NSL friend (and editor at Yacht Pals) Fred Eagle writes via Facebook
Hey David….Have you seen her? I snapped this pic for you at the Hotel Del Rio in Isleton. An awesome mermaid painted on glass behind the bar. The bar is curved and so is the glass…cool funky joint. Been the same since 1949. I didn’t have any gear with me so I will go back and get you better pics. ’til then…enjoy mate!
Thanks! We are prepping for a cruise up to the North Bay and as far into the Delta as we can manage, we’ll see if time and water depth hold out that far…
New Medusirena Marina t-shirt, now available at Zazzle.
NSL friend and French Norseboat enthusiast/dealer writes…
Hello David !
News feed for your NeverSeaLand website !
8 Norseboats sailing together ! …
2 new videos of Norseboats taken during the “Semaine du Golfe du Morbihan” event in France end of may 2009 [see below].
More videos at:
http://www.norseboat.fr/norseboat_galerie_videos.htmlAnd news and pictures about the Semaine du Golf and the _ norseboats participatig at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/NicoNorseboat/SemaineDuGolfe#
and at: www.norseboat.frAll the Best
Cheers,
Nicolas
Semaine du Golfe du Morbihan - Samedi 23 Mai 2009
Semaine du Golfe du Morbihan - Ascension 2009
Thanks, Nicolas, those look awesome! And I see Kevin made it across the ocean to enjoy the incredible sailing with you.
Medusirena Marina performing her bed-of-nails and fire-eating act last week at Hukilau 2009, to the throbbing jungle drums and wailing guitars of Los Straightjackets. Your Correspondent can be clearly seen as the white blob in a hat on the other side of the pool at the 3:20 point.
In the early morning hours of Sunday May 24th 2009 Philip Cunningham Bolger of 66 Atlantic Street, Gloucester, Massachusetts took his own life, out of his own free will, shooting himself in the head with his Colt 45. I awoke later to his absence and found his body on our property out of public sight. The matter is under routine investigate by the Massachusetts State Police and Gloucester Police Department.
He had observed the progression of declining mental faculties in earlier generations of his family.
[…]
Phil’s personal life and body of work were an expression of firmly defined and ever broadened independence from deeply-entrenched conventions, intangible superstitions, and other known limitations on the free use of mind and thus sound judgment. He lived that way and decided to leave us that way.
Link to full report
Biography on Wikipedia
Obituary in the New York Times
German metal pirates take over schooner, abduct female passenger, proclaim their prize to be Das Partei Boot. Yo ho!
Like Live Aid, but for salmon. Looks like a fun event for a very worthy cause. Who doesn’t like salmon?
I’m afraid Temerity’s bottom might be looking like this - we haven’t had her dived in several months. Get the full skinny at the SF Sailing Examiner.
Goth mermaid avatar art by NSL reader Pebble Garden.
Great footage of traditonal boats in the UK, courtesy of NSL reader and UK circumnavigator Dylan Winter of Keep Turning Left.
Marvelous mermaid tattoo applied just two days ago on NSL sweetheart Peggy. After artwork found on a kayak here.
Cricket, owner of Otter Bay wetsuits, makes fantastic and functional mermaid suits for sport divers.
We at Otterbay – a nickname for our beautiful Monterey Bay in California, USA - are proud to be the pioneer of a wonderful new version of sport diving. We call it Mermaid Diving.
It is a beautiful new kind of diving, where the diver wears a sleek, sexy mermaid-type wetsuit and a special mono-fin. It can be done with or without SCUBA equipment.
We quietly developed this equipment over the last few years. Hundreds of mermaid dives have been done by the first ladies using this equipment. As we found a surprising interest in mermaid diving among scuba diving women - “where can I buy such a suit?” - we decided to make this equipment available to a wider audience of experienced divers.
We encourage you to take a closer look at this new equipment, read the stories, enjoy the photos and contemplate whether this is something you may want to try out yourself.
You will find that diving as a mermaid is not scary – rather it is a delight. This equipment will transform you into a streamlined creature of the sea, the star of the show, fast as a dophin (well, not quite,but you get the idea) However, do not do it if you cannot stand in the limelight of all these underwater cameras you’ll face as a mermaid.
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