Crews abandoned by Bosses https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/26/losing-hope-with-every-day-that-passes-torment-of-the-ships-crews-abandoned-at-sea

#seafaring #merchantmarine #exploitation #Capitalism

#Photography https://www.seafarerstrust.org/life-sea/picture-of-%E2%80%98weary-resilience%E2%80%99-wins-life-at-sea-2024-photography-competition

Feeling so thankful and empowered and blessed and fierce about both being in Hawai'i as part of an intercultural leadership development/ exchange program, and also getting to see in person Hōkūle‘a right before her 50th birthday. (https://hokulea.com/history/)

I feel today what the great Walt Whitman wrote:
"Sail forth—steer for the deep waters only,
Reckless O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me,
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go"
Photo is the closest I've yet gotten to that vibe, but someday...

“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

The #patience of some #crafters & #artists is incredible. These #lace #creels are beautiful.
https://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2024/01/03/whalsay-woman-unveils-lace-creels
#Craft #Shetland #Whalsay #seafaring #knitting #sculpture

I call this one "Full Sail", because the wind was so strong, the waters so vivid, and the sunset so low and bright on this February day in the Florida Strait. One of the most fun evenings I ever spent.