| the wanderer is, indeed, a sailing vessel. i awoke one morning to the unmistakable sensation of the boat rising and falling on open water. when i crawled out of the forward hatch i discovered we were under full sail just after dawn. it was my second time ever out sailing (two days after the first time), and it was amazing. unfortunately, after about fifteen minutes i noticed a fifteen inch long rip in the mainsail, and we had to pull in the whole sail lest the hole got larger. and then, only then, did elysse emerge from the bowels of the ship with her camera. here we see the skipper and margi on the stern, and a muppet sitting under the boom of the freshly drawn mainsail. |
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| another silhouette of jesse and margi, enjoying the caribbean sun in the early morning... margi's driving, actually, steering from behind the gigantic steering wheel. |
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| and here's one of me, enjoying the ride before i realizing that she was taking pictures of me. |
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| yes, ladies and gentlemen, that's the "take the damned picture" face! also a very good shot of my pot belly beneath my t-shirt. *sigh* |
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| elysse hung upside down off the bowsprit to get this shot of the hull breaking the water. it was cloudy that day, so the picture turned out unnaturally dark, and you can't tell that the anchor is hanging there, as well... |
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i imagine that my parents would freak at the sight of this picture, envisioning such nasty horrors as me plummeting into the water or whatever, but this is actually a very fun way to ride on the boat --- grasping the rigging (those are steel cables i'm holding) and leaning out so that your field of view holds nothing but water. my only fear was that my glasses might fall off.
as a point of trivia (i learned a lot on this trip, you see), that's the honduran flag on the rigging, flown as a courtesy since the wanderer is docking in honduras, but its port of registry is kemah, texas... the courtesy flag is to be flown from the starboard rigging, higher than the port of registry flag (the us flag on the stern). |
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| not every day was sunny, and we didn't always move under the power of the wind. the wanderer has a huge diesel engine (which lives under the galley) to move it around without wind. on this overcast day, we were just interested in getting back to brick bay before dark. this picture was another of elysse' bettie page poses. |
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| another shot of the happy crew... |
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| and another of mister and missus skipper... the sky was breathtaking that night... these pictures hardly do it justice. |
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