Chasing The Blue Beyond

The Caribbean Files · Jamaica · Sailing Adventure Foreign Land Falmouth: Sailing Into the Long Wake of Empire A familiar port entered from four different ships and four different years—where colonial architecture, Red Stripe humour, sugar history, reggae memory, and fine sea mist occupy the same frame. Enter Falmouth See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Port Arrival The newer port of Falmouth looks almost deliberately colonial—British Empire authentic at first glance, but far more complicated once the ship is secure and the story comes ashore. I have sailed here several times across the decade: with RCC, with MSC, and—on this visit—with Disney. The ship changes. The view changes. The port keeps revealing...

Open Ocean · Cabo Memory · Yacht Design The Call Mega Yacht A: Mega Beautiful or Mega Ugly? A bow that appears to float above the water, a submarine silhouette, and one yacht impossible to mistake for anything else. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir The First Question Beauty or Brutalism? Russian oligarch Andre Melnichenko has a mega yacht called A . Is it mega beautiful or mega ugly? The bow seems to rise above the waterline, creating a cool submarine effect. It does not look designed to blend in. It looks designed to provoke a verdict. Some yachts announce wealth. This one announces an argument. Yacht A The Submarine Ef...

7 days can make one weak. Shoveling Sunshine instead of Snow here in F LA. Threw my RL- Regular life overboard this month and found happiness at sea. Cruising is when laziness and slack finds respectability. That is the salt life. It's not an accomplishment just an activity. Can't mistake progress for motion.Yet all those that wonder are not lost because those that do not move, do not notice their chains. Nothing is the hardest thing to do sometimes. All of our problems stem from the inability to sit quietly on deck and look out at the ocean. There are 3 types of people, Alive.Dead AND @Sea.