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“An innovative fusion of a bicycle and kayak to create a vehicle capable of tackling both the road and the river.”
This sweet ride did not win the Google/Specialized Innovate or Die contest, but it should have!
Regular NSL readers will notice a few recent changes to the site. We now feature a three column format, and I am experimenting with putting up advertising, partly to offset the cost to host the site, but mainly to extend my blogging skills. Hopefully the ads will not be too irritating, and will be for items of interest to readers, like sailing hardware and clothing, bareboat charter companies, and mermaid tail lotion.
And it’s not even Friday. Link.
The Gallery of Mermaid Tattoos is one of the most popular pages here at Never Sea Land. I have added 41 images for inspiration and enjoyment.
When you spend your life in the water, I guess you tend to develop a good intuition for its subtleties. Dolphins have been observed to create bubble rings by exhaling air carefully in the middle of the vortices caused by the motion of their fins through the water, among other techniques. Besides being nice to look at (and a neat demonstration of fluid mechanics), this phenomenon also might throw some light on dolphin cognition, since the skill to create the rings is a bit subtle and tends to be taught from one dolphin to the next via careful observation and practice. I’m also intrigued by the report that they seem to be using sonar to locate the vortex in the water, since that would be a fairly amazing bit of audio analysis.
See more here.
From the Aussie-produced TV-movie Mermaids (2003) (IMDb, wiki, fansite with stills). Find-able on the Interweb.
Diana, a stubborn mermaid, is determined to bring justice to the men who killed her merman father. Never having lived out of water before, she enlists the help of her two sisters (already living on land) to track down the murderers. Diana finds that her sister, Venus, is an aquatic dancer in a seedy bar who was forced into the position by the evil bar owner who has taken Venus’ magic tiara, giving him ultimate control of her. June, the third sister, works at the local aquarium and is able to recruit the help of her friend, and love interest, Randy, a coast guard officer, to help the mermaids track down their father’s killers. The sisters join forces and along the way, discover how difficult it is to be a fish out of water, and how meaningful sisterhood is.
Now we just need the address of that “seedy bar”…
NSL kicks “Fish on Fridays” up a notch with a gallery of over 200 anglers. Most pics clickable for larger size.
Got a nice letter from Maine Boats, Homes, and Harbors magazine pointing out some of their own mermaid contributions:
Dear David,
Someone sent me a link to your Mermaids. Fantastic. We have been publishing a series of old advertisements on our website and some of our favorites are from a series of ads for Woolsey Marine Finishes featuring Minnie the Mermaid. I posted the most recent of the series on the homepage today (Thursday, Jan 17th).
http://www.maineboats.com/
Retro Ads are lower right.There are other Woolsey ads in the galleries listed below
http://www.maineboats.com/online/boat-features/retro-001
http://www.maineboats.com/online/boat-features/retro-002
http://www.maineboats.com/online/boat-features/retro-004We’d love to have Minnie featured on your blog and a link to our site would be great. Let us know if she makes the cut.
Thanks.
Best regards,
Jamie Bloomquist
The magazine’s website has online feature articles (e.g. this piece on the new 50′ daysailor Ginger from Brooklin Boat Yard), and a comprehensive directory of tradition-minded boatbuilders (generously including non-Maine builders like Norseboat and Chesapeake Light Craft). Have a look!
“Desperately Looking for Something Original”, acrylic and oil on canvas, by Rafal Olbinski
FYI, last Saturday 12 Jan 08 the 10,000th post went up on the “Couple Cruise for 1000 Days, This is Totally F*cking Ridiculous” thread on Sailing Anarchy (LINK). While a great many of the posts actually have little or nothing to do with Reed and Sonaya’s quixotic voyage, it is safe to say that never has so much has been spewed on so few about so little. I have to say, even though Reed comes off like a flake and even a jerk (and has inspired some pretty funny parody), most of this reaction must just be sour grapes from all the middle-aged desk-bound wannabees out there. Who wouldn’t want to be on an extended schooner voyage with a woman 20 years his junior? I am guessing that Reed will have the last laugh, and Tillerman agrees.
“Composition – women in front of the sea” by Paul Delvaux. Char says “Put some shirts on, ladies.”
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