Chasing The Blue Beyond

4:30 AM · New York Harbor · First Land Sailing Into NYC Harbor @ 4:30 AM. Spectacular View. Our smokestack just cleared the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge by a few feet! After six sea days, it is great to see first land, on this special July crossing of the Atlantic. The Crossing Becomes the Arrival Sailing Into NYC Harbor at the mouth of the Hudson River was spectacular. I remember it a lot more than my uneventful return today by ordinary means. Our smokestack just cleared the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge by a few feet! After six sea days at sea, it was great to see first land, on this special July crossing of the Atlantic with Sarah E. Kennedy on Cunard's Queen Mary 2 ocean liner. The Cruising Godfather · Declassified File CG-NYC-01 The Elixir · Landfall The Harbor Appears After six days at sea aboard Cunard's Queen Mary 2 with Sarah E. Kennedy, New York did not feel like another destination...

Sailing across The Pond - The Atlantic Ocean, on the shortest bridge between New York and Europe - The Queen Mary2.  It is not a Cruise but a Voyage, nor a cruise ship,  rather A Liner, the last of the great ocean-going liners.

Hamburg · Queen Mary 2 · The Elbe Hamburg Sailaway The Queen Mary 2 returns to Hamburg every year. For her tenth jubilee, the city answered with a celebration worthy of a flagship. See Full Image Watch the Sailaway Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Field Note 01 The Queen Mary 2 comes to Hamburg every year. For her tenth jubilee, she received a special celebration. The Queen Mary 2 comes to Hamburg every year. For her tenth jubilee, she received a special celebration. The Elbe Responds I took lots of videos and posted them for my friends on Facebook, but this one pretty much sums up the crowd's enthusiastic response as the flagship sails away down the...

Norway · Viking Waters · Return Voyage Glad to Be Back in Viking Waters July 2010 was the last time I visited these remarkable waters. The allure and charm remain. Glad to be back. See Full Image Begin the Return Show Text The Call The Return Field Notes The Elixir The Call Some Waters Remember You “July 2010 was the last visit I made to these amazing Viking waters. They still have the allure and charm. Glad to be back.” The Return The Place Changed. The Feeling Did Not. Returning to Norway is not repetition. It is comparison. The coastline is familiar, but the observer is older. The water has not forgotten its scale, silence, or power. Field Evidence Three Frames from the Return The Waterline Back where the sea, sky, and mountain negotiate the horizon. The Observer Returns The lands...

With a little imagination, the shipping container becomes a cheap, reliable building block that can be used to build  this chic little cruise terminal.

Sailing down The Elbe River this morning, docked in Hamburg.  The last time I was here was in August 2009, two weeks into my 5 year  "World Tour"-here's a picture from back then-

World Cup · Costa Atlantica · At Sea The World Cup at Sea The last time I watched a World Cup from a ship, Spain won in 2010 and the Costa Atlantica was electric. Four years later, the match was replayed onboard—and the ship went strangely quiet. See Full Image Enter the Match Show Text The Call Two World Cups The Night July 2010 The Elixir The Call Football Changes the Temperature of a Ship “Last time I was at sea during a World Cup was 2010 on the Costa Atlantica—and Spain won. The place was electric.” Two Matches, Two Atmospheres Electric in 2010. Empty in 2014. 2010 · Costa Atlantica Spain won, and the ship became a floating stadium. The energy moved through public rooms, corridors, bars, and decks. The Germans were more restrained: they cheered, then left in single file. 2014 · Replay Night Ironical...

After 6 sea days, we took a voyage, not a cruise onboard the Queen Mary2. This is the shortest bridge between New York and Europe. Airplanes, afterall, are like diets - I don't like being on them. The QM2 allows dogs onboard-cute!

Archive File · NYC / Atlantic The Cruising Godfather · Field Notes From The Blue Frontier The Call · Sailaway Nice Sail Away New York is different from the water. Queen Mary 2 makes the distance visible, the harbor theatrical, and departure part of the destination. Queen Mary 2 New York Harbor Sailaway The Long Way Home Watch Featured Film Enter The Story Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir 00 Featured Film · Sailaway Before the story becomes memory, watch the harbor move. This is the lead film for the page: New York receding, the ship taking command of the frame, and the journey becoming real. Nice Sail Away Featured Film · Play in Cinema Mode The whole object of trav...