Castlehom Chronicles

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sail away sail away sail away soon

in my dreams our boats are on two adjacent mooring balls at the mooring ball field i visited last week in Fort Myers (by car a three hour drive from Tarpon Springs by sail 1-3 days).  There is a ferry at Fort Myers that speeds near a 1,000 people to Key West in three hours.  In my dreams MAYA makes it to Fort Myers before me.  I don’t think so but John gone and MAYA in the water what is holding Sailing Survivor here but habit and fear.  I must

sail away sail away sail away soon

John Tarbox is back in Wiscasset, ME, USA.

and where are you

Before John left Tarpon Springs and me and a 38’ LeComte Sailboat in the water not on the hard - he said to me that if you don’t know where you are going - any road will do but as per an earlier post why would “you care” and why would you tell me where you are - at least that is what http://theoatmeal.com/  says should be so but no matter what mr. oatmeal guy says most of us with a blog  do exactly what oatmeal says is a no no because we are writing for our friends or something like that. 

I think “it all depends” and I’ll use a couple links to explain what i mean.

http://typealice.com/blog/

http://www.caitlinjane.com/

Oatmeal guy has his point and he is funny and perfectly clear as to how he hopes his site will pay the rent.  Of course it is not that simple.  Maybe these  sites are an alternative to email.

I have meet Caitlin, I’ve never met typealice but for all my praise of oatmeal, I can see logic and reason, community and caring,  in their blogs.  Caitlin quilts.  Each of them deals  with issues that have not been current in my life for decades.  I was green.  They are too.  But different.  If you are a friend you know how we connect and know more about people we have never meet than people we see every day in the 3D world. 

I mean take this site http://castlehom.com/ for which  mr. oatmeal guy says funny things that apply to its short history – creative destruction is as essential as revolution -  more later – comments invited.

http://jonnyboats.com/Sailboat/tabid/55/Default.aspx

http://www.lecomteowners.com/%20index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=66

Hull # 147 1967 MkII
Altair
Wiscasset, ME, USA
John Tarbox and Carolyn Smith

I miss them and it’s only been days.

My views are a  little different than John’s as for me (at least sometimes) I have had to stop moving to find myself.  Slowing down vs “immer geschäftlich".  On the other hand John’s going North will push me South as I enjoy’d his company here in Tarpon Springs to the point of being stuck.  It is time to mooring ball, anchor out and sail.

Oatmeal

best website I’ve seen in years

may  http://theoatmeal.com/ live long and prosper

Defending the Whales’ World

http://www.seashepherd.org/

In August 1996, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society purchased a new long-range, ice-class, heavy-duty, conservation enforcement ship in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Originally christened Sea Shepherd III, she was re-named Ocean Warrior in 1999 to reflect the missions and campaigns that face her in the new millennium.

She is definitely up to withstanding the ice floes of the Labrador coast, the harsh unpredictable waters of Antarctica and challenging any pirate whaler on the high seas.

The ship was built in 1956 as a Norwegian Fisheries research and enforcement ship. At 54 meters (180 ft) in length and 657 tons (displacement), her one-inch thick riveted, welded steel hull was built to withstand the violent pounding of the storm-haunted North Sea.

The ship’s massive German-built diesel engine drives a variable pitch propeller that is protected inside a Kort nozzle. This means 1400 horsepower, coupled with the swift maneuverability of bridge control of he pitch.

In 2002, after months of bureaucratic paper shuffling and payments of extortionist demands by the Cayman Islands Bureau of Shipping, the Ocean Warrior was re-registered in Canada. She was renamed the Farley Mowat after Sea Shepherd’s International Chair, Farley Mowat, Canadian author and animal welfare advocate.

The Sea Shepherd flagship, the R/V Farley Mowat officially began her career in the waters off Costa Rica appropriately immersed in controversy over policing actions against illegal fishing activities.

She is a protector, and a symbol of hope for a better, more humane, and more ecologically conscious future. The Farley Mowat is, has been, and will continue to be the world’s greatest defender of marine wildlife.

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other ships in the fleet  2009

Thanks to a $5,000,000 contribution from American television personality and icon Bob Barker, Sea Shepherd was able to quietly purchase and refit the former Norwegian whaler in Africa. The ice-strengthened, fast, chaser boat quietly departed from Mauritius on December 18th to join up with the Sea Shepherd ships Steve Irwin and Ady Gil in the Southern Ocean.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Update: Captain Pete Bethune’s Trial Starts Today

The criminal trial against Sea Shepherd Conservation Society volunteer Captain Pete Bethune began in Tokyo on May 27.  Captain Bethune was arrested in March and remains in maximum-security detention in Tokyo.  He was detained after boarding the Japanese whaling vessel Shonan Maru 2 in February to protest the sinking of Sea Shepherd’s vessel Ady Gil (which he captained) as well as Japan’s illegal whaling operations. He faces several charges, including trespassing and property damage.

Contrary to the many inaccurate media reports currently circulating, Captain Bethune has not pled “guilty” to the charges he’s currently facing. If that were the case, there would be no need for a trial. While it is true that Captain Bethune concedes many of the facts related to his charges (such as boarding the Shonan Maru 2 which are of public record), this is not the same as admitting “guilt.” Japan does not do "pleas" in the way U.S. criminal law operates.

Captain Bethune boarded the Shonan Maru 2 to present the captain of that vessel with a three million dollar invoice for damages arising from the Shonan Maru 2’s destruction of the vessel Ady Gil. Bethune also boarded the vessel in an effort to stop it from slaughtering more whales, and his actions did cause the Shonan Maru 2 to prematurely withdraw from the illegal whaling operation in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

sunk

Town Without Pity

Town Without Pity is a 1961 American and West German co-produced film drama starring Kirk Douglas, directed by Gottfried Reinhardt.

It is also the name of a song from that movie, performed by Gene Pitney and covered by many other musicians, including Ronnie Montrose. The film’s score is by Dimitri Tiomkin

Plot summary

Four American soldiers are accused of raping a girl from a German village. Major Steve Garrett is assigned to defend them. During the investigation of the trial, Garrett learns the truth of the girl’s family’s relationship with the other residents of the village. While he faces his own guilt at having to destroy the girl’s credibility on the stand, he must also deal with the knowledge that should he fail, the four soldiers will be executed.

Cast

• Kirk Douglas as Major Garrett
• Christine Kaufmann as Karin Steinhof
• E. G. Marshall as Col. Pakenham
• Hans Nielsen as Karl Steinhof
• Robert Blake as Cpl. Jim Larkin
• Richard Jaeckel as Cpl. Birdwell Scott
• Frank Sutton as Sgt. Chuck Snyder

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Once upon a time Hollywood made movies for ADULTS.

My Son SDL His Art

“To jump right to my paintings, click here for the gallery.

“My name is Shannon Larratt (bio), and you probably know me best through my work in body modification, Internet Casinos, computer-fax integration, and voice telephony, each a field in which I was prominently involved in pioneering central concepts and bringing them into the mainstream. However, I fell into each of these fields “by accident”, and both my academic and personal interests center around art and painting.

“This site contains much of my recent work. Prints will soon be available purchase, or you can download high resolution photos and print them yourself, and in some cases originals (and new commissions) are available. Please contact me at snowrail@gmail.com for the latter, and I hope you enjoy the gallery.

Here is my favorite

“This huge (6′×4.5′) painting started my ongoing kaiju-inspired series. It depicts a game of chess between Godzilla and King Ghidorah with Gamera and Mothra watching, in which the earth is being destroyed in war behind them as Godzilla is defeated with a fool’s mate in the chess game. It’s painted in custom mixed acrylics which include “spices” to represent the moods of the different monsters, and a series of topcoats to improve the texture and tactile feel of the painting.”

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“Life is what happens…..while you’re making other plans.” John Lennon

Out on the ocean sailing away

http://www.parachutesovermiami.com/

archaea, bacteria, eukaryotes, life’s trinity

Saturday, May 22, 2010

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/life-in-the-third-realm/?ref=opinion

Life in the Third Realm

By OLIVIA JUDSON

Tags:

archaea, bacteria, cells, eukaryotes, microbes, ribosome

“But to me their most telling feature is that they have their own set of extremely weird viruses. Not only do archaeal viruses also come in odd shapes — some of them look like little bottles — but the set of genes they have is unlike that of viruses that parasitize bacteria or eukaryotes. In other words, viruses can also be divided into three big groups: those that attack bacteria, those that attack eukaryotes and those that attack archaea.”

Olivia Judson, an evolutionary biologist, writes every Wednesday (sic: NYTs) about the influence of science and biology on modern life. She is the author of “Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex.” Ms. Judson has been a reporter for The Economist and has written for a number of other publications, including Nature, The Financial Times, The Atlantic and Natural History. She is a research fellow in biology at Imperial College London.

recommended reading

http://pookiegroupie.livejournal.com/friends

“I’m a very positive person, very religious and spiritual and everyday is a blessing. Nobody is promised tomorrow and everyone should live like its their last day. Life is worth it, life is beautiful in so many ways so don’t ever take a moment for granted.”

the snake is trouble