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.

Sharks are everywhere if you are looking

 

The Shackleton “Men Wanted” poster defines for us the generation of the heroic. Humans being heroes by leaving the comfort of the contemporary and the safety of polite society to seek the adventure of the unknown.
Today we see the rise of a whole new generation of humans being backpackers,
Leaving the safety of X box and Attenborough docs, and flying into the unknown.
The difference is how prepared for the shark infested unknown is this gen-next.

Adventure under sail among the islands and reefs along the Queensland Coast ,
is the mission statement of the CMM training ship HB .
“Couples Wanted”