Tall tales and other thoughts from storyteller, sailor and nomad Dennison Berwick. "Kuan Yin" is his 32-foot go-anywhere home.
Posted in Sailing on Mar 2nd, 2010
Where is she now? Having read many of Eric Hiscock’s books about the voyages with his wife Susan around the world in Wanderer III, I was curious to know more about the boat and where she might be now. The good news is that she’s been down in Antarctica and South Georgia Island (made famous [...]
Posted in Sailing on Feb 16th, 2010
Why do people sell up, move aboard a small boat and sail off into the blue? Some years ago, Cruising World magazine interviewed some of the best known longtime voyagers and liveaboards and asked them what motivated them and what they’d learned along the way. It makes for fascinating reading.
We Just Kept Going: an Oral [...]
Posted in Sailing on Feb 9th, 2010
Why do people sell up, move aboard a small boat and sail off into the blue? Some years ago, Cruising World magazine interviewed some of the best known longtime voyagers and liveaboards and asked them what motivated them and what they’d learned along the way. It makes for fascinating reading.
We Just Kept Going: an Oral [...]
Posted in Books/Language, Sailing on Feb 7th, 2010
Today we take ships and shipping for granted and are far more impressed by the size of an oil tanker or the container ship bringing our latest “must-have” gadget than the extraordinary system of shipbuilding, navigation, cargo handling and trade networks that demand and pay for such behemoths. And we are even less aware of [...]
Posted in Sailing on Feb 1st, 2010
Why do people sell up, move aboard a small boat and sail off into the blue? Some years ago, Cruising World magazine interviewed some of the best known longtime voyagers and liveaboards and asked them what motivated them and what they’d learned along the way. It makes for fascinating reading.
In Part Two, these voiyagers talk [...]
Posted in Sailing on Jan 27th, 2010
Why do people sell up, move aboard a small boat and sail off into the blue? Some years ago, Cruising World magazine interviewed some of the best known longtime voyagers and liveaboards and asked them what motivated them and what they’d learned along the way. It makes for fascinating reading.
“It all began when I was [...]
Posted in Books/Language, Sailing on Jan 26th, 2010
You don’t have to be a sailor to admire Eric and Susan Hiscock. Many people today in Europe and North America, at least, live in similar circumstances to those Eric and Susan were facing – and they made the fateful decision to leave what at the time was a depressed and depressing country to follow [...]
Posted in Books/Language, Sailing on Jan 20th, 2010
Definition of sailing – The fine art of getting wet and becoming ill, while going nowhere slowly at great expense.
Sailors and non-sailors alike are often baffled by all the jargon of sailing; much of it seems obscure and unnecessary and, of course, comes from the great days of square-rigged sailing ships. However, having precise [...]
Posted in Books/Language, Sailing on Jan 9th, 2010
Passage to Juneau, A Sea and Its Meaning by Jonathan Raban.
The Northwest Coast of North America – up through the island-strewn Inside Passage of British Columbia and north to Alaska – is one of the most fascinating sailing areas in the world. Thousands of people travel up there on enormous cruise ships every summer; so [...]
"Serendipity" is the art of finding something valuable or delightful when you're not looking for it. It's how you might also define living life as an adventure - which is something I seek to do everyday - and accepting whatever happens.
