Thursday, April 22, 2004
Have put my kit list together now, looks like a lot maybe!
© spare glasses
© spare sunglasses
© sailing gloves
© gloves √
© Hats √
© Flip-flops √
© Sandals √
© Zippy boots √
© Deck shoes WHITE soles only. √
© Red warm jacket for night watches √
© wet weather gear - trousers √ and jacket v
© woollen jumper/sweater/jersey
© woollen beanie/hat v
© fleece
© long sleeved checked shirt √
© short sleeved black shirt with Islamic style motif√
© trousers against the sun √ √ √ light and airy - Cotton/hemp/nat fibre.
© Sarong √
© Towel √
© Swimwear √
© Red striped shorts √ black shorts √
© Dashing white Lawrence of Arabia style head scarf √
© Navy blue sweatband√
© Flip-flops √
© Life-jacket √
© Inflatable pillow meditation cushion √
© Coco - Green & Blacks
© T shirt Black
© T shirts (asylum and flotilla) √ √
© CD's
© Video's:
© Crouching Hippo Farting Tiger √
© Pulp Fiction √
© Blade Runner √
© The Big Lebowski √
© Enemy of the State/Chunking Express √
© Ghost in the Machine (manga) √
© Glastonbury 2002 √
©
Washbag
toiletries
Medicines
© Don't forget extra medicines, herbal
© Marmite - mosquito repellant
© Wolfblass Chardonnay
Documents: photocopy each
Passport
Tickets
Insurance
Addresses in Australia
Travelers cheques
First Aid book √
© spare glasses
© spare sunglasses
© sailing gloves
© gloves √
© Hats √
© Flip-flops √
© Sandals √
© Zippy boots √
© Deck shoes WHITE soles only. √
© Red warm jacket for night watches √
© wet weather gear - trousers √ and jacket v
© woollen jumper/sweater/jersey
© woollen beanie/hat v
© fleece
© long sleeved checked shirt √
© short sleeved black shirt with Islamic style motif√
© trousers against the sun √ √ √ light and airy - Cotton/hemp/nat fibre.
© Sarong √
© Towel √
© Swimwear √
© Red striped shorts √ black shorts √
© Dashing white Lawrence of Arabia style head scarf √
© Navy blue sweatband√
© Flip-flops √
© Life-jacket √
© Inflatable pillow meditation cushion √
© Coco - Green & Blacks
© T shirt Black
© T shirts (asylum and flotilla) √ √
© CD's
© Video's:
© Crouching Hippo Farting Tiger √
© Pulp Fiction √
© Blade Runner √
© The Big Lebowski √
© Enemy of the State/Chunking Express √
© Ghost in the Machine (manga) √
© Glastonbury 2002 √
©
Washbag
toiletries
Medicines
© Don't forget extra medicines, herbal
© Marmite - mosquito repellant
© Wolfblass Chardonnay
Documents: photocopy each
Passport
Tickets
Insurance
Addresses in Australia
Travelers cheques
First Aid book √
Great news from Matt 'that another boat has joined the Flotillas of Hope for our journey to Nauru for World Refugee Day, June 20th 2004.
The Malahini II and her crew with Alison Buchanan, recognised Aboriginal artist have decided to join the Flotilla heading to the island gulag on Nauru. More news coming soon.'
The Malahini II and her crew with Alison Buchanan, recognised Aboriginal artist have decided to join the Flotilla heading to the island gulag on Nauru. More news coming soon.'
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
'I try to remember that it's not me...
trying to protect the rainforest.
Rather, I am part of the rainforest protecting itself.'
John Seed, Australian rainforest campaigner
Stavros left a great voicemail message yesterday, he is on Eureka with Lance doing groundwork on communications, high frequency radio, laptop, satellite phone and so on. And he just try phoning me, Sydney to Brighton, England and was gobsmacked that it worked!
He was so enthusiastic - brilliant.
I have been scaring myself and activating my catastrophic side by reading my LONELY PLANET Health Guide for Oz, NZ & the Pacific.
ISBN 1 - 86450 - 2. A very interesting read. I need to stay healthy on the voyage. So yesterday I bought some 'health boosters' it recommended on page 60:
Acidophilus - a probiotic to develop an ecological balance of bacteria in the gut
Glutamine - an amino acid for immune system functioning.
Grapefruit Seed Extract - in fact I was given Grape Seed, but its an anti-oxidant so should be good
L-arginine - an amino acid involved in immune function and promotes wound healing
Echinacea - immune booster.
Vitamin C, and I still need to get:
Cats Claw, from the Rain Forrest it has anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties
Aloe Vera - immune enhancer
Hypochondriac? Moi!
trying to protect the rainforest.
Rather, I am part of the rainforest protecting itself.'
John Seed, Australian rainforest campaigner
Stavros left a great voicemail message yesterday, he is on Eureka with Lance doing groundwork on communications, high frequency radio, laptop, satellite phone and so on. And he just try phoning me, Sydney to Brighton, England and was gobsmacked that it worked!
He was so enthusiastic - brilliant.
I have been scaring myself and activating my catastrophic side by reading my LONELY PLANET Health Guide for Oz, NZ & the Pacific.
ISBN 1 - 86450 - 2. A very interesting read. I need to stay healthy on the voyage. So yesterday I bought some 'health boosters' it recommended on page 60:
Acidophilus - a probiotic to develop an ecological balance of bacteria in the gut
Glutamine - an amino acid for immune system functioning.
Grapefruit Seed Extract - in fact I was given Grape Seed, but its an anti-oxidant so should be good
L-arginine - an amino acid involved in immune function and promotes wound healing
Echinacea - immune booster.
Vitamin C, and I still need to get:
Cats Claw, from the Rain Forrest it has anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties
Aloe Vera - immune enhancer
Hypochondriac? Moi!
Wednesday, March 03, 2004
When it’s time to reef
Men often ask when is it time to reef? It is always time to reef when you think it is. The moment you would feel easier and your boat handles better by having less sail spread is the time to shorten down. Never mind what anybody else is doing or what anybody else tells you. It is your boat, not some other boat, that is worrying you, and yourself, and not some other person, who is in charge. Never carry sail for the sake of carrying it; the ignorant may praise your recklessness and pluck, but the experienced man will call you either a lubber or a fool.
Never let the action of another guide you in this particular, unless the action agrees with your own judgement… When I was young and fresh I had an idea that if anyone could carry sail on a boat I could do the same. One day I had a lesson that made me think and partially cured me of the habit. I went with a clever old boatman across the Sound to bring home a new cat. We each took a crew, and, to return, he sailed the new boat, and I the one we had come over in. Halfway across it came to blow very hard… my crew wanted me to stop and reef but as the new boat kept on… I was afraid of being thought a coward… When at last, after a struggle and half full of water, we reached port, the old man met me with a torrent of invectives… “But you didn’t reef,” I protested. “Reef!” he exclaimed. “No, for I couldn’t; but I’d given fourteen dollars if I could have got that sail down. Do you think I was carrying the whole sail for fun?” It seems the halliards, being new, had jammed, and they could not get the sail down, so had to lug it. This taught me a lesson… and often times when I see a man struggling along under too much sail, I wonder if he, like the old boatman, wouldn’t give fourteen dollars if he could get that sail down.
Thomas Fleming Day
====================
Ruth
Men often ask when is it time to reef? It is always time to reef when you think it is. The moment you would feel easier and your boat handles better by having less sail spread is the time to shorten down. Never mind what anybody else is doing or what anybody else tells you. It is your boat, not some other boat, that is worrying you, and yourself, and not some other person, who is in charge. Never carry sail for the sake of carrying it; the ignorant may praise your recklessness and pluck, but the experienced man will call you either a lubber or a fool.
Never let the action of another guide you in this particular, unless the action agrees with your own judgement… When I was young and fresh I had an idea that if anyone could carry sail on a boat I could do the same. One day I had a lesson that made me think and partially cured me of the habit. I went with a clever old boatman across the Sound to bring home a new cat. We each took a crew, and, to return, he sailed the new boat, and I the one we had come over in. Halfway across it came to blow very hard… my crew wanted me to stop and reef but as the new boat kept on… I was afraid of being thought a coward… When at last, after a struggle and half full of water, we reached port, the old man met me with a torrent of invectives… “But you didn’t reef,” I protested. “Reef!” he exclaimed. “No, for I couldn’t; but I’d given fourteen dollars if I could have got that sail down. Do you think I was carrying the whole sail for fun?” It seems the halliards, being new, had jammed, and they could not get the sail down, so had to lug it. This taught me a lesson… and often times when I see a man struggling along under too much sail, I wonder if he, like the old boatman, wouldn’t give fourteen dollars if he could get that sail down.
Thomas Fleming Day
====================
Ruth
Thursday, February 19, 2004
_________________________________Dare to Vision___________
Out of this darkness a new world can arise, not to be constructed by our minds so much as to emerge from our dreams. Even though we cannot see clearly how it's going to turn out, we are still called to let the future into our imagination. We will never be able to build what we have not first cherished in our hearts.
1. Attune to a common intention. This intention is not a goal or plan that you can formulate with precision. It is an open-ended aim: May we meet common needs and collaborate in new ways.
2. Welcome diversity. Self-organization of the whole requires differentiation of the parts. Each one's role in this unfolding journey is unique.
3. Know that only the whole can repair itself. You cannot "fix" the world, but you can take part in its self-healing. Healing wounded relationships within you and between you is integral to the healing of our world.
4. You are only a small part of a much larger process, like a nerve cell in a neural net. So learn trust. Trust means taking part and taking risks, when you cannot control, or even see, the outcome.
5. Open to flows of information from the larger system. Do not resist painful information about the condition of your world, but understand that your suffering for the world springs from interconnectedness, and unblocks feedback that is important to the well-being of the whole.
6. Speak the truth of your experience of this world. If you have persistent responses to present conditions, assume that they are shared by others. Willing to drop old answers and old roles, give voice to the questions that arise in you.
7. Believe no one who claims to have the final answer. Such claims are a sign of ignorance and limited self-interest.
8. Work increasingly in teams or joint projects serving common intentions. Build community through shared tasks and rituals.
9. Be generous with your strengths and skills, they are not your private property. They grow from being shared. They include both your knowing and your unknowing, and the gifts you accept from the ancestors and all beings.
10. Draw forth the strengths of others by your own acknowledgment of them. Never prejudge what a person can contribute, but be ready for surprise and fresh forms of synergy.
11. You do not need to see the results of your work. Your actions have unanticipated and far-reaching effects that may not he visible to you in your lifetime.
12. Putting forth great effort, let there also be serenity in all your doing; for you are held within the web of life, within flows of energy and intelligence far exceeding your own.
Joanna Macy
___________________________________________________
Posted by Ruth
Out of this darkness a new world can arise, not to be constructed by our minds so much as to emerge from our dreams. Even though we cannot see clearly how it's going to turn out, we are still called to let the future into our imagination. We will never be able to build what we have not first cherished in our hearts.
1. Attune to a common intention. This intention is not a goal or plan that you can formulate with precision. It is an open-ended aim: May we meet common needs and collaborate in new ways.
2. Welcome diversity. Self-organization of the whole requires differentiation of the parts. Each one's role in this unfolding journey is unique.
3. Know that only the whole can repair itself. You cannot "fix" the world, but you can take part in its self-healing. Healing wounded relationships within you and between you is integral to the healing of our world.
4. You are only a small part of a much larger process, like a nerve cell in a neural net. So learn trust. Trust means taking part and taking risks, when you cannot control, or even see, the outcome.
5. Open to flows of information from the larger system. Do not resist painful information about the condition of your world, but understand that your suffering for the world springs from interconnectedness, and unblocks feedback that is important to the well-being of the whole.
6. Speak the truth of your experience of this world. If you have persistent responses to present conditions, assume that they are shared by others. Willing to drop old answers and old roles, give voice to the questions that arise in you.
7. Believe no one who claims to have the final answer. Such claims are a sign of ignorance and limited self-interest.
8. Work increasingly in teams or joint projects serving common intentions. Build community through shared tasks and rituals.
9. Be generous with your strengths and skills, they are not your private property. They grow from being shared. They include both your knowing and your unknowing, and the gifts you accept from the ancestors and all beings.
10. Draw forth the strengths of others by your own acknowledgment of them. Never prejudge what a person can contribute, but be ready for surprise and fresh forms of synergy.
11. You do not need to see the results of your work. Your actions have unanticipated and far-reaching effects that may not he visible to you in your lifetime.
12. Putting forth great effort, let there also be serenity in all your doing; for you are held within the web of life, within flows of energy and intelligence far exceeding your own.
Joanna Macy
___________________________________________________
Posted by Ruth
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
Joseph Conrad
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Hi all, Ruth here, glad to be up and running on the shipsblog.
Ruth's current position - approx 31 South 151 East
Eureka's current position approx 33 South 151 East
I am going on this voyage because I see my own children's faces at the barbed wire. Until the asylum seekers are free my children (and I) never will be.
I am also going because this is what I CAN do. I am a sailor, who loves the open sea in all it's manifestations. I must go...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sea Fever
John Masefield
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking.
I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
All I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the seagulls crying.
I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way, where the wind's like a
whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And a quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I am getting incredible sensations that this thing is bigger than I can even begin to imagine. When Stavros and I began discussing this voyage, we were both clear that even if a vessel doesn't actually depart Australia we have already achieved a high degree of success. Through publicity, and through gathering a team of highly motivated, highly skilled and creative people (take a huge bow folks!) into a beautifully courageous and audacious quest. To offer hope and ultimately to bring freedom to the people on Nauru and the other penal colonies Australia has reserved for those who risked all to find safe haven.
Well, we now have several committed vessels as well as a number of people considering their capacity to join the flotilla. It is real.
Other issues have become apparent in our planning of this voyage. The concern that sovereign nations are being paid to do Australia's bidding - Nauru and Papua New Guinea (where, on Manus Island, a lone Palestinian refugee is being held) have no choice but to take on our human cargoes for the price of Australia's continuing financial aid. The issues concerning the people of the Chagos. The issues of this government's lies and sidestepping responsibilities to the human's on board the vessel known as SIEVX (suspected illegal entry vessel X). All these things compound to make the voyage to Nauru an absolute necessity.
I hope more of you come on board for the Voyage of a Life(time)...
Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
Joseph Conrad
=============================================
Hi all, Ruth here, glad to be up and running on the shipsblog.
Ruth's current position - approx 31 South 151 East
Eureka's current position approx 33 South 151 East
I am going on this voyage because I see my own children's faces at the barbed wire. Until the asylum seekers are free my children (and I) never will be.
I am also going because this is what I CAN do. I am a sailor, who loves the open sea in all it's manifestations. I must go...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sea Fever
John Masefield
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking.
I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
All I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the seagulls crying.
I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull's way and the whale's way, where the wind's like a
whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And a quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I am getting incredible sensations that this thing is bigger than I can even begin to imagine. When Stavros and I began discussing this voyage, we were both clear that even if a vessel doesn't actually depart Australia we have already achieved a high degree of success. Through publicity, and through gathering a team of highly motivated, highly skilled and creative people (take a huge bow folks!) into a beautifully courageous and audacious quest. To offer hope and ultimately to bring freedom to the people on Nauru and the other penal colonies Australia has reserved for those who risked all to find safe haven.
Well, we now have several committed vessels as well as a number of people considering their capacity to join the flotilla. It is real.
Other issues have become apparent in our planning of this voyage. The concern that sovereign nations are being paid to do Australia's bidding - Nauru and Papua New Guinea (where, on Manus Island, a lone Palestinian refugee is being held) have no choice but to take on our human cargoes for the price of Australia's continuing financial aid. The issues concerning the people of the Chagos. The issues of this government's lies and sidestepping responsibilities to the human's on board the vessel known as SIEVX (suspected illegal entry vessel X). All these things compound to make the voyage to Nauru an absolute necessity.
I hope more of you come on board for the Voyage of a Life(time)...
Monday, February 16, 2004
Well, finally made it to Blog Land after sailing through rough seas and reefs of passwords and usernames. It's kinda strange writing a log for a journey that began all that time ago >>> Novemeber 18, 2003, the date that an email was sent into the world. Now, we all know, that little email mustard seed is growing into a big tree, maybe even a giant tree of a flotilla.
What I'm excited about is that there are other flotillas being formed across the planet for social justice issues. I'm thinking here of the Diego Garcia campaign to bring Chagossian people back home to their original land - Diego Garcia. It seems sometimes there is a broad synchronicity operating across the planet and that people sometimes are touched by the same ideas or attitudes simultaneously without knowing it. When this happens a few times then you can't help but feel that there is a much larger plan afoot.
How doe we know that the Flotillas of Hope is not part of a larger global manifestation that we cannot see yet? That only in the fullness of time will we be able to comprehend where we are heading. I have a feeling that this is the case, that what we are doing by going to Nauru to bring hope to the refugees caged there is part of a global emergence of like minded people who will be part of a World Fleet or World Flotilla. This World Flotilla will visit places of shame and bring pressure to bear on authorities that abuse human rights to change their ways.
Yes, I look forward to seeing what the future brings. I'm really keen to see many more boats!!
stavros
What I'm excited about is that there are other flotillas being formed across the planet for social justice issues. I'm thinking here of the Diego Garcia campaign to bring Chagossian people back home to their original land - Diego Garcia. It seems sometimes there is a broad synchronicity operating across the planet and that people sometimes are touched by the same ideas or attitudes simultaneously without knowing it. When this happens a few times then you can't help but feel that there is a much larger plan afoot.
How doe we know that the Flotillas of Hope is not part of a larger global manifestation that we cannot see yet? That only in the fullness of time will we be able to comprehend where we are heading. I have a feeling that this is the case, that what we are doing by going to Nauru to bring hope to the refugees caged there is part of a global emergence of like minded people who will be part of a World Fleet or World Flotilla. This World Flotilla will visit places of shame and bring pressure to bear on authorities that abuse human rights to change their ways.
Yes, I look forward to seeing what the future brings. I'm really keen to see many more boats!!
stavros
Tuesday, February 10, 2004
This morning a large thump on the mat announced the arrival from Ruth, my sailing guru, in Newcastle, Australia of my ZEN & the Art of MARINE RADIO**: MARINE RADIO OPERATORS HANDBOOK (** everything you wanted to know about marine radio but were afraid, or couldn't be arsed to ask)
This morning I have learnt that if the Eureka is in '...grave and imminent danger..." we send a DISTRESS SIGNAL; M A Y D A Y, then the DISTRESS CALL;
MAYDAY
MAYDAY
MAYDAY
THIS IS
EUREKA (+ CALL SIGN)
EUREKA (+ CALL SIGN)
EUREKA (+ CALL SIGN)
and then the DISTRESS MESSAGE
POSITION
NATURE OF DISTRESS
OTHER
So even though I am a borderline nerd, even I may have been bored by this before, but now my life and others may depend on it, it all seems compelling bedtime reading!
Joty
whingin' pom
City of Brighton
England
Planet Dyslexia...
This morning I have learnt that if the Eureka is in '...grave and imminent danger..." we send a DISTRESS SIGNAL; M A Y D A Y, then the DISTRESS CALL;
MAYDAY
MAYDAY
MAYDAY
THIS IS
EUREKA (+ CALL SIGN)
EUREKA (+ CALL SIGN)
EUREKA (+ CALL SIGN)
and then the DISTRESS MESSAGE
POSITION
NATURE OF DISTRESS
OTHER
So even though I am a borderline nerd, even I may have been bored by this before, but now my life and others may depend on it, it all seems compelling bedtime reading!
Joty
whingin' pom
City of Brighton
England
Planet Dyslexia...
