Contributions of the group Sailboats and sailing

Seabreeze at Cid Harbour

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 04:22:51 +0000

Sailing Holiday in the Whitsundays. We chartered a Lagoon 380 Catamaran 'Seabreeze' from Sunsail's base at Hamilton Island Marina.

6 of us on board, luxury camping.

The Whitsundays are 74 beautiful tropical islands on the coast of Queensland, Australia. The largest group of islands in Australia, the Whitsundays are largely undeveloped with only 8 inhabited islands and 32 forming the Whitsunday Islands National Park.

at Hamilton Island Marina

Sunsail Seabreeze at Hamilton Island Marina

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:02:43 +0000

Gillian Everett has posted:

Sailing Holiday in the Whitsundays. We chartered a Lagoon 380 Catamaran 'Seabreeze' from Sunsail's base at Hamilton Island Marina. Ian on board.

6 of us on board, luxury camping

1991 "Elissa" Cole 19 in Canberra

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 22:51:47 +0000

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After learning to sail in a dinghy, and Hobie cat, we had sailing holidays in England and the Mediterranean, and it wasn't until we had moved to Australia that we had another boat in 1991,
"Elissa", a fixed keel, Cole 19, sailing and racing with the Canberra Yacht Club, in Australia.

Peter Cole is a well-known Australian boat designer and sailmaker.

Jen on 'Notos' in Kos, Greece

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 23:42:29 +0000

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The start of our charter of an Oceanis 350 Yacht from Sunsail at their base in Kos. The fleet of yachts, Oceanis 350 and Oceanis 390, had a Lead Skipper, an Engineer and Hostess.

Sailing with Jen and Pete in the Islands of the Dodecanese, Greece. This was on an Oceanis 350 'Notos' with Sunsail, out of Kos in September 1994.

Port Augusta, Arki, Dodecanese, Oceanis 350 'Notos'

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 23:42:36 +0000

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A delightful, sheltered harbour.

'Arki (Αρκοί) is a small Greek island in the Dodecanese, situated three miles north of Lipsi and eight miles ENE of Patmos. The island has about 47 inhabitants, all in one hamlet in a deep inlet on the SW coast, where there is a small and rather shallow harbour, Port Augusta. It is not a very mountainous island, but very rocky and most of the inhabitants raise animals: sheep, goats, cows, and a few horses.'
Source
www.cruiserswiki.org/wiki/Arki_and_Marathi

Sailing with Jen and Pete in the Islands of the Dodecanese, Greece. This was on an Oceanis 350 'Notos' with Sunsail, out of Kos in September 1994.

2022 Blue rope - jib sheets

Sailing adventures

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 01:08:13 +0000

Gillian Everett has posted:

We learned to sail in a 12 foot dinghy, racing on inland lakes around Johannesburg 1976-1979, then on a 14 foot Hobie catamaran, racing in Hout Bay, near Cape Town 1981-1982.

After our return to England, we completed a Yacht Cruising Association course, in 1984, on the Solent in Hampshire, on a YCA 29 yacht, prior to our
sailing holidays in England, and the Mediterranean from 1984-1987.

The photo here is part of the Royal Yacht Association log books which we had for completing a Day Skipper Course and Coastal Skipper course, in 1986/7, to improve our sailing and navigational skills. The left log book shows my Coastal Skipper certificate. Having these certificates and log books made it easier to charter yachts in England and the Mediterranean.

The right one is part of Ian's log of actual voyages, with yacht names, dates, days on board, etc. Mine is similar, although Ian had one extra trip when he sailed around the Cape of Good Hope in a Sadler 32.
See my log book detailed entries, in my photostream.

Before Examination for the RYA/DoT Coastal Skipper certificate the following sailing experience is required:
20 days living on board
400 miles logged at sea
12 hours night sailing

When we moved to Australia we had sailing holidays in the Whitsundays, and other places, mostly chartering yachts. Then we had our own boats from 1991 to 2001.
See album "Our Boats"

In 2002 we moved to Noosa, which has a shallow river unsuitable for deep keel boats, so we chartered a few times, and did various day sails.

Sailing is such a joyful experience, using the power of the wind, and enjoying the freedom of being out on the water. It does require a level of agility and fitness.
Nowadays we are trying out large cruise ships, the last one being the Cunard Queen Elizabeth, a short trip from Melbourne to Brisbane, via Sydney.

RYA log book & certificates

nobody@ipernity.com (Gillian Everett) — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 01:03:25 +0000

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h10 - The Landing

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 04:23:16 +0000

Götz Kluge has posted:

10000 x 14598

Very large version of www.ipernity.com/doc/goetzkluge/19289465

South Mahe

nobody@ipernity.com (pisi) — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 18:25:15 +0000

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Beagle Laid Ashore & Snarked

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Thu, 25 Dec 2014 00:32:02 +0000

Götz Kluge has posted:

I posted this as a 4758 x 3102 image earlier, but this one is much bigger: 8000x5200. It is an enlargement of the vectorized version of the earlier image.

This ship played an important role in the history of science. Its probably most well known passanger was Charles Darwin. However, the Bellman carrying the Banker from Lewis Carroll's and Henry Holiday's "Hunting of the Snark" sneaked into the image.

The print is based on a drawing by Conrad Martens, etching published in: Francis Darwin, Life and Letters of Charles Darwin , p. 160, 1888. Conrad Martens' drawing has been engraved by Thomas Landseer and published in the year 1838 by H. Colburn in The Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of HMS Adventure and Beagle.

Date: 1834-04-16
Location: Tierra del Fuego, Santa Cruz river, 50.1125°S and 68.3917°W
maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=5...
That is the position calculated by Captain Robert FitzRoy (who had no GPS). The error was small. The drawing shows that the site must have been a river bank (50.13°S, 68.39°W?) near the calculated position.

See also:
darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F10.2&vi...
thebeagleproject.blogspot.com/2009/04/keel-overhauled-175...
beagleproject.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/two-feet-from-sink...

commons.wikimedia.org: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TheBeagleLaidAshore.png

HMS Beagle

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 06:26:07 +0000

Götz Kluge has posted:

Vectorized engraving A Phosphorescent Sea HMS Beagle from What Mr. Darwin saw in his voyage round the world in the ship "Beagle" (New York, Harper, 1898, c1879)

Napoleon on board the HMS Bellerophon to St. Helena

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 05:52:11 +0000

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Napoleon in bad mood on his way to St. Helena on board the HMS Bellerophon.

(Vectorized copy from a 19th century print)

Ceci n'est pas une cloche

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Sun, 22 Jun 2014 10:16:01 +0000

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These are only lines, no bell.

Segment from illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876).

In Lewis Carroll's, Henry Holiday's (and Joseph Swain's) illustrations to The Hunting of the Snark, there is a bell in all but two illustrations. You find it even on the front cover and the back cover. The left side of an illustration without a clearly recognizable bell is shown above. It has been drawn by Holiday and cut into a woodblock by Swain. Where is the bell (if there is any)?

(The Bellman's map is the second exception. There is no bell either. But that illustration hasn't necessarily been made by Henry Holiday. And neither did Joseph Swain sign that map. A typographer could have made it.)

Ditchley Snark

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 19:14:56 +0000

Götz Kluge has posted:

The image shows Henry Holiday's illustration (1876) to the front cover of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark compared to a grey shaded reproduction of the Ditchley Portrait (a gift from Sir Henry Lee to Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1592) by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger.

"While I concede Tufail 's thesis (2003) that Holiday received his instructions from Carroll and created his illustrations to reflect Carroll's cryptic messages and allusions, I contend that the interpretations given to the words we know so well by so many illustrators over a period in excess of 130 years continue to keep the Snark alive. Furthermore, it is my personal belief that Holiday managed to slip in a few interpretations of his own even though Carroll approved of the end result."
(Doug Howick: The Hiihijig of the Bijtcheb, Knight Letter #28, Summer 2009)

Perhaps Tufail and Howick both are right. There is more:

"The 'clouds' - or what at first glance appear to be clouds, are another item of considerable interest. If these are indeed supposed to represent clouds, then they are remarkably poor renditions (and Holiday was by no means either a poor, nor slipshod artist). Rather any close examination of this aspect of the illustration leads the observer to think that this background to the Bellman is actually a map, complete with rivers. contrast to the map Bellman presents to his admiring crew."
(John Tufail, The Illuminated Snark, 2004)

As Henry Holiday in his Snark illustrations frequently alluded to works of father&son Gheeraerts, John Tufail's Illuminated Snark gave me the idea to search for a Gheeraerts painting in which a map is shown. John reckoned, that the clouds in Holiday's front cover illustration may be part of a map. I think that this possibility cannot be excluded. John's assumption then drew my attention to the Ditchley portrait. (The Ditchley portrait again helped me to find sources for Holiday's illustration to the back cover of Carroll's book as well.)

2013-12: Evidence supporting of John Tufail's thesis: www.doylenewyork.com/asp/fullcatalogue.asp?salelot=13BP04+++553+&refno=++953647&image=0 (see also: groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/carrolliana/conversations/topics/358)

h12

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 11:58:29 +0000

Götz Kluge has posted:

Illustration by Henry Holiday (cut by Joseph Swain) to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, 1876.

Why should a peaceful activity like lace-making (see below or lines #277 to #280 of the Snark) have "proved an infringement of right"? This image may have been used to symbolize dissection in context with C. L. Dodgson's (aka Lewis Carroll's) involvement in the vivisection debate.

053· · The last of the crew needs especial remark,
054· · · · Though he looked an incredible dunce:
055· · He had just one idea--but, that one being "Snark,"
056· · · · The good Bellman engaged him at once.

057· · He came as a Butcher: but gravely declared,
058· · · · When the ship had been sailing a week,
059· · He could only kill Beavers. The Bellman looked scared,
060· · · · And was almost too frightened to speak:

061· · But at length he explained, in a tremulous tone,
062· · · · There was only one Beaver on board;
063· · And that was a tame one he had of his own,
064· · · · Whose death would be deeply deplored.

065· · The Beaver, who happened to hear the remark,
066· · · · Protested, with tears in its eyes,
067· · That not even the rapture of hunting the Snark
068· · · · Could atone for that dismal surprise!

069· · It strongly advised that the Butcher should be
070· · · · Conveyed in a separate ship:
071· · But the Bellman declared that would never agree
072· · · · With the plans he had made for the trip:

073· · Navigation was always a difficult art,
074· · · · Though with only one ship and one bell:
075· · And he feared he must really decline, for his part,
076· · · · Undertaking another as well.

077· · The Beaver's best course was, no doubt, to procure
078· · · · A second-hand dagger-proof coat--
079· · So the Baker advised it-- and next, to insure
080· · · · Its life in some Office of note:

081· · This the Banker suggested, and offered for hire
082· · · · (On moderate terms), or for sale,
083· · Two excellent Policies, one Against Fire,
084· · · · And one Against Damage From Hail.

085· · Yet still, ever after that sorrowful day,
086· · · · Whenever the Butcher was by,
087· · The Beaver kept looking the opposite way,
088· · · · And appeared unaccountably shy.

And if that was not enough:

273 · · The Boots and the Broker were sharpening a spade--
274 · · · · Each working the grindstone in turn:
275 · · But the Beaver went on making lace, and displayed
276 · · · · No interest in the concern:

277 · · Though the Barrister tried to appeal to its pride,
278 · · · · And vainly proceeded to cite
279 · · A number of cases, in which making laces
280 · · · · Had been proved an infringement of right.

421 · · But the Barrister, weary of proving in vain
422 · · · · That the Beaver's lace-making was wrong,
423 · · Fell asleep, and in dreams saw the creature quite plain
424 · · · · That his fancy had dwelt on so long.
(from Lewis Carroll's and Henry Holiday's The Hunting of the Snark, 1876)

Links:
o Charles Darwin: www.ipernity.com/doc/goetzkluge/album/370833
o Eva Amsen, Alice's Adventures in Animal Experimentation, 2007-09-19, easternblot.net/2007/09/19/alices_adventures_in_animal_experimentation
o Lewis Carroll, Some Popular Fallacies About Vivisection, Fortnightly Review [London: 1865-1934] 23 (1875 Jun): 847-854; Online at Animal Rights History, 2003.
www.animalrightshistory.org/animal-rights-quotes/literatu...
o On the usage of lace-needles with microscopes see pg. 391 in Darwin, C. R. 1849, On the use of the microscope on board ship, in Owen, R., Zoology. In Herschel, J. F. W. ed., A manual of scientific enquiry; prepared for the use of Her Majesty's Navy, and adapted for travellers in general. London: John Murray, pp. 389-395.
"Circular discs of fine-textured cork, of the size of the saucers (with one or two circular springs of steel-wire to keep the cork at the bottom of the water), serve for fixing objects to be dissected by direct instead of transmitted light. For this end short fine pins and lace-needles should be procured; wherever it is possible, the animal ought to be fixed to the cork under water."
darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=side&i...
o Jed Mayer: The vivisection of the Snark, 2009-06-22: Victorian Poetry (Amazon etext in HTML)
www.amazon.com/vivisection-Snark-fictional-animal-Report/...
o Rod Preece: Darwinism, Christianity, and the Great Vivisection Debate , Journal of the History of Ideas - Volume 64, Number 3, July 2003, pp. 399-419
www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3654233
o Letters on vivisection from/to Charles Darwin: www.darwinproject.ac.uk/advanced-search?as-corresp=&as-person=&as-place=&ask-content=vivisection&asv-content=as-body&as-year-from=&as-year-to=&as-set=&as-physdesc=&as-volume=&as-repository=&as-calnum=&as-n=&intercept=adv&asp-page=0&as-type=letter&asdesc=#type=letters&secondKeyword=vivisection&sort=date&itemsPerPage=25¤tPage=1&filterOperand=AND
o People related to vivisection and Charles Darwin: www.darwinproject.ac.uk/advanced-search?as-corresp=&as-person=&as-place=&ask-content=vivisection&asv-content=as-body&as-year-from=&as-year-to=&as-set=&as-physdesc=&as-volume=&as-repository=&as-calnum=&as-n=&intercept=adv&asp-page=0&as-type=letter&asdesc=#type=people&keyword=vivisection&sort=title&itemsPerPage=25¤tPage=1&filterOperand=AND

Crossing the Line

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:06:48 +0000

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"A sailing ship: the brig H. M. S. Beagle. It is commanded by the bigoted Captain Robert Fitz Roy. The year is 1831. On board, a brain explosion. With a delay of about two centuries of Physics, it is shattered by the the Galileo of Biology. The following stages: In 1838 the theory of natural selection was completed. In 1859 comes the Origin of Species.
· · Fade-over.
· · When it returns into the scene, it is still a ship. A sailing ship, of course. The Beagle took to the sea again? The year is 1874: Darwin is still alive, well and chatty." (Adriano Orefice)

Images:
[left]: Illustration "He had wholly forgotten his name" by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876)
[right]: "Crossing the Line" (1839), redrawn (2013) based on a print by Thomas Landseer, after Augustus Earle. The print you will find in Robert Fitz-Roy's Narrative of the surveying voyages of HMS Adventure and Beagle, Vol II (1839).

This comparison is related to my assumption that Lewis Carroll's and Henry Holiday's The Hunting of the Snark at least partially has been inspired by Charles Darwin's explorational Beagle voyage.

Beagle Laid Ashore

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Wed, 22 May 2013 23:53:05 +0000

Götz Kluge has posted:

This ship played an important role in the history of science.

Print based on a drawing by Conrad Martens, etching published in: Francis Darwin, Life and Letters of Charles Darwin , p. 160, 1888. Conrad Martens' drawing has been engraved by Thomas Landseer and published in the year 1838 by H. Colburn in The Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of HMS Adventure and Beagle.

Date: 1834-04-16
Location: Tierra del Fuego, Santa Cruz river, 50.1125°S and 68.3917°W
maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=5...
That is the position calculated by Captain Robert FitzRoy (who had no GPS). The error was small. The drawing shows that the site must have been a river bank (50.13°S, 68.39°W?) near the calculated position.

See also:
darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F10.2&vi...
thebeagleproject.blogspot.com/2009/04/keel-overhauled-175...
beagleproject.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/two-feet-from-sink...

Vector graphics (slightly snarked version):
www.ipernity.com/doc/goetzkluge/19726411

commons.wikimedia.org: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TheBeagleLaidAshore.png

Tall Ships off Skye -aerial

nobody@ipernity.com (Coldwaterjohn) — Sun, 26 May 2013 18:43:49 +0000

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Images taken from the air of some of the participants in the Tall Ships Race from Liverpool to Scandinavia.

Tall Ships off Skye -aerial

nobody@ipernity.com (Coldwaterjohn) — Sun, 26 May 2013 18:43:37 +0000

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Images taken from the air of some of the participants in the Tall Ships Race from Liverpool to Scandinavia.

Tall Ships off Skye -aerial

nobody@ipernity.com (Coldwaterjohn) — Sun, 26 May 2013 18:43:43 +0000

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Images taken from the air of some of the participants in the Tall Ships Race from Liverpool to Scandinavia.