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Marine Scientist and Scuba Instructor Marine Educator Reef Ecosystems and bespoke Coral Restoration Installation Curator Shipwreck Artefact Collection Museum Ship Captain/Manager

Mid year Report to Members and Friends

It is the Mid-year 2020 already and time to update all on what has been an unusual first half year activity.
It was December when the vessel was actively sailing and exploring the Islands from Magnetic to Palm to the Brookes and Dunk Islands.
Tested and tried, a sail was torn but otherwise all systems were sea trialled successfully.
A bond was forged with Girringun elders from Palm and Cardwell during this time.
January was time to fix things and Sailmaker and Photographer Lex Prior was able to restore the stitching on the belly of the foresail.
February was hot and Coral and Clams in the fringing reefs of Nelly and Geoffrey Bay showed onset of bleaching event 2020.
March was the hottest periodically and the threat of a virus spread among us.
A duckling joined the crew in isolation
and provided a source of hope in the time of COVID for us, in social isolation down below sea level.
April suggested Virus curve was controlled by the ritual cleaning of hands and keeping distances of metres from one another, the crew felt the moat around the boat was a satisfactory strategy.
Plans to ascend the masts were prepared if windy conditions eased but the windy weather did cool everything including the water and corals and clams survived another bleaching event.
May maintenance and the Masts and spars got 3 coats of Sikkens filter 7.
June is really prepping for a haulout in July.

Thanks for your international interest and support through donations and membership.

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Wanderbird

 Just sharing a quote by Sterling Hayden, always helps me and my crew keep sure. I hope it helps some of you also!

“To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea… “cruising” it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about.

“I’ve always wanted to sail to the south seas, but I can’t afford it.” What these men can’t afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of “security.” And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine – and before we know it our lives are gone.

What does a man need – really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in – and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That’s all – in the material sense, and we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention for the sheer idiocy of the charade.

The years thunder by, The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.

Where, then, lies the answer? In choice. Which shall it be: bankruptcy of purse or bankruptcy of life?”

Sterling Hayden – Wandered


Similar images vessels separated in time 100 years of human effort to further the forces of free trade.
When travel restrictions are lifted
a fair wind predicted
The horizon is beckoning
and by the captains reckoning
Our destination upon the sea
is still within reach

HB in Horseshoe Bay , CMM Marine Ecology Research Charter

1. Orientation

2.  SMS

3. Sail Training

4. Dive Training

 

Art for the times sake

The capacity of the Cairnsmaritimemuseum.org.au cannot be understated …
Time suggests that the ship should sail on ?..
Horseshoe Bay has a Magnetic Attraction for HB expedition and Seatime capacity voyages for fundraising to make our Marine Ecological Research nature experiences possible.
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We get no funding from the Government but that is no impediment but rather sets us free in the GBRMarine Park.