Following in the footsteps of William Bligh when cast adrift from the Bounty, Don McIntyre and the crew onboard the “Bounty Boat” will sail for Tonga to find extra food and water, then set off to sail across the top of the Fiji and the Vanuatu Island groups, before setting course for the Queensland Coast and a landing at Restoration Island following four weeks at sea on light rations. They then sail north inside the Great Barrier Reef to Thursday Island, and across to Kupang and Timor.
If successful it will be the first time that anyone has ever sailed the same course, in the same way that William Bligh did 221 years before. (1983 and 1990 attempts both used almanacs and charts for navigation, torches, modern time pieces etc, and also made unscheduled stopovers or did not follow the same route or were escorted part of the way). We’ll have no charts, no nautical almanacs, no modern watches, no torches, no toilet paper, no extra landings, all in a boat less than half the size of Bligh’s original “Bounty Boat”…. But let’s get to the finish line and then talk about it.
Could be good, could be bad, Hollywood’s inability this century to come up with anything new; relying instead on making 8-figure-budget movies based on comic book characters, old TV sitcoms, and of course remakes, err, reimagings of old movies. There is a new version of Moby Dick in the works, to be directed by Russian action film maker Timur Bekmambeto, of Wantedfame.
The rumored story line tinkerings are already making me uneasy, but one good piece of news is that six traditional whaleboats have been built over the past summer by our old friends at Norseboat, Ltd (pic above). They look great, and I hope the CGI whale doesn’t destroy them all so that some will find a good home after filming is completed.
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.
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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.
First historical episode of the Adventures of Paradise series, broadcasted on ABC TV on 5th October 1959. Starring Gardner McKay, as Adam Troy, captain of the schooner Tiki. Swilling down rum while watching the box set souns like a great idea — searching eBay now!
Sailboat left in water over the winter. Unknown if there is any damage to the boat. Boat WAS 10,000us 3 years ago. This WAS a nice boat but can probably be fixed up by someone who wants a project. It is a 1976 P26 Paceship, 26 feet long. The sails are in good condition. They are stored separately along with the mast. The mast needs work on the bottom as there was some corrosion there. It had an inboard motor, but I’m guessing that isn’t working anymore due to the present location.
Simon in Singapore sent in this sweet shot of his O-34 Sapphire
Hope you are well. Attached is the best spinnaker shot we have of Sapphire, taken from another boat as we were just overtaking the Hanse315 at 7am in the morning at the start of a 9 hour race. It was the first of 5 races in the recent Horsburgh Regatta in Singapore. We came in 2nd overall just a point behind the eventual winner – the Hanse in the picture.
Racing an Olson 911S in the 2007 Coastal Cup. A couple days and nights of epic sailing, ranging from surfing like mad along under spinnaker and moonlight, fighting round-ups in 40+ knot gusts off Point Conception, and bobbing around in a dead calm in the Santa Barbara channel.
The Olson 911 is the Carl Schumacher-designed little brother of the ‘34. And she is for sale, at a good price.
Fellow Olson 34 owner Brian Boschma (Red Sky) graciously invited me to crew for the Corinthian Midwinters. I had a great time and made some new friends. This shot is from Saturday; Sunday’s race was in the pouring rain. Good times! Read all about it at norcalsailing.com.
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