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I like so much some of those pictures on the Sunset/Sunrise picture thread that I think it is a pity that I cannot see other great pictures that are not related with sunset or sunrise and I know you guys have them.
I want to see those beautiful pictures so I am open this thread for it.
Some rules : Utilize a site like photobucket, imageShack, Photoshelter or similar site to host the photos before post here, don't post bigger than 800/600, preferably that size (15" screen) and post only one photo each time. you can post more after others have posted.
Of course, these are only suggestions, do what you like if you do not agree, except in what regards Max size. Bigger will make difficult to see them on laptops.
Well, first one:
2006, Esteiro, Rias Galegas, Galiza, North of Spain.
In the early afternoon of 02 February 2012 we rounded Cape Horn east to west, and at 1300 we turned and rounded it west to east. My wife Edi shot this as we were due south of the Horn for our second time.
This wasn't as special a moment as it could have been.. we shared an anchorage in Jervis Inlet with Serrafyn, the Pardey's famous engineless 30 footer - but did not chance to meet them. We did meet and chat briefly with Lin weeks later at a local wooden boat show.
The next morning we watched them patiently drift/sail out of the harbour out into Malaspina Strait.. took quite a while.
Actually I believe that is their second boat, "Taliesin". Might that have been about 7 years ago? I encountered them around that time drifting/sailing in the same area while on my friend's 76ft mega-yacht. At the time I was a 100% Pardey deciple and wanted to yell to them that I have all their books and that they are my heroes. Of course yelling that, to the Pardeys, who are drifting on their engineless cutter, from the deck of a 76ft boat going 17kts burning 3gal/mile of diesel, and nearly swamping them with our wake...... well..... I instead chose not to make myself seen.
Something different, last week, Gondolas in Venice at rush hour. I can tell you, I was really impressed with the way those guys manage to steer those beautiful boats with only one oar in the middle of those frightening steel barges.
Faster- do you happen to know if they "drifted" their way up to P. Louisa? Just wondering how, or if, they negotiate rapids/slack engineless. I would think that many of the best places to see in our neck of the woods would be extremely difficult, or darn near impossible, without our iron gennies.
Under-estimating the amount of work on the spring punch list so that a month and a half after launch, you're still on the dock paying transient rates, while simultaneously working through your two week vacation, missing your chance to sail to Nantucket, and having to eat the deposit on your mooring reservation!
Ahhhh - good times, good times...
:^)
Saint Malo was the Corsair city of France and Le Renard is a faithfull replica of the last corsair boat armed by the famous Robert Surcouf (1812).
In 1812, Surcouf launched his last ship, the Renard ("Fox"). She was a single-mast, 70-ton cutter, with 10 carronades and 4 long guns, crewed by 46 men. On 9 September beginning at five o'clock and lasting through the night, Renard successfully engaged the British 16-gun Alphea, crewed by over 80 elite sailors. Combat was intense and bloody until at three o'clock in the morning, when the Alphea took two direct hits from Renard to (presumably) the powder magazine and exploded. There were no reported survivors; Surcouf returned to France with only 13 able-bodied men.
How could this be a perfect moment? Just look at the boat. It's been dismasted!
MedSailor
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