Posts by ccohanlon@merveilles.town
(DIR) Post #ARdtCbZLMVskQ8bXvM by ccohanlon@merveilles.town
2023-01-14T17:39:49Z
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The compact, 24-foot, timber, gaff-rigged cutter, Wanderer II, designed in 1936 by English naval architect Laurent Giles and built in 1937 for Eric and Susan Hiscock, who would become Britain’s most famous voyaging couple. They sailed her all over the UK, the Atllantic coasts of Western Europe, and the Azores archipelago, before commissioning a more comfortable and sea kindly 30-foot cutter from Giles in 1951. That boat, Wanderer III, still sails in southern hemisphere high latitudes today.
(DIR) Post #ARfyvEVapqpK1ArzZw by ccohanlon@merveilles.town
2023-01-15T11:49:47Z
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A map of early Polynesian/ Melanesian migration voyages across the Pacific — in open sailing canoes, without navigational instruments of any description.
(DIR) Post #ARgP3j5bcN9JzIQPRY by ccohanlon@merveilles.town
2023-01-15T19:50:49Z
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@atyh That's no longer given much consideration by ethnologists. My wife is 50% Polynesian and her DNA cointains traces of her SE Asian antecedents. There is substantial evidence of very early migrations west through the Pacific from Indonesia and further north.
(DIR) Post #ARh289mqCE0G9tkeQq by ccohanlon@merveilles.town
2023-01-16T06:12:17Z
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@atyh Reminds me of the book Goatwalking (1991) by Jim Corbett: "a manifesto for the revival of pastoral nomadism – leading goats from pasture to pasture and surviving on their milk and wild plants." William Atkin wrote about Corbett, in anrticle titled Goat-Herd Errant: Jim Corbett and the American Borderlands, for Granta, in the UK, in 2019.https://granta.com/goat-herd-errant-jim-corbett-goatwalking-and-resistance-in-the-american-borderlands/
(DIR) Post #ASA92FYIBKdrZ6um5A by ccohanlon@merveilles.town
2023-01-30T07:59:44Z
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The Shannon River, Limerick, Ireland, 2020.Photo by Finn Lafcadio O'Hanlon.
(DIR) Post #ASSvDoRQ5xAwcDPkpc by ccohanlon@merveilles.town
2023-02-07T22:28:43Z
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A family portrait — our son photographing his mother (tearful behind the sunglasses) and father aboard the Frecciarossa TGV, just before its departure from Rome's Termini station, this morning.
(DIR) Post #ASeK20irNGjmx2UWPY by ccohanlon@merveilles.town
2023-02-13T20:25:12Z
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@klardotsh Have you tried Orzo, a barley-derived, non-caffeinated coffee substitute that's quite popular here in Italy? I think it's obtainable via Amazon.
(DIR) Post #ASmFdGh40oI6h1HEfo by ccohanlon@merveilles.town
2023-02-17T16:59:14Z
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"Fuck their borders."Via the Sea Urchins (a France-based collective of 'anti-fascist pirates'). https://seaurchins161.wixsite.com/collective/
(DIR) Post #AT2kq9EBHrKsPWkPi4 by ccohanlon@merveilles.town
2023-02-25T07:55:04Z
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Two years after I shuttered my first effort on Patreon, I have returned there with 'the wrack' — log entries, snippets of memoir, and much else from the unlikely voyage that my wife and I will begin in England next week, .If you can, please support it. https://patreon.com/wrack
(DIR) Post #ATExgqi0up4wlcAqtk by ccohanlon@merveilles.town
2023-03-03T13:47:19Z
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In our sixties and still dreamers:We paid the final balance on the boat today — a 1977 Rival 32 — and she is now 'ours'. We move aboard early next week.
(DIR) Post #AThoUQgPecNdouVR4K by ccohanlon@merveilles.town
2023-03-17T11:19:18Z
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The first piece I’ve published in a few years.Photos by Emmanuel and Maximilien Berque.Thank you, Floriana and Alberto at Sirene Journal, Italy.[Sirene 16, out March 24]https://sirenejournal.com/#sirene-issue-16-intro
(DIR) Post #ATkYA7QOWys8VWBdZY by ccohanlon@merveilles.town
2023-03-18T19:06:31Z
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Old man, old boat.
(DIR) Post #ATqXJn525mDdIf0DDM by ccohanlon@merveilles.town
2023-03-21T16:44:01Z
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#introduction My wife and I live on a sailboat. It is a life-raft of sorts. It's also an island on which we're trying to regain an unsettled but sheltered freedom, even if we are like castaways, with few hopes and no expectations, unlikely to be rescued. We are disenfranchised from the idea of 'home'.
(DIR) Post #AUgNLmSLEMeey0iMQy by ccohanlon@merveilles.town
2023-04-15T17:04:05Z
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Our last morning on the Itchen River, near Southampton — Wrack in the foreground, shortly after we topped her up with fresh water.
(DIR) Post #B0LbWrhAJUCj9KuVSS by ccohanlon@merveilles.town
2025-11-17T19:58:05Z
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@neauoire @vincent I might appear to be the last guy who should offer critical (if somewhat glib) advice like this, but I was once CEO of a couple of well-known, hip companies and the burn-out crippled me and damaged my family so badly I chose to live a broke-ass dirtbag life rather than to put any of us through it again.
(DIR) Post #B16dhR0GmZN4eXBqKW by ccohanlon@merveilles.town
2025-12-10T12:57:44Z
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@neauoire His felt a lot harder and vulnerable. (You might remember, my father is quoted at the top of the first chapter.)
(DIR) Post #B1PuaURqxxC8XAbZjs by ccohanlon@merveilles.town
2025-12-19T20:06:50Z
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@neauoire @rek As I wrote, I didn't think we had options. It has been a marginal existence, a matter of old age and geographical displacement, and our health has had a significant impact, particularly in the past 18 months, but I love being back on the water and *that* has been restorative, inspring, and challenging (the longer passages). I am, by nature a sea-dweller, a waterman (hell, eight of my paternal and maternal great great grandparents sailed on square-riggers to Australia from England, Ireland, and Newfoundland in the 1830s) as much as I am a traveller. I'm never quite as 'whole' when settled, especially ashore. Despite Wrack's age and sea-worn condition, I suspect we've had less problems than those you've described aboard Pino (although Wrack is nowhere near as pretty). Her hull and decks are heavy lay-ups, the keel fully encased. She needs a solid force four to sail well but she's a reliable and surprisingly dry beast when the sea is up. Her rig is low profile, modest and over-supported. Her sails are old but well-maintained. The engine had a 'moment' at the end of the long passage to Sardinia from the Alboran Sea but we've serviced her attentively and by and large, she's been trouble-free. She'll probably need a major refit at the end of next season but by then, probably, so will we. Our biggest problems, with the boat and our lives, in the past few years, are rooted in our poverty and lack of social support (public health, pension, etc.) and adequate income. We're doing our best to change that.
(DIR) Post #B24BFWQSpmgteQ0inI by ccohanlon@merveilles.town
2026-01-08T06:21:54Z
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@neauoire Yeah, never leave gold on the floor.
(DIR) Post #B3FtaMD81kz1ctgmwK by ccohanlon@merveilles.town
2026-02-12T19:52:40Z
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@ccohanlon.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
(DIR) Post #B3Fu4xGaopv1EytqD2 by ccohanlon@merveilles.town
2026-02-12T19:58:10Z
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@neauoire Done.