around to the entrance of the temple.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Women filed silently down the steps and began shuffling along the road. Over their heads, they held a long train of white cloth. From a distance they looked like the legs of a giant centipede.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">A bamboo ladder was positioned against the tower, and the body, itself wrapped in white cloth, was brought out of the temple. This was a heavy bundle, and the men strained as they handed it up the ladder.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">One man remained on one side of the tower and tied the body to the pallet with bamboo lashings, while another placed offerings of clothing and food and cups and ornaments in the tower. Two live birds were tied to the corner of the canopy.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">When everything was in place, curtains were drawn around the pallet until only the end of the bundle could be seen.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The procession was a parade.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The men sweated and strained as they carried the tower through the village, but they were happy, not solemn.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Traffic piled up behind us, but when the drivers saw the reason for the delay, they did not lean on their horns.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">People came from the shanty shops to join us, crossing the drainage ditch beside the road on planks of wood, as though crossing a moat.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">At the crossroads in the middle of the village, the tower was turned in a circle three times. The crowd cheered at the completion of each revolution and each time the tower was successfully tilted to clear over head power lines. Once, the tower leaned over so far it seemed certain to fall, but men rushed from the crowd to help and the body did not touch the earth.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Our way, even after we left the narrow paved road for an even narrower path beside a rice paddy, was always bordered by walls: walls hundreds of years old, hidden beneath thick layers of dirt and green-black mold; ruined walls, carved with crumbling gods; new walls of cinder block or brick; walls so high we could not see over them; walls so low they were mere suggestions of ownership; well cared for walls, covered with fresh paint; forgotten walls, reclaimed by the jungle.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I had not realized before that Bali is so much a place of walls, but after that day, I saw them everywhere. On so small and so crowded an island, walls are a necessity.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; min-height: 12.6px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Thousands jammed the cremation grounds. The heat and smell became stifling as we jostled and swayed against one another. Bamboo towers rose like islands from the sea of people. Some were shaped like animals; some, like mythological beasts; some, like flesh-consuming gods. Three held bodies.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The body we had followed was placed inside a giant white paper cow, along with the offerings of food and clothing, but not the live birds. The squawking birds were tossed like a bridal bouquet into the clamoring hands of the men who had carried the tower through the village.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">It seemed to take much longer to transfer the offerings from the tower than it had taken to place them there. The crowd sagged as people began to faint. Finally the back of the cow was lowered.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">A cloud of smoke drifted down on us. Then there was smoke everywhere and flames shot up into the sky as all the towers were lit.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The white cow crumbled in a wave of sparks. Beside me a small boy sat on his father's shoulders. His eyes were huge, as though he was seeing himself, someday, there in the flames.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; min-height: 12.6px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Ashes. Filled the sky. Covered the ground. Caught in our hair and eyes. We breathed shallowly behind our hands.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">The smoke had dispersed the crowd. Low flames licked at the frames of charred towers.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">As we made our way from the grounds, the smoke thickened, then swirled and thinned to reveal a monstrous face, a mask somehow untouched by the fire, striped red and black and white, its great mouth turned upward in a hideous grin.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.3px; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">I wondered if it was a vision of death. Or a symbol of life renewed beyond the ashes. Or just a final, appropriately ambivalent image for Bali.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /></p><div><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p></div>Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850431988375738943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396539239718442243.post-73398999936327110042024-01-11T20:03:00.009-05:002024-01-11T20:52:38.604-05:00Hilton Head Island: working without a net and an implied health bulletin<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A reader recently emailed asking if I had a VHF radio on CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I did not.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A current member of the famous high wire family, The Flying Wallendas, said that he regretted having to wear a safely harness to perform one of his feats as demanded by the network that was televising it and paying him millions and did not want to chance a live audience watching him fall to his death. I did not see it and don’t recall what it was. I believe him. There is a seismic difference in working without a net. He knew that. I do too. However he overcame his scruples and wore the harness and took the millions.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">No one offered me millions, but for my first three circumnavigations I worked without a net. I still work essentially without one and I regret that I could call for help with my Yellowbrick. I do not carry it for that purpose, but to let Carol know where I am and if I could disable the SOS button I would. I went to sea alone and with no way to call for help. I thought that just. I went out there on my own and I had no right to expect the society I had chosen to leave behind to save me from trouble of my own making. I don’t know that anyone else will understand that. It is so at </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">variance with current standards. I do know that it is possible to be in a hurricane at sea and not call for either god or man to save you. I’ve been there eight times and never did. I don’t know that anyone else will understand that either. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">On my fourth I did have a handheld VHF radio after being troubled by South African port authorities for not communicating with them as I entered harbors. So I could then have called for help if anyone was within seven or eight miles, as almost no one ever was. There was then and as far as I know now no international regulation that a private sailing vessel carry any radio at all, but I gave in and bought a handheld VHF and have found that it does make dealing with authorities as I enter a foreign port easier.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This was 1987 or 88. South Africa was on a war footing, having sent land forces north to Angola to try to intervene in a civil war and all ports and lighthouses were staffed by the military.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Jill and I sailed north from South Africa, which then governed what is now Namibia. The main port in Namibia is Walvis Bay. I seldom enter harbors after dark but we approached the entrance to the harbor at 11 PM on a full moon night. This was before GPS but I could see that if I followed a certain depth I would safely round the point and could steer directly for the docks where I would anchor and wait until dawn. This I did.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">At about 6 am I woke and called the Port Captain on my handheld VHF. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In a strong South African accent he asked, “What time did you anchor?”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I said, “About midnight.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">He said, “When I came on duty an hour ago I called Pelican Point Light and asked ‘What time did the yacht pass?’ And they said, ‘What yacht?’ And I said to myself ‘So much for our defense forces.’</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I just watched an interesting documentary on Amazon Prime, THE BECKONING SILENCE, about the deaths in the 1930s of climbers trying to be the first to scale the north face of the Eiger. What is interesting is the story of how those climbers died, particularly the last of them after enduring all but inhuman struggle and suffering. What is regrettable is that the narrator, who himself became famous by almost dying, calls climbing a game and admits that he has lost his passion. Both are probably related and both prove that he is not real. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I have never thought of pushing beyond limits as a game. I have always known that our species needs a few such individuals and that it is what I was genetically designed to do. And as an old man I know that, unless weakened by injury or health beyond your control, if you lose your passion it was not real.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">That I am writing this is proof that I am feeling better. I could not have written it yesterday.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Thus far I would class my COVID as less than a case of the flu. I have a chest cough. A runny nose. But the main symptom has been fatigue. Yesterday and the day before I had almost no energy. Just getting out of bed was a struggle. I slept intermittently for eleven hours last night and woke feeling much better today. Not my usual self, but moving that way. This is not a controlled experiment. There is no way of knowing how the virus would have affected me had I not been vaccinated, including the most recent boosters.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I read that the uptake of the most recent boosters has been low. Maybe only 7% of those eligible to receive them have done so.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> I am starting to expect that we are all going to get COVID sooner or later, just as we all get flu sooner or later, and more than once. If you die unvaccinated you get no sympathy from me. You have self-selected yourself out. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p>Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850431988375738943noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396539239718442243.post-33173823995958662302024-01-09T12:23:00.007-05:002024-01-09T12:30:53.799-05:00Hilton Head Island: people are hazardous to your health<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I am usually not much around people, but last Friday I flew to Charlotte and returned Sunday and so was around a lot of people on planes and in airports. Yesterday morning I woke with a moderately sore throat and a cough and was tired all day. I didn’t even consider doing my scheduled workout. So I took a COVID test and it is definitely positive. I am of course fully vaccinated. Thus far I don’t feel very ill, not even as much as a routine head cold. No aches. No pains. No fever. However I am usually outrageously healthy. I don’t recall the last time I was ill. Years ago. And I don’t like it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I have cancelled two routine medical and dental appointments scheduled later this week.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I had been planning on going sailing next week weather permitting and have just had a diver clean GANNET’s bottom. I didn’t know where. Maybe out to sea. Maybe up to Charleston. Maybe both. Now that seems unlikely to happen.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In the more immediate future a strong front is approaching and we have a gale warning and a tornado watch for this afternoon. The wind is already gusting 28 knots at the airport three miles away and is forecast to go above 40 knots later.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I look out on gray and green. Complete low misty overcast. Intermittent rain. Spanish moss and live oaks dancing wildly.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p>Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850431988375738943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396539239718442243.post-76087454588364495282024-01-05T08:31:00.006-05:002024-01-05T09:17:27.213-05:00Hilton Head Island: changeless<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRUqmm2KRfJe0vt_h4a_d-soWS_KUgM_fawYDYiqcouv8dpHjXob01XmiWWg5qMNJQ9QFayu9Iuca6q2N_pfGIEUuMRcAQO1-gEF7mcGm1uxJooKndDsEnaRlHnZeMcNEUa1ioUpCRuu1wGGku41Ak_KiQ4YRIytNtlP2nAB4EMGjGtFJjiVLYPI5B6a_K/s2396/Screenshot%202024-01-05%20at%208.10.49%E2%80%AFAM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1670" data-original-width="2396" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRUqmm2KRfJe0vt_h4a_d-soWS_KUgM_fawYDYiqcouv8dpHjXob01XmiWWg5qMNJQ9QFayu9Iuca6q2N_pfGIEUuMRcAQO1-gEF7mcGm1uxJooKndDsEnaRlHnZeMcNEUa1ioUpCRuu1wGGku41Ak_KiQ4YRIytNtlP2nAB4EMGjGtFJjiVLYPI5B6a_K/s320/Screenshot%202024-01-05%20at%208.10.49%E2%80%AFAM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You will of course recognize the above as the image on the home page of my main site. It was taken during the last passage of GANNET's circumnavigation. It is now fixed in time, as is the entire site. I thank Rich and Sheldon for enabling two final changes to be made. One to the note at the top of the Introduction page</span><p></p><p><a href="https://www.inthepresentsea.com/the_actual_site/introduction.html">introduction.html</a></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">One providing a new email address on the contact page.</span></p><p><a href="https://www.inthepresentsea.com/the_actual_site/contact.html">contact.html</a></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You may not recall that this was the original home page image.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9sFyR_mWYUtq1fwoqPY-cZdTBNaaZMDkT1fE0gHYlNl65kE3KRZkyvDvdjfeMHnqQ-EkLuLh9R7PLP4MtrTPM6uXlvpl2FY3dfYvTGTf0PABEhK6u3G4R13T_44iRFLUSIiGRiTz3-pD3vh2ufMa4tcKxeJkl3H5OXVUd_WtE31mEdnRUHGLzU5oNiQNJ/s2278/Screenshot%202024-01-05%20at%208.18.05%E2%80%AFAM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1700" data-original-width="2278" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9sFyR_mWYUtq1fwoqPY-cZdTBNaaZMDkT1fE0gHYlNl65kE3KRZkyvDvdjfeMHnqQ-EkLuLh9R7PLP4MtrTPM6uXlvpl2FY3dfYvTGTf0PABEhK6u3G4R13T_44iRFLUSIiGRiTz3-pD3vh2ufMa4tcKxeJkl3H5OXVUd_WtE31mEdnRUHGLzU5oNiQNJ/s320/Screenshot%202024-01-05%20at%208.18.05%E2%80%AFAM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">That is looking west from an anchorage just inside the pass into Bora-Bora. We were anchored in about 18' of water so clear the boat seemed to be floating in air.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">My sailing life has encompassed both.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.inthepresentsea.com/the_actual_site/webbchiles.html">The main site</a> was created in August 2006. Most of what my life has been or ever will be is there. The rest will be here and in YouTube.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">To Life.</span></p><p><br /></p>Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850431988375738943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396539239718442243.post-78530509955265073202024-01-03T10:38:00.008-05:002024-01-03T10:47:54.196-05:00Hilton Head Island: workouts, books read, and wrecks<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9oiNVtbvM2SV1A2r_zEDyOUf4EA6SiZ66RCCDKGhlpZi_BptGQWYCzZtnBLvks3tHBifLRfhrFbcZEeoTMJk42_wnQwqWQMN9JIbMTI4_LDQU9v2uSQ4CGxeAJmwD_ki9x5DifxtzW26kq5NcXqh0aF9ZFH0jrM7fUKeBzkCOcgquQOEJ-wUKKum2lxZT/s2732/IMG_2661.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2732" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9oiNVtbvM2SV1A2r_zEDyOUf4EA6SiZ66RCCDKGhlpZi_BptGQWYCzZtnBLvks3tHBifLRfhrFbcZEeoTMJk42_wnQwqWQMN9JIbMTI4_LDQU9v2uSQ4CGxeAJmwD_ki9x5DifxtzW26kq5NcXqh0aF9ZFH0jrM7fUKeBzkCOcgquQOEJ-wUKKum2lxZT/s320/IMG_2661.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I did my standard workout 118 times last year, which is the second highest number ever, exceeded only by 121 in 2021. Of those I went to the 100 level 11 times. I strive to do that once a month, but missed in April. At the 100 level I increase every part of the workout and end up doing 200 pushups and crunches in sets of 100, 50, 50, instead of at my current age 162 in sets of 82, 40, 40. I also increase knee bends and side leg raises.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I did my weight workout 52 times. I use only two ten pound weights but with 30 repetitions of most exercises in three sets of 10 each. I also do 100 crunches with both weights held on my upper chest. And two minutes of planks.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I only used the resistance bands 11 times. Shame on me.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The desired schedule is standard workout Monday-Wednesday-Friday. Weight workout Tuesday-Thursday. Resistance bands Saturday. I take Sundays off.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I lost some days to stitches following skin cancer removal and some to sailing and travel and most to lack of self-discipline.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Still I did workout almost half of the days last year.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Books read July-December</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;">MODERN TIMES </span><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">Paul Johnson</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>JACOB’S ROOM Virginia Woolf</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>UNDER WESTERN EYES Joseph Conrad</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I, JAMES McNEILL WHISTLER Lawrence Williams</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>WAR IN VAL D’ORICA Iris Origo</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>WARTIME WRITINGS Antoine de Saint-Exupery</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>THE SHADOW OF VESUVIUS Daisy Dunn</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF BRAS CUBAS Machado de Assis</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>THE SEASHELL ANTHOLOGY OF GREAT POETRY</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF CHINA Linda Jaivin</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>THE KILL Emile Zola</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>JOURNEY Smithsonian</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>HUMAN VOICES Penelope Fitzgerald</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>TO WAKE THE GIANT Jeff Sharra</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>LI PO AND TU FU: POEMS </p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>SHIP OF THE LINE C.S. Forester</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>CATHAY Ezra Pound</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>100 Selected Poems Robert Frost</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1939 Robert Kee</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>EARLY POEMS Ezra Pound</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>JAPANESE DEATH POEMS</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>WINTER’S TALE Mark Helprin</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>LENINGRAD: SIEGE AND SYMPHONY Brian Moynahan</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>THE POETRY OF ZEN</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1945 Robert Kee</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>SOLO FACES James Salter</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>BISMARCK’S WAR Rachel Charstil</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>SHIP OF THE LINE C.S. Forester</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>THE DEBACLE Emil Zola</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ZEN POETRY edited by Styrk and Ikemoto</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>THE KING MUST DIE Mary Renault</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>THE FORTUNE OF THE ROUGONS Emile Zola</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>RIVER-HORSE William Least Half-Moon</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>BEING ALIVE edited by Neil Astley </p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>RISE AND KILL FIRST Ronan Bergman</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Of these the ones I found most interesting are 1939 and 1945 by Robert Kee in which he presents those years before and after WW2 through what was printed in newspapers and said in speeches at the time; LENINGRAD: SIEGE AND SYMPHONY, about the almost three year siege of the city and Dmitri Shostakovich’s powerful Seventh Symphony written in part about it; WINTER’S TALE by Mark Helprin, a great work of the imagination I read for a second time; BISMARCK’S WAR, which was the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 which unified Germany and was a significant cause of WW1; and all three novels by Emile Zola, of which THE DEBACLE, sometimes translated as THE DOWNFALL, is also about the war of 1870-71 and one of his greatest.</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">All three Zola novels are part of his epic twenty novel Rougon-Macquart Cycle set during the reign of Napoleon III. I have read seven of them, some more than once, and, assuming I have time, intend to read one a month until I have read them all.</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Some decades ago an editor asked who my favorite novelists are and I replied without needing much thought: Hardy, Conrad and Zola. They still are.</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I found myself looking at iSailor last evening and my singular eye gravitated to the area around Cape Horn shown on the above screen shot. I was struck as I expect you will be by the number of indicated wrecks. Zooming in reveals there are even more than shown in that shot, but I think this is the best over all view. Note that almost all are in the channels or on the west coast which is perhaps the world’s most dangerous lee shore. The first man to make it past Cape Horn alone, the Norwegian, Al Hansen, who sailed east to west, died when his boat was driven onto the Chilean coast.</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Two more observations about that chart. You can see that it is possible to stay in the channels, wait for a decent day, duck out, round Horn Island, and then duck back in. Some do this and call themselves Cape Horners. They are not by my standards and probably would say they don’t give a damn, but inside they know they have faked it. Rounding the Horn has traditionally meant going from 50 ºS in one ocean to 50 ºS in the other and still does to the honorable.</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The second observation is that I measured the distance from the main Diego Ramirez Island to Horn Island. On my first passage around Cape Horn I saw the Diego Ramirez but not Horn Island. I was blown well south of Horn Island by a Force 12 storm. I had thought the Diego Ramirez about thirty miles from Horn Island, but they measure 58 miles WSW. </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p>Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850431988375738943noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396539239718442243.post-85143827153783989682024-01-01T17:28:00.008-05:002024-01-01T18:37:39.451-05:00Hilton Head Island: from the porch<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaArf-QFzPyS4A5lvbIkbmZcSGy77dJ7JAmVoMO1sOLww8aer2iNhyzmZ7OkGsdMLJzddZk6iYbGa008slQU-f9tGX96c_bsNJZI-NXkv-xeRTiJEmmeFCeMXkLqVbvb7X2b1jNBeQ8mymOkzITjJRlv764YsXJOu8RZrVgMm_vVBzo6pX6WkTOXyEgVdT/s4032/IMG_1664.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaArf-QFzPyS4A5lvbIkbmZcSGy77dJ7JAmVoMO1sOLww8aer2iNhyzmZ7OkGsdMLJzddZk6iYbGa008slQU-f9tGX96c_bsNJZI-NXkv-xeRTiJEmmeFCeMXkLqVbvb7X2b1jNBeQ8mymOkzITjJRlv764YsXJOu8RZrVgMm_vVBzo6pX6WkTOXyEgVdT/s320/IMG_1664.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A slightly early martini being sipped on the porch as the sun is about to set behind Pickney Island. 60F/15.5C. I drink martinis on the rocks and with my compromised depth perception avoid stemmed glasses which I too easily knock over. A fine way to start the new year. Wishing you a splendid one.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">L’Chaim.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p>Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850431988375738943noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396539239718442243.post-13571606044060944942023-12-31T09:21:00.008-05:002024-01-02T10:40:28.463-05:00Hilton Head Island: the last lighthouse keeper; a very small boat<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6xIGMWXFjcwUFb7XwulRh9ogIiiTnXz1g5dO-U6sLuNowcidbWaO_GkN4iknfBHIDbFo32HdJbErkmX7BKTjg8gDD2ZYerEFI017wcizPGf5WPqjmxyelp7qNdud30oBVclKFHQ3li81AV2EHqzdvS2Qj4lOxFuB8J0XPTTzt9ywG81k837nV9rXV6NqK/s400/magcov.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="298" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6xIGMWXFjcwUFb7XwulRh9ogIiiTnXz1g5dO-U6sLuNowcidbWaO_GkN4iknfBHIDbFo32HdJbErkmX7BKTjg8gDD2ZYerEFI017wcizPGf5WPqjmxyelp7qNdud30oBVclKFHQ3li81AV2EHqzdvS2Qj4lOxFuB8J0XPTTzt9ywG81k837nV9rXV6NqK/s320/magcov.jpeg" width="238" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The United States last lighthouse keeper retires today. She is 72 year old Sally Snowman who has been the keeper of Boston Light, the U.S.’s oldest lighthouse, shown above. Mrs. Snowman has had an almost life long affinity for the lighthouse and was even married there.</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I had read of her retirement in brief articles and thank Larry who sent me a link to this most informative piece from THE DAILY MAIL. I found it interesting and perhaps you will too.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12806873/Lighthouse-keeper-Sally-Snowman-Boston-Light.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12806873/Lighthouse-keeper-Sally-Snowman-Boston-Light.html</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Carol and I lived in Boston for several years and we often sailed past Boston Light as we are in my only magazine cover. There is a story behind that photo. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Carol and I met and were married in 1994. Two years later we formulated what was my second five year plan, this one to go sailing on what was intended to be an open ended voyage. We completed that plan early in 2001 and were preparing to depart around June 1. Carol resigned her position as the joint number two in a firm of more than fifty architects, behind only the two founding partners. We had savings, but the income from my writing was going to be important.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">When I completed my first circumnavigation in October of 1976 I had about $2000 left. I just checked an inflation calculator and that would be about $10,600 now. So I had some time before starvation and I had completed the book that would become STORM PASSAGE and sent the manuscript to my literary agent in New York. I also put EGREGIOUS up for sale. Both book and boat sold at about the same time which pushed starvation beyond the horizon.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I turned two episodes from STORM PASSAGE into magazine articles. One about the day of the rounding of Cape Horn I sent to YACHTING. Another about the capsize in cyclone Colin in the Tasman I sent to SAIL. Both magazines bought the articles, but Patience Wales, the editor of SAIL, included a request that I call her. I did and so ended up publishing in the United States primarily in SAIL for the next twenty-five years. However in 2001 when I wanted an agreement from a magazine to buy four articles a year at an agreed upon price, Patience Wales was retiring and her replacement had not been appointed, so no one at SAIL could make that commitment. I contacted the then editor of CRUISING WORLD, for which I had occasionally written, and when he learned that I was soon to be off sailing the world again, he immediately agreed.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">He sent a professional photographer to Boston to get some shots that the magazine would eventually use. The above is one of them, but not their first choice.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Carol and I sailed as planned around June 1–I don’t remember the exact date. Our first stop was in the Azores, then on to Lisbon. I wrote an article about that first passage and it was published in the above issue. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I don’t know that you will be able to read the date on the cover but it was November 2001 and would have been released a month earlier, and I know you will remember what happened in September 2001.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The photo that had been intended to be on the cover of the November issue showed THE HAWKE OF TUONELA sailing in front of the towers of downtown Boston. After 9-11 the editors felt it was insensitive to show a skyline, so we have THE HAWKE OF TUONELA off Boston Light.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">There are small boats and there are small boats. Most people think GANNET is small and they are right. Almost all would think CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE or Steve Earley’s SPARTINA small and they too are right. But Matt’s John Welsford designed Scamp is decidedly smaller. Less than 12’ overall. The New Zealander, John Welsford, who designed the Scamp also designed Steve Earley’s Pathfinder, SPARTINA.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Matt lives in Tasmania. We have communicated by email for a few years and he sent me a link to a video he made of his circumnavigating Bruny Island. I enjoyed it and am impressed by some of the speeds he and the tiny boat achieved in part current aided, but still faster than I would have expected. Well done, Matt, both the sail and the video.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Here’s the link for your possible new year’s enjoyment. A lovely part of the world. I have passed and seen Tasmania north and south but never stopped.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/hhpa6kqhCfY">https://youtu.be/hhpa6kqhCfY</a></p></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div>Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16850431988375738943noreply@blogger.com1