Es gibt für mich nix Schöneres, als durch einen Yachthafen zu laufen, dem Wind in den Wanten zuzuhören, dem Klingklong der Marineros, die Yachten an Land für die anstehende Saison fertig machen.
Als Segler kommt man überall schnell ins Gespräch. Stolze 800 Euro kostet ein Liegeplatz bis 10 Meter in Can Pastilla — im Monat!
Obwohl, sagt mein lokaler Gesprächspartner, das sei billiger als ne Wohnung in Palma. Nu läuft wieder mein Kopfkino: https://blog.ring2.de/ein-winter-in-palma/
Time for an #Introduction post. I’m a #liveaboard #sailor (www.svloka.com) and full time #nomad who is also a #creative #artist. I play #guitar, #crochet, paint (#watercolor & #acrylic), and draw #penandink. I love #yoga and use #meditation to manage my #anxiety. Got #sober in 2020.
I am a recovering #softwareengineer (#programmer) and #ITmanager. I focused a lot on #leadership & effective #communication, and I still enjoy #mentoring people on those topics. I still tinker with tech on occasion.
Just posted a trip recap from my journey to St. Kitts and Saba on the Caribbean Explorer II last January! I hope you enjoy the write-up and (most of all) the pictures.
For the fuller picture see the National Bargee and Traveller Association
Wovon Segler träumen
Was machen Segler im Winter? Sie träumen, vom Segeln.
Manche segeln wirklich das ganze Jahr durch. Wenige haben sich auf den Weg gemacht, nach Süden bspw. über die garstige Biskaya. Oder durchs Festland durch.
Heben und senken sich entlang deutsch regierter Flüsse, begradigt und automatisiert, tingeln monoton über kleine Nebenarme bis zur Rhone. Dort soll dann die Zeit wirklich stehen bleiben, erzählt Ivan und schwärmt: „Du reist mit fünf Knoten mitten durch Frankreich. Legst an einer der vielen uralten Schleusen an, deren Brüder oberhalb Du händisch bedienen musstest und hoffst darauf, dass der kleine Gasthof und sein Wirt Lust haben, dir den Käse und den Wein der Region näher zu bringen.
In Gedanken bin ich die Strecke schon oft gefahren. Manchmal, an einem besonders klammen Winterabend, studiere ich die Fluss- und Kanalkarten des ADAC und gehe in mir auf Fahrt. Adieu norddeutscher Winter.
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https://blog.ring2.de/auf-see/wovon-segler-traeumen/
#Liveaboard #Segeln #Winter
It's been a year of posting about live-aboard narrowboating on the UK's canal network.
By scrolling through the past 330 posts, you can see the first seasonal cycle and read how boats and canals work.
Any thoughts? Questions? Requests?
Do you know where #liveaboard is an option in the #Netherlands?
Rain. RAIN. R-A-I-N-!
Not moving the boat anywhere today.
This morning I found a puddle on the step inside the stern door because the combination of wind direction and intensity of rain was "just right" for water ingress.
Also: stuck a hand in the hole to the water tank where there had previously been water ingress, but after sealing the bow-door cill in the spring, that now feels completely dry.
By a rural field, I saw a worker waiting on the offside bank of the canal, rubber suit wet up to his chest, holding up a bucket like he didn't want it to get wet. Then I spotted another worker in the shallow water by the offside bank, with a spade.
No path, no boat. How'd they get there?
Once I boated past, they waded in to cross the canal, back to the towpath side. One walked across, the other floated.
Scribbled Pufferfish in the Thailand’s Andaman Sea. Your #sealife #photooftheday
#sunday #fish #Sony #SonyAlpha #Nauticam #Inon
sea #ocean #marinelife #animals #nature #wild #wildlife #outdoors #explore #environment #earth #water #climatechange #reef #photo #photography #pictureoftheday #picture #Indianocean #AndamanSea #Thailand #liveaboard @thesmilingseahorse
“Four months after moving aboard our boat, we still think of ourselves as vagabond travellers, our boat a shambolic, floating vardo that we haven’t yet managed to turn into a home.”
– from my essay, How I Live, 2023
[via The Idler magazine]
https://ccohanlon.tumblr.com/post/729085873559371776/how-i-live
Join me this week for the first of our sessions where we answer your questions. These include, our mooring, why we chose to live afloat & how Donna felt about it, night-time cruising, and canal holidays.
https://www.noswpod.com/questions-1/
#podcast #liveaboard #narrowboat #canal
We are in the process of turning our fast cruiser Elan E4 into a live aboard boat to cruise Aotearoa and the South Pacific. We previously spent four years living aboard an S&S 34 in the Atlantic and Mediterranean at around the turn of the century…
Currently based in Auckland and planning a month shakedown cruise to the Bay of Islands for a month over summer.
First question from the new owner of our boat: What are these bubble sounds from outside the boat!?
It's one of the more fascinating aspects of life on small boat. The nightly hunting sounds of pistol shrimps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC6I8iPiHT8
When it gets quiet, you will hear them. Not everywhere, but in many places. Often a hundred times per second, because they produce a very loud sound that carries a long distance through water and enters through the hull.
Hi ! New to Mastodon, and flailing around a bit. I am totally blind and still adjusting even though it has been over 4 years. Previously I lived aboard my boat for over 10 years. I am a civil engineer/creative writer/Moth Storyteller.
#introductions #blind #liveaboard
One of the nicest places on my #sailing trip so far. L‘Aber Wrac‘h in #brittany, #France.
You can find more about me and my trip on https://www.smallocean.de
#Introduction
I am a life-long #Cyclist and #Tandem rider.
Until I retired I was a #Computing Officer and #Python programmer. I have a flat in #Edinburgh, but am mainly a #LiveAboard #Narrowboater on @Bartimaeus
Bartimaeus is a #Hybrid diesel electric #LiveAboard #Narrowboat cruising on the #Canals of England and Wales.
On a scale from 1 to 10:
How crazy is it when you don't have much experience sailing or being a liveaboard - let alone own a boat - but you already have a name in mind for that non-existent boat?
#sailing #liveaboard
