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23 Things We Learned From Rian Johnson's 'The Brothers Bloom' Commentary
Commentary Commentary By Jack Giroux on June 26, 2014 | Be the First To CommentIf you're not convinced more Star Wars movies is a good idea, then the news that Rian Johnson will be writing and directing Star Wars Episode VIII should win you over. Johnson knows structure, action, comedy and character, making him the ideal filmmaker to make Star Wars fresh and exciting again. Not only do his talents make him the right filmmaker for the job, but so does his thematic interests. Looper and Johnson's second picture, The Brothers Bloom, are about how much control someone has over their own narrative. Bloom (Adrien Brody) feels like he's living a story written by his brother Stepehen (Mark Ruffalo), while Old Joe (Bruce Willis) and Young Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) battle over the course of their shared, separate life. In short, a franchise focused on creating your own destiny is right up Johnson's alley. Out of Johnson's three films so far, The Brothers Bloom is the one that's probably talked about the least. It was met with a lukewarm response from critics, and it kind of got lost in the shuffle back in 2009, but it's a richly structured flim flam movie full of heart. It's as much about brothers as it is the con. The relationship between Bloom and Stephen lives beyond the movie; Brody and Ruffalo let us learn these characters so thoroughly that it's easy to imagine other adventures they'd gone on. We revisited the film with the commentary track on. Here's what we learned.
29 Things We Learned From Darren Aronofsky's 'The Fountain' Commentary
Commentary Commentary By Jack Giroux on March 27, 2014 | Be the First To CommentThe Fountain and Noah are, in some ways, companion pieces. Director Darren Aronofsky's 2006 sci-fi mini epic is a movie about facing death. Its character must accept the singular rule of the universe: everyone dies. Noah focuses on the one man who has to allow almost everyone to perish, but like The Fountain, it still deals with a man accepting his destiny, no mattew how dire it may seem. Some claim Aronofsky's latest will divide audiences and critics, but it likely won't match the polarized response The Fountain received, a movie that was downright hated by some. To this day that remains a shame because it's Aronofsky's most emotional, complex, and rewarding film. The main problem with Aronofsky's films in general is that, no matter how good they may be, they're pretty surface-level dramas. Black Swan, as fun as it is, spells out its themes again and again, never leaving room for much interpretation. The Fountain does that too, but what it says sticks with you in a way his other films don't. With Aronofsky's other efforts you get the same film you saw on first viewing, but that's not the case with The Fountain. Aronfosky's commentary for the film validates this belief. He doesn't breakdown what it all means, but instead chooses to focus on the making-of and the kind of details that make his film grow richer on repeat viewings.
Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz Have Put Themselves Under the Control of 'Dogtooth' Director Yorgos Lanthimos
Casting Couch By Nathan Adams on February 3, 2014 | Be the First To CommentYorgos Lanthimos is one of those filmmakers whose reputation proceeds any new movie he makes, but when you first gain worldwide attention by making something as shocking as 2009's Dogtooth, that's bound to be the case. It's not just the content of Dogtooth that made it so memorable to those who watched it though, it was the way in which Lanthimos was able to introduce his viewers to a world that was intensely jarring and disorienting, all while keeping his eye on the human heart of his story and giving the audience just enough of an emotional anchor to hold on to so that the film didn't degenerate into substanceless shock or absurdity. The same was also true, though probably to a lesser extent, with his 2011 film Alps. Now that he's getting ready to make his first English-language film with his first cast of familiar Hollywood actors, however, it's going to be interesting to see what, if anything, changes about his approach to storytelling. He once again wrote the script for his new film, The Lobster, with his regular collaborator, Efthymis Filippou, so one might think that there wouldn't be too much of a stylistic shift between it and his past work, but, on the other hand, now that there's a report that Lanthimos' new film will be starring names as mainstream as Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz, is it possible that he could be utilizing their talents to make something as weird and niche as his last few […]
Review: 'Oz the Great and Powerful' Is Neither, But Damn That Flying Monkey Is Funny
Movie Reviews By Rob Hunter on March 8, 2013 | Comments (1)Hollywood trend #74 goes like this. Pick a classic children's tale that hasn't been adapted in the past few years, say Alice in Wonderland or Snow White maybe, then build a new film around it that substitutes excessive CGI for imagination and physical comedy for characterization. Oh, and be sure to improve upon the source material by throwing in a big third-act battle between armies too. Anyway. Oz the Great and Powerful is a new look at a land we are all too familiar with thanks to L. Frank Baum's books and a little movie called The Wizard of Oz. Director Sam Raimi's film predates Dorothy's classic adventure to show how the wizard actually became the wizard in the first place, but just because it takes place in a magical world doesn't guarantee a magical experience.
New 'Oz: The Great and Powerful' Poster Gets Wicked
Movie News By Scott Beggs on December 19, 2012 | Comments (1)Sam Raimi's Oz: The Great and Powerful crashes down on audiences in March, and while we've already gotten a great look at the world they've built for it (while crossing our fingers that it won't be an Alice in Wonderland clone), we haven't been given a look at the villainous Wicked Witch of the West. It is, without a doubt and zero hyperbole, the biggest villain-based mystery of all the 2013 releases. Is she being played by Mila Kunis? By Rachel Weisz? By Benedict Cumberbatch? The production has kept it a relative secret — hiding Kunis and Weisz's characters under new Ozian names (Theodora and Evanora respectively) and including them to varying degrees in the trailers, but the poster above looks an awful lot like Weisz in green make-up, and the stuff we've seen so far suggests her character just might lose it and turn to the dark side. Let's all obsess about it until March, and in the meantime, enjoy this dramatic one sheet from Disney.
New 'Oz The Great and Powerful' Trailer Pretends It's An Epic
Movie News By Scott Beggs on November 14, 2012 | Comments (2)If Disney's Oz the Great and Powerful ends up being another Alice in Wonderland-level exercise in style over substance, the parallels to its main character are going to be too obvious to dismiss. In the film, James Franco plays Oscar Diggs, a Kansas con-man magician who does tricks illusions and enjoys tricking illusioning people out of their coins. During a hot air balloon stunt, he's pulled into a tornado and whisked away to the strange land of Oz where three good witches (played by Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz and Michelle Williams) implore him to rid the world of a wicked witch. The only problem? He only talks a big game, and he might not be able to deliver any real magic. The plot in its vague form mirrors The Wizard of Oz directly, and the look of the universe tries for the CGI expansiveness of Alice, but hopefully Sam Raimi has been able to make the movie his own. With a new trailer comes new hopes and concerns. It looks like a lot of fun, but some of the dialogue (and the delivery) sounds like first draft exposition. It's also not hard to think of Franco as a bored actor at this point, and there's nothing here to disabuse anyone of that notion. However, the callbacks to the 1939 classic are spot-on and exciting. Maybe this could be a real epic after all.
Casting Couch: Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader Forever, The Rock Finds an Excuse to Pack on More Muscle, and More
Casting Couch By Nathan Adams on November 8, 2012 | Be the First To CommentWhat is Casting Couch? It's not an actual couch, you guys. Seriously, stop it. Kristen Wiig may have walked away from her regular gig on Saturday Night Live to focus on her film career, but she would be insane to walk away from the chemistry she has with her former SNL cast mate Bill Hader; getting those two together is always a comedy goldmine. And though they've appeared together as a big screen duo before, they've never really gotten the chance to anchor a film together as the stars. That all changes now! Variety is reporting that the twosome have signed up for an indie comedy called Skeleton Twins, where they will play two estranged twins who reunite after both have near death experiences on the same day. Luke Wilson is also set to appear as Wiig's husband, a character who is described as being a "nature frat boy," whatever that means. Regardless, the results are bound to be hilarious.
Review: 'The Bourne Legacy' Includes Action and Promise, Leaves Out Third Act
Movie Reviews By Neil Miller on August 9, 2012 | Comments (2)Closure is a funny thing. Many great stories feature the quest for closure. It's something that, as humans, we are often looking for with great intensity. Where have we come, how did it end and what did it all mean? For the Bourne franchise, based on the books by Robert Ludlum and launching Matt Damon as a righteous American answer to James Bond, closure is something that came along in 2007 with The Bourne Ultimatum. A franchise that came on with a flurry of excitement and pulse-pounding action was brought to a rest with the dizzying style of director Paul Greengrass. And it was good. It was over. Until Universal and Tony Gilroy, who served as writer on the second and third Bourne films, decided that it was time to give this story one more chapter. The only problem with The Bourne Legacy is that even though they brought down the paddles of the defibrillator and shocked this franchise back to life with great electricity, they missed the part of every movie that is important, be it the first part of a trilogy or a stand-alone effort: they missed the closure.
Tony Gilroy: 'Michael Clayton' Wouldn't Pay for 'The Bourne Legacy's' Catering Budget
Features By Jack Giroux on August 8, 2012 | Be the First To CommentFrom the aesthetic to its own protagonist, Tony Gilroy did some work to distance The Bourne Legacy from the previous, Jason Bourne-led trilogy. Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) isn't Bourne, and The Bourne Legacy isn't a carbon copy of the voices Doug Liman and Paul Greengrass helped shaped this series with. His mythology-expanding feature focuses on one man with one simple goal – which doesn't involve his identity, finding forgiveness, or getting revenge for his girlfriend's death. As Tony Gilroy told us at the start of the summer, the Michael Clayton director didn't want to "lose the balls." With an edgy anti-hero in the lead – one who's capable of using either a wolf or a fire extinguisher to save his own skin – Gilroy kept the balls of this series intact while also exploring new thematic corners of the Bourne universe. If Gilroy is correct, we'll soon see more episodic and expansive mega-blockbusters told in the vein of The Bourne Legacy, and it's a prediction the Academy Award nominee seemed excited by.
Review: '360' Is a Soulless, Misery-Driven Experience
Movie Reviews By Jack Giroux on August 3, 2012 | Be the First To CommentDirector Fernando Meirelles's career is taking a quick and dumbfounding fall. After giving us arguably one of the greatest films of the modern era, City of God, and a satisfying follow up with The Constant Gardener, Meirelles has fallen into misery porn-level drama which would even make a fellow character executioner like Alejandro Iñárritu cringe at the ridiculous obstacles the characters in 360 are forced to stumble through. At a near-two hours, Meirelles's ensemble piece becomes an astonishingly immersive experience, solely in the way it puts the audience in the uncomfortable and dull state a few of its characters are stuck in. Those characters include a former sex offender (Ben Foster), a bored married couple (Jude Law and Rachel Weisz), an unsatisfied gangster, a dentist in love, a prostitute (Lucia Siposova), an elderly father (Anthony Hopkins) searching for his missing daughter, and some other wasted character whose main purpose is to ridiculously put Tyler, the sex offender, in a seriously uncomfortable situation.
A 'Rachel Weisz Is Fit' Related Giveaway! Win 'The Deep Blue Sea' On Blu-ray!
Free Stuff By Rob Hunter on July 28, 2012 | Comments (55)Rachel Weisz is one spectacularly talented actress. She doesn't get the award accolades of Meryl Streep, but she's as good. She doesn't get the hubba-hubba comments of Jessica Biel, but she's as beautiful. And she doesn't get the high profile, big budget blockbuster roles of Kristen Stewart, but she's, well, she's older. Her latest film is sumptuous period drama, The Deep Blue Sea, that finds her playing a young wife trapped in an unexciting marriage to an esteemed judge. A chance meeting with a RAF pilot (Tom Hiddleston) leads to a tumultuous affair that may very well be the end of her. Music Box Films released the film on Blu-ray/DVD earlier this week, and in addition to the highly acclaimed film itself the disc includes commentary from director Terence Davies, two special 'making-of' features and interviews with Weisz and Hiddleston. Keep reading to see how you can win a copy of The Deep Blue Sea on Blu-ray.
Sam Raimi's New 'Oz the Great and Powerful' Trailer Is Fantastical But Suspiciously Low on Prison Rape
Movie News By Rob Hunter on July 12, 2012 | Be the First To CommentIt's been three years since a Sam Raimi film graced theaters and five since he's had a box office hit (sorry, Drag Me to Hell), but he returns to the big screen next year with something substantially different than his usual fare. In fact, if the lead were Johnny Depp instead of James Franco you might be forgiven for thinking this was a Tim Burton joint. Oz the Great and Powerful is an upcoming Disney film that posits the origin of L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz (the man, not the story). Oscar Diggs (Franco) begins as a mediocre magician in the dustbowl of a black and white Kansas before boarding a hot-air balloon for an ill-fated ride into a tornado. The journey lands him in Oz where he comes face to face with creatures, people, three witches and technicolor. Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, and Michelle Williams play the three witches, and that's really all the reason one needs to want to see the movie… Check out the trailer for Sam Raimi's Oz the Great and Powerful below.
'Oz the Great and Powerful' Gets a Poster Worthy of Its Title
Movie News By Scott Beggs on July 5, 2012 | Be the First To CommentRight around the time that the 67th poster of two stars leaning back to back hits theater lobbies is when the pessimism about modern one sheet design starts to creep in. Fortunately, there's always a handful of excellent posters dotting the year to keep hope alive. Thank you, Oz the Great and Powerful poster, for keeping hope alive:
'360' Trailer Reminds Us That Fernando Meirelles' Work Really Can Be Stunning
Movie News By Nathan Adams on June 7, 2012 | Comments (1)Sure, Fernando Meirelles disappointed everyone with 2008's Blindness, but that disappointment stemmed from the fact that he had already directed films as good as City of God and The Constant Gardener; expectations were through the roof. Now that we've all been knocked back down to Earth, maybe we can take a more balanced, cautious approach to his latest film, 360, which has just released a trailer. What does he have in store for us this time? The first thing that jumps out at you when you watch this trailer is the realization of how good the cast is. It's kind of hard not to get excited for a film that's headlined by names like Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Ben Foster, and Anthony Hopkins. The other thing that's instantly striking is that Meirelles still seems to be on point as far as the visuals of his films are concerned. Despite the fact that 360 seems to just be a tale about people's relationships, with a little bit of menace and deceit thrown in, you would think that it was some sort of epic, globe-hopping thriller if you watched it without audio. Not only are there gorgeous locations on display, but everything is shot with Meirelles now trademark blend of classically beautiful photography and cutting edge, stylish experimentation.
'The Bourne Legacy' Trailer Stands On Its Own But Never Lets You Forget Matt Damon Got There First
Movie Trailers By Rob Hunter on May 31, 2012 | Comments (4)The announcement that the Bourne franchise would continue without Matt Damon was met with skepticism by many, including myself, for several reasons. The most relevant? Matt Damon played Jason Bourne. How could the franchise continue without him and his character but still call itself a Bourne film? Would another actor step into his shoes a la James Bond, or would it simply be another case of an agent with amnesia going rogue? The answer turned out to be neither, and instead, rather ingeniously, The Bourne Legacy is a parallel story that begins during the third act chaos of The Bourne Ultimatum. Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) is a top agent who finds himself caught up in the Bourne fallout when the agency attempts to cover their tracks by terminating his co-workers. He's forced to go on the run alongside an agency scientist (Rachel Weisz) while trying to out maneuver new a executive-level baddie played by Edward Norton. Some familiar faces from the first three films crop up along the way to flesh out the connective tissues between films, but this is really an introduction to a brand new character… and possibly a brand new trilogy of films. Check out the trailer below, and tell me your not at least a little excited to see this.
Tony Gilroy Says 'The Bourne Legacy' Will Present "A Wider Horizon" to Franchise's Mythos
Features By Jack Giroux on May 2, 2012 | Be the First To CommentThe Bourne Legacy is not only one of the most highly-anticipated films of the summer, it's a unique chance to revisit the blockbuster franchise with a different star at the helm. Meanwhile, co-writer/director Tony Gilroy, one of the key creative voices behind the original trilogy, is preserving the series' lore while giving its events a broader and more epic context. As the film's trailer observes, "Jason Bourne was just the tip of the iceberg," and Gilroy's insights about the direction he took the franchise in, for the first time as both writer and director, suggest that this expansive view of the world of Bourne was part of his plan all along. But as if embodying the director's perspective, Jeremy Renner's character Aaron Cross isn't an unknown entering a larger world, but an experienced agent who knows exactly who he is and what he's meant to do. Speaking to the Academy Award nominated filmmaker recently, Gilroy talked about reviving the franchise via The Bourne Legacy, revealing how he paid tribute to longtime fans even as he looked to a broader horizon, and the organic approach he and cinematographer Robert Elswit approached the picture with.
Trailer for 'The Bourne Legacy': Welcome to the Program, Jeremy Renner
Movie News By Kate Erbland on February 8, 2012 | Be the First To Comment"There was never just one." Well, that's a nifty way to explain why Matt Damon isn't in the latest installment of the Jason Bourne franchise, The Bourne Legacy. Damon's out, and Jeremy Renner is in as another victim and/or participant in shady Project Treadstone. This first stylized trailer (complete with Inception-esque "brannngsss" and "brrahhhhmmms") introduces us to Renner's character – a bruiser from Reno who is on the run after showing some impressive stuff to all those government heavies who've gone through this already with Jason Bourne. Don't you think Joan Allen's Pam Landy is just exhausted by now? Join the program and check out the trailer for The Bourne Legacy after the break.
Kevin Carr's Weekly Report Card: September 30, 2011
Features By Kevin Carr on October 1, 2011 | Comments (3)This week, Fat Guy Kevin Carr is all giddy because apparently Joseph Gordon-Levitt has decided to copy his signature hairstyle. Undeterred by folks telling him Gordon-Levitt shaved his head to play the role in 50/50, Kevin tries to lobby other Hollywood actors to copy his image. Unfortunately, What's Your Number? star Chris Evans refuses to grow a huge belly and Dream House star Daniel Craig just won't latch onto Kevin's charming American accent.
Movie News After Dark: Rachel Weisz, David Hasselhoff, Star Trek and David Lynch Sells Coffee
Movie News By Neil Miller on May 12, 2011 | Comments (1)What is Movie News After Dark? It's a nightly round-up of all things interesting and wonderful happening in the world of movies. At least, that's what it was born as. Lately it's been feeling as if it might be more of a Rachel Weisz News After Dark kind of column. A Rachel Weiszsexual, if you will. And yes, that's the technical term. It's a tough affliction to live with. Because their just isn't enough Rachel Weisz in the world. Luckily Hollywood is hell-bent on changing that… Guess what this week is… Rachel Weisz week. Based on a survey of our male 18-35 demographic, which represents a solid percentage of our readership, this is somehow preferable to all of my updates about Doctor Who. I don't see why, as Doctor Who is excellent. But I can understand your affinity for Rachel Weisz news. Anyway, she's not only in line to take a high profile role in Oz the Great and Powerful and The Bourne Legacy. According to a report from Cinema Blend, Weisz is high on the list to star opposite Johnny Depp in Rob Marshall's remake of The Thin Man. Even though that film sound unnecessary, we just can't say no to more Rachel Weisz… can we?
Movie News After Dark: Rachel Weisz, Community, Dinosaurs vs. Aliens and Lego Jack Sparrow
Movie News By Neil Miller on May 11, 2011 | Comments (1)What is Movie News After Dark? It's a nightly movie news column that wishes it could recreate the world using Legos. It would begin with the cast of Community and Rachel Weisz. It would then have them play one of the most epic games of paintball ever! Sal Mineo can come, too. Rachel Weisz may be doing more than taking a trip to Oz with James Franco and Sam Raimi. Word on the street is that she may also land a leading role alongside Jeremy Renner in The Bourne Legacy. In other news, I enjoy leading off my nightly columns with pictures of Rachel Weisz.
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"This is really tremendous to see this," said Supervisor Bill Horn. "With this the county is much better served." The fire master plan provides an assessment of the volunteer firefighter programs, apparatus, equipment, and facilities within the San Diego County Regional Fire Authority and identifies needs over the next five years. "It moves towards our goal, which is to be the best prepared that we can be," said Supervisor Dianne Jacob. "This is very exciting to all of us." The master plans first chapter is an executive summary. The remaining chapters cover mission and vision statements, values, an introduction and background, a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis, organizational structure, emergency response, cooperative agreements, staffing, apparatus and equipment, facilities, training and emergency medical services along with a safety development program, fire Advertisement "The fire master plan represents a solid investment in the San Diego County Fire Authoritys future," said San Diego County Regional Fire Authority program manager Herman Reddick. "This fire master plan is going to improve our fire and EMS delivery service further," said San Diego County Regional Fire Authority fire chief Thom Porter, who is also the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection unit chief. "It will help to develop those volunteer stations." The $2.1 million appropriation includes $1.6 million for two fire apparatus vehicles and for fire station improvements in Pine Valley. That money was obtained from the Fire Safety Trust Fund. An additional $500,000 from the Public Safety Groups fund balance will provide for the two staff positions. One of those will provide logistical support needs and the other will oversee management of administration, budget, financial planning, and other administrative matters. "We will continue to procure apparatus," Reddick said. "Its important to have that equipment. You never know when the emergencys going to happen," Horn said. 3 comments
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Do WE, THE PEOPLE get to vote on this directly? If not, why not?!
@Lee: Here we go again..... Because Lee, "we" are not a member of the board of supervisors.... we the people elected the board of supes.... they, in turn, represent the people in their districts. I'm curious about your education.... this ain't rocket science....
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Life is difficult enough for people entering their teens. As difficult as it might seem for most people, the pressures of suddenly expanding quasi-adulthood must be extremely difficult for kids entering adolescence with serious chronic diseases. Local non-profit CHOIR Stars�looks to give these kids some creative direction through instruction in the arts. With programs in art. Dance, music, theatre and writing, CHOIR works with kids suffering from chronic problems with Hematology, Oncology, Immunology� and Rheumatology. (The C stand for "Camp for.")� The non-profit's website doesn't go into a great amount of detail on specifics, but a quick search online revealed couple of firsthand videos by people involved in the program. A musician with hemophilia�and a writer with lupus�among them.
This month, the touring production of HAIR is aiding CHOIR Stars through an Ain't Got No Bongos! Fundraiser performance on February 26th.�An undisclosed percentage of the ticket sales for the 2pm February 26th performance of the touring Broadway show at the Marcus Center will� go to CHOIR Stars. From 9 am – 5pm, they will also be accepting donations of new bongo drums for the organization. Those interested in helping the cause without having to see another production of HAIR are encouraged to check out the groups website.�


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We have just had our Re-release show for Inter-Be. It was a sold out show at the Turf Club and people traveled from the high hills of East Saint Paul, to the lowlands of South Saint Paul, all to Central Saint Paul. We kid. We are however thankful of the many family and friends who were able to make the show, and were excited to host some out of towners. In celebration of the good folks at Jagjaguwar helping us release the album we'll be hitting the road. Wanted to give you the low down on the upcoming dates as well as to give notice to our fancy new merchandise promptly displayed on the right. Thank you for taking the time to check in with us and please know Peter will try to update the page often from the road. We hope you enjoy.
Tour Dates:
May 30th Grand Little Theater//Eau Claire, WI
June 7 Mojos's//Columbia, MO*
June 8 Off Broadway//Saint Louis, MO*
June 10 Locals Only//Indianapolis, IN*
June 11 Schubas//Chicago, IL*
June 12 Grog Shop//Cleveland, OH
June 13 Ninth Ward//Buffalo, NY
June 14 Great Scott//Boston, MA
June 15 Pianos//New York, NY
June 16 Mercury Lounge//New York, NY
June 18 Union Hall//Brooklyn, NY
June 19 DC9//Washington D.C.
June 21 Vernor's//Pontiac, MI
June 22 Rock Island Brewing//Rock Island, IL
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A lot has happened since the last update. I finally moved back to West Virginia, and for two weeks I was without a computer. Most of that time was spent settling in, from moving furniture and painting, to the unpacking of boxes and figuring out where my large desk would finally go. But now everything is slowly returning to a familiar routine. When it comes to the comic, I think it's safe to say I lost a month's worth of possible work. I have started back to my daily grind, and I'm looking at January when I'll be able to start updating again. I mentioned about posting on the blog here again, and while I don't have anything to post at the moment, I hope to have something by the end of the month.
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In a centuries-old fishing town two hours north of Boston, gentrification was bound to happen. But on the way to the refurbished warehouses and arty boutiques, Portland managed to preserve its locavore ethos, which is rooted in a 243-year-old farmers' market. Now the gastronome scene is as good as the saltwater access. Urban farmers set up shop in East Bayside, growing organic produce and fermenting mead year-round, and lobstermen and fishermen keep the harbor in the Old Port's waterfront district bustling. But there's more than just food here: there are paddle-friendly shores on Casco Bay and hurricane-induced surf on the Atlantic beaches, while two hours away lie the long trails of New Hampshire's White Mountains. Real estate is affordable, and there are jobs to be had: Portland is the state's commerce capital, and L.L.Bean's corporate headquarters are 20 minutes up the road.
Staying Power: In 2006, Portland launched a robust sustainability plan that included a 30-mile expansion of its waterfront trails, a buy-local campaign that helped stabilize the economy, and a tax-funded program to expand and restore public art. Downtown there are half a dozen microbreweries, including Allagash and Shipyard, and 38 restaurants that keep the brick warehouses filled with energy.
Playgrounds: There are nearly as many kayakers as lobstermen plying the waters of Casco Bay, and whitewater paddlers can journey north to the Class IV–V Penobscot and Kennebec rivers. Cape Elizabeth is only a 30-mile road ride from Portland, and in winter, two of the East Coast's best ski resorts are within a three-hour drive—Sunday River and Sugarloaf.
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The main reason I even looked at Fairmont State was for the aviation program in Clarksburg. After a campus visit and an introduction to the honors program Fairmont State looked better and better. Truthfully, the Florida Institute of Technology stole my heart with their botanical garden campus but the cost of tuition was simply too much and Fairmont allowed me to keep my promise scholarship. The fact that I only live about an hour and a half away made a small contribution to my decision.
The sheer amount of extracurricular groups and activities has pleasantly surprised me. I had always kind of figured if I wasn't doing homework, I'd just be sitting in the dorm bored.
So far the honors program has been a great experience. I only knew 2 or three people coming up here and no one from my graduating class at George Washington was coming to Fairmont. The honors program has allowed me to step into a group that is very open and laid back. I almost feel like some of the people I've met I've actually known forever. I knew going in that meeting new people was one of the most important things I could do to get started and honors greatly helped with that.
My main advice to seniors trying to pick a college is go with somewhere you feel comfortable. Campus visits are everything. Don't base your decision on the food either. It all depends on whether or not you actually feel comfortable with the fact you'll be living there for weeks if not months at a time. Five minutes in Morgantown told me that WVU was simply not my speed.
As of a week and a half in, I have not noticed much difference between my high school honors/AP classes and my college honors classes. There is a slight change in the fact that there is actually less busy work and more test and quiz preparation. However this seems to be true with almost any high school to college transition.


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Michelle Armstrong, author of "Manage Your Mind, Master Your Life," will be keynote speaker at the annual Women in Service Celebration hosted by Zonta Club of the Santa Clarita Valley on Saturday, April 5, at the Valencia Country Club.
The event will honor women nominated by local organizations for their volunteer contributions to the community. The highlight of the morning will be the presentation of the Carmen Sarro Community Service Award to the one honoree whose contributions have made the most impact on the local community.
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The agenda for the formal part of this year's annual meeting is as follows:
7.15pm SGM
7.20pm AGM
December 2014 – Christmas get-together
Chipping Norton Yacht Club Christmas get-together was held at The Cotswold Club, which looked very festive dressed overall (nice nautical expression, eh?) with bunting and flags. They greeted us with a glass of Prosecco, and laid on a special celebratory buffet. We ran a continuous slide/video show of members' recent photos and videos, provoking, as had been hoped, questions and comments; and re-awakening memories of a season on, around, or thinking about, the water. The bespoke crackers contained nautically-themed gifts of which the miniatures of rum were particularly popular with us tars, although one has to confess that the hats suited us no better than is usual.
There was a not-too-serious quiz questionnaire on each table, which got a few arguments going.
The winning table won a box of chocolates; another prize, a bottle Prosecco went to team Spencer and Levermore for best photo, taken in the Corinth canal. It was a relaxed and most enjoyable evening.
November 2014 – Sam Llewellyn
Sam LLewellyn, sea novelist, celebrated storyteller, columnist for Classic Boat and PBO and editor of the Marine Quarterly, talked about Britain's attitudes to, and relationship with, the sea.
Sam was the first CNYC speaker not to use visual aids. We did not miss them however, as Sam is an author by trade, and a wordsmith who can conjure up images with a well-turned phrase. His talk was humorous, personal, provocative, erudite and challenging- refreshing, in a word.
Sam's theme was the sea in the context of our island nation and not, as he put it, as a "bathing platform for the bourgeoisie". He offered six perspectives: the sea as nuisance, moat, motorway, fishery, heritage and playground. He stressed the importance of understanding the sea, not from looking at it from the land, as though it were a backdrop to a watercolour, but by getting up close and dirty. (My inelegant phrasing, not his – ed.)
Sam dismissed the moat perspective as being a "Daily Mail" view… (politics showing, Sam?), and told us that the Navy still run those "useless 35 knot sharp grey ships" – frigates and destroyers – because one can't rise to the rank of Admiral without commanding one. Rationally they'd be better off with less sexy craft, in the style of container ships, carrying helicopters.
We tragically waste the opportunity of the sea as a motorway, given how many small ports can still accommodate coasters. There are 150 that can take a 3000-ton coaster, he told us. Think of the lorries that could be taken off the road.
We have made quite a hash of managing our fisheries, according to Sam. He harked back to the day, long gone, when the then novel technique of trawling was outlawed, on pain of death. Not, he hastened to point out, that he favoured capital punishment.
Heritage? Pity we've spent so much parking the Cutty Sark aground on a greenhouse, when for the money we could have built one (and a half, he claimed) replicas that could sail.
As playground, 'tis a shame, Sam opined, that 33% fewer people get out on the water than did 10 years ago. Sam has a strategy to reverse that, and get us all out there, and not just for a few minutes between yachtmaster courses. Sam's teenage experiences included character-forming time at Les Glénans sailing school ("boot camp?") with a languid Gauloise-chewing instructor, and he recommended the Glénans Sailing Manual to us. It transpires that Sam's characterful Aunts were sailors, and did at some point sail around the world but didn't want anyone to know, as that would be "showing off"…
We had some culinary advice, centring on ships' biscuits' tendency to rot if only cooked once and the meaning of "bis-cuit" – which is, naturellement, French for twice-cooked. That stops the rot. In the context of safety at sea and changing attitudes he told of the captain who insisted his crew wear lead divers belts, so that he wouldn't have to waste time going back for them if the went overboard…
Sam talked of boat show paranoia, and the way the salesmen size up their victims. He dislikes big plastic boats, TVs on boats, marine mortgages ("you can't call that freedom"), and inboard engines (outboards have the great advantage that when troublesome they can be taken off and sent away). Sam asked if any of us have experience of a Yuloh. None did. But at least one of us knows what it is, which is unusual. That's Chipping Norton Yacht Club for you.
October 2014 – Frances Miller – Around the world in 15 years
Frances addressed our October meeting, following much hard work by her and Rear Commdore Hugh Woodsend in gathering and shaping material into an exemplary presentation.
James had planned a round-the world voyage for his retirement. He bought an Endurance 35 ferro-cement (i.e. concrete) bare hull and spent 5 years creating the ketch, "Tara", out of it. Projects like this are incredibly time, money and effort consuming; and are not for the faint hearted, impractical or pessimistic. James was clearly none of these.
After retirement from the Navy James joined a local authority and was, as it happened, recruited by Frances, who went on to became his companion – not only on this monumental voyage but for the rest of his life. Frances had sailed before - dinghies, she told us, as a teenager in the Tripoli Dolphin Services' Yacht Club, in the days before Gaddafi.
The plan? To go! For how long? Well, it would evolve. Where to? Well, that depended on the weather, how the boat fared and which bits broke, where; what rebuilds they would do, what visas they could get…
The circumnavigation started conventionally enough with a transatlantic passage to the West Indies, but soon they decided to add Canada, the USA along the Intracoastal Waterway, and Bermuda to the itinerary before resuming the passage westwards through the Panama Canal and across the Pacific to New Zealand. Once in New Zealand, The Bay of Islands became a base from which to spend several years of cruising the Pacific Islands and Australia. I lost count as to how many times they shuttled between New Zealand and Australia…
The boat was rebuilt two and a half times during the voyage. One of the disadvantages of building ones own boat to a budget, as James had, is that compromises often have to be made (in James' case, fitting a used Perkins 4108 diesel). One of great advantages, however, is the intimate knowledge you've gained, so you can nearly always fix things, or know how to work around problems….
Frances' mother had grown up in Bermuda, and the couple seemed to have friends, or quickly make friends, almost wherever they went. So visiting places with family connections, picking up with friends, success in getting help, and long stays in port, were a core feature of this grand voyage. Fishing, on the other hand, wasn't….they caught 10 fish in 15 years.
The return voyage took Tara round the top of Australia and on to South Africa, finally completing the circumnavigation in the Azores.
We have heard and read many times about the extent to which blue water cruising sailors value, and have to develop, self-reliance. But James and Frances seem to have taken this to another level. It seems they uniquely combined self-reliance, a strong partnership, and the ability to make friends and get help wherever they were. These are the enduring messages from this presentation. And it is good to be reminded that it is not only the young who have ambition, drive and ability. James was sailing well into his eighties, and even then did not "swallow the anchor". Tara was sold and replaced with a Dutch motor boat, now in the South of France (and for sale – RB), in which they then cruised for several years, but that's another story…
September 2014
Commodore Duncan Wheatley paid tribute to James Jacques, who died this month after a long illness. James was one of the Club's most distinguished members and will be greatly missed; Duncan extended condolences on behalf of the Club to partner Frances, who was with us in the audience. We look forward to hearing Frances tell us more about James, and their 15 year circumnavigation, at our October meeting.
Our speaker was Tom Cunliffe – a big man who has done some big and fairly intrepid things, many of them in big, heavy, traditional, boats. Tom's theme was pilot cutters – boats that have a deserved reputation for seaworthiness, capability and elegance. He has owned several, pumped a lot of water through some of them, and was infectiously evangelical as to their virtues.
Many of us associate pilot cutters with Bristol, and although this is not wrong they are not limited to that part of the world, despite the Bristol heritage. The Bristol Channel has strong tides of large range, and few havens. Shipping needed the guidance of pilots, whose boats had to be capable of sailing (and heaving-to) in difficult waters, and being crewed by a man and a boy – sometimes just the boy. We heard about the privations and dangers of being a pilot and Tom recounted the example of a pilot's wife, who had kept marrying pilots after she was widowed by them, one after t'other. Seven of them, apparently.
Bristol Pilot Cutters are solidly built, long-keeled, gaffers with counter sterns, low freeboard and a gentle sheer. The Norwegian variety tend to be double-ended, often Colin Archers. As to seaworthiness and sea kindliness Tom explained stability curves, which show how the righting moment of a vessel relates to its angle of heel. These curves, though factually correct in their own terms, are misleading as they only show what happens to a heeled boat statically, in flat water. The dynamic of a boat moving through lumpy water is something else. Typical pilot cutters have large moments of inertia deriving from their construction, ballast and heavy spars. This gives them a slow reaction to upsetting forces – so slow that the problem wave or gust will often have passed by before the boat reacts in a significant or dangerous manner, unlike many modern designs.
Modern boat designers tend to think in terms of accommodation and equipment – pilot cutters were built first and foremost as boats; then and only then did the builders work out what to put in them.
In attempting to defend against an accusation of working on the Sabbath on a boat, in Brazil, Tom had mentioned that Jesus was a carpenter. "Maybe so", came the reply, "but he didn't have a power plane!"
We were accused of having a bourgeois attitude to leaks. Tom sees no problem in having to keep pumping, as long as one can keep up, and the pump doesn't fail. Admittedly he had to half-inch his young daughter's plimsoll sole on one occasion to replace a leather flap-valve…
July and August 2014 socials
These were both at the Chequers (which was, incidentally and appropriately enough, called the Anchor before a name change in 1794/5). The July event was themed as a BBQ to honour the hope of fine summer weather, without the risks of actually holding an outdoor event.
The conversations flowed as well as the drinks and it was great to have the opportunity to get to know other members (and their guests) better. It is always surprising what one learns. We are quite an interesting bunch, with in many cases, sailing as only one of many pursuits, here and overseas. Some are working up plans for bigger boats and more distant shores, some have done all that and are downsizing or even having to "swallow the anchor" …
June 2014 social
For our June summer social evening we visited the local and famous brewery at Hook Norton – one of only 32 family owned breweries and probably the finest example of a Victorian Tower Brewery in the country. In two groups we enjoyed a conducted tour, admiring the 1899 steam engine that "can be used" still, to power the brewery, through an impressive engineer's wonderland of shafts, belts and cogs. A diminutive (by comparison) electric motor does much of this work most of the time nowadays…. We got our hands and noses dirty, chewing samples of barley and sniffing various hops; we peered into the tanks, mills (including of course the "grist mill"), and tuns through which the liquor passes as it is transformed into beer. The office in which brews are designed and recorded has no visible computer – we heard that records go back to the beginning and that every now and again an old recipe will be resurrected, with or without a modernising tweak. The evening ended in the Visitor's Centre, where the bar was open for us to sample their beers – and sample we did, growing just a tad more noisy as the evening wore on. There's something rather admirable about a free bar, in today's world. It was just a tiny bit of a shame that one of the specials a few of us particularly liked was an experimental brew, not available to buy, not even in barrel. Perhaps we should suggest a Chipping Norton Yacht Club brew, sporting our emblem? The House of Commons has its own Scotch, I know of a college or two that bottle their own Sherries…
If you missed the tour there's a nice video here.
May 2014 meeting
A hardy core of CNYC members braved a damp Wednesday evening and were suitably rewarded with a delightfully relaxed evening at the Cotswolds Club. Two of our committee were in the chair.
Hugh Woodsend, who is responsible for the excellent presentation technology used at our meetings stepped out from behind the projector to encourage us all to have a go at making films whilst sailing. Starting with a few key pointers such as "keep the water out" and a rather alarming insight into film editors, Hugh then entertained us with an excellent film he made whilst kayaking on the Beaulieu River.
Initially impressing the audience with a few facts about kayaks (did you know you someone paddled around Australia in 330 days….), it became clear to anyone that knows the Beaulieu that the most relevant and useful attribute of a kayak is its draught or lack thereof. This opens up considerable opportunities and these were most interestingly exploited by the film-maker. We now know that the Beaulieu is a privately owned river and it was the primary site for developing and testing floating harbours for the D-Day landings.
Bucklers Hard, we learnt, was the location of the building of the HMS Argamemnon, a 64 gun Royal Navy ship of the line in 1777 which was later captained by Lord Nelson and proclaimed his favourite ship. Continuing the military theme, Beaulieu Palace, now the home of a motor museum, was once the "finishing school" of SOE during the Second World War ahead of being parachuted into war torn France.
By now we had forgotten that this was an amateur film, shown to demonstrate what can be done with relatively simply tools and were entertained to a thoroughly professional and engaging presentation of the side of the Beaulieu River that most deep keeled cruising yachtsman would never see. We are now considering Hugh as front-runner for the head of the CNYC kayaking section!
Members will recall from our previous meeting we were unable to field questions on the presentations of two of our members and that we would attempt to redress this. Carl Baxter reminded us of his sailing exploits through the Kiel Canal and the canals of Holland en route to the Beaulieu River. Carl would be happy to help anyone planning on sailing in this region and has access to considerable resources for planning such a trip.
Our final speaker of the evening was Chris Adams, a committee member and head of our very active Scotland section. Chris provided a very informative presentation covering a variety of blog tools, either provided specifically for sailors or that can be readily adapted to the needs of sailors in all waters.
A blog can be as private or public as you want and is mainly just a really good way of keeping a visual diary, combining photos with a few words, whilst allowing you to share this with interested family and friends – or the whole world if you want! The software ranges from 'very simple' to just 'simple' and the free services are more than good enough to create a very professional look.
For sail cruising the key requirements are the ability to include photos, text and a map – and, from Chris' experience, to be able to post the blog by sending an email rather than doing this online. Sailing in the Western Isles places severe demands on email or web communications; Chris likened this to clouds of communication that sometimes waft over the boat; transmissions need to be short and made when you sail through a good signal. In other sailing locations, particularly along the South Coast, 3G can be found quite a way offshore, and the luxury of interactive services are available for building blogs with rich media content. That said, email posting is quick, easy, can include photos and other media and is very flexible. Once you have a template set up it ceases to be a chore and becomes an enjoyable way of reflecting on a day's sailing.
Chris provided many examples of different blogging approaches using his own blog for Swallow as a case study. He has kept a blog for the last 5 years using MailaSail, a pay service specifically for sailors (http://blog.mailasail.com/chrisadams) but recently has largely migrated this to WordPress (http://swallow342.wordpress.com), which is both free to use and allows a more individual look. All of Chris' posts (on both platforms) have been made by email – with only a small amount of editing once back home. Another good, free platform is Blogger, which is where our Commodore is known to post the odd blog (http://yachtliquidasset.blogspot.co.uk/). Finally, take a look at Barnaby Scott's blog (our webmaster) – documenting his progress as he builds Luely, his 'Haiku' sharpie (http://boat.waywood.co.uk).
Chris would be happy to help any member thinking of setting up their own blog. It only takes a couple of hours and can be immensely rewarding.
April 2014 meeting
46 Members and guests came to our April meeting to hear two presentations: one telling of a fascinating trip through lowlands, and the other rich with adventures and misadventures on the high seas.
Carl Baxter's informative presentation was called 'The Backdoor to the Baltic'. He entertained us with his account of a trip from Denmark via the Baltic, the Kiel Canal to Cuxhaven, the Frisian Islands on the northern German/Dutch coast ("Riddle of the Sands" territory), returning through the land-locked IJsselmeer, the Markermeer, and the Dutch canals. He shared pictures of charming medieval Hanseatic towns; of less charming Nazi architecture surviving as it did allied bombing; of a steam locomotive powering through the heart of a small town; of dicing with container ships in locks of vast scale (when the smaller "sport" lock was shut); and of dropping €5 bruggeld (bridge fee) into a proffered clog at the end of a fishing line.
The final passage back across the Channel to Dover had held fears for the crew but as it happened (and as a photo recorded) she read whilst motoring across in the sunshine, on a windless day in a flat sea.
Carl found Brian Navin's Cruising Guide to the Netherlands, and the ANWB publications (including the "Standmast" route showing options to traverse the Netherlands with mast up) most useful, and offered to lend to anyone thinking of visiting this area. (Roger Backhaus is a member of the ANWB, the Dutch equivalent of the AA which in their case includes waterways as well as roads, and has, or can easily source, this and related material for anyone who is interested – Ed.)
Carl was followed by husband-and-wife double act (and what a fine double act) of Carolyn and Alistair Roberts telling us of their 2-year circumnavigation. The talk was entitled: "How not to sail around the world – but succeed all the same!"
They started with buying a boat – their first. What they wanted was a well-appointed Warrior 40. The closest affordable match, however, was an elderly Warrior 38 with (as it transpired) a Volvo engine that wouldn't last the voyage, a deck that leaked, and fresh water tanks that would fail.
While the whole circumnavigation was badged as a rally, from and to Gibraltar, they were often far from the others and had to fend for themselves. Deliberately avoiding a travelogue style, they took us instead through the mishaps and misadventures, and confessed their own lack of preparedness for this kind of voyage. Despite this, they came through unscathed, still together and smiling.
Although extremely experienced and well qualified sailors, they found they had a lot to learn about boat husbandry, repairs and maintenance far from professional help, the tight management of food, fuel, water, and electricity, the ineffectiveness of fridges, and the advisability of tethering the dinghy with two painters. There were a number of "whiskey moments" in the face of adversity, some of which ran rather closely together, and some splendid examples of innovative solutions to problems – a clever arrangement of bits of pipe, a jerry can, and a bilge pump, for example, to keep the geriatric Volvo running through one of its more senior moments.
There were dramatic and dangerous notes. They were in the water in Thailand when the 2004 Tsunami hit, and the water fell away before returning to tear out anchors and toss boats ashore. India provided a haven to recover.
There were also many wonderfully positive notes: the first cold beer in Nelson's Harbour, Antigua; the fauna on the Galapagos; the local Pacific island people; the uninhabited islands to lord; the diving…
If they had one message to leave us with it was: "don't commit to deadlines!" They did, by arranging to meet up with their two daughters, twice, en route… a joy, but with what stress!
You can read about their exploits in "Rally Round the World" available as an i-book or Kindle download, or in paperback. Visit the self-publishing website here for details.
March 2014 meeting
Robert Miller told us about Elsa Hammond, an Oxford graduate now doing her PhD at Bristol. She is planning a record-breaking row across the Pacific – 2400 miles, from California to Hawaii, in aid of Plastics in Oceans; and is looking to borrow an EPIRB, a PLB, a hand held GPS and water containers. If anyone can help he asks them please to mail her at firstname.lastname@example.com or make contact via her website.
Roger Backhaus (as Membership Secretary) gave us an update on member numbers. We have 63 to date – down on our initial year's 120 or so, but we continue, as we did last year, to have a very healthy turnout at our monthly meetings, and function fine at this level. Additional members are nevertheless to be encouraged.
On funding, Roger (wearing his Treasurer hat) told us that that expenditure this year will be lower than last. In our first year we had professional website costs (the website is now managed by Barnaby), we were hiring AV kit (now provided by Hugh) and we had one-off burgee/logo design costs. We have plenty in the coffers for our 2014 programme.
Visiting speaker Bob Comlay then presented his personal and gripping talk "Travels with Tilman".
Tilman was a gentleman adventurer, born into comfortable financial circumstances in the reign of Queen Victoria. He served in both World Wars, conquered Himalayan peaks, and in his latter years (when "too old to climb") took up sailing. Sailing, in his terms, meant taking heavy and already elderly gaff-rigged Pilot Cutters into the Arctic, with an assortment of crew picked up from advertising in The Times. Tilman's signature advertisement read:
"Hands wanted for long voyage in small boat.
No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure"
(Some in our audience seemed to find this amusing. Can't think why.)
Bob Comlay was then a student. He applied to crew, was selected, and went on to sail with Tilman on two arctic voyages; he saw and did things few youngsters would get a chance to see or do, or dare to do, and as a result took 5 years to complete his 3 year degree course.
Bob showed us wonderful pictures of Greenland, of fjords, icebergs, growlers, fog, and cod-drying racks. The skipper and crew (including himself) were captured on film (yes, film) in woollen hats and sports jackets. For those of us who appreciate the aesthetic and engineering of old boats and rigs the many pictures of pilot cutter Sea Breeze, on deck and under sail, were equally fascinating. We admired the massive mainsheet buffers, the boom reefing ratchet gear, the cut of the sails, the jury tiller brought into service after ice had broken the original, the sistered gaff ….
Memorable also were the pictures of Sea Breeze "being watered" (harvesting potable water from ice); Sea Breeze tethered to icebergs; and the provisioning manifest for one of the voyages, including as it did nearly 100 tins of corned beef, 2lb of curry powder, several cases of whiskey, rum and gin, and a dozen loo rolls.
Bob said it was a testament to Kodak that the colour film of the 70's had worked so well and lasted so well. I wouldn't disagree, but more importantly Bob is an extremely accomplished photographer, and that is what really counts (go to his site to see some examples)!
Bob runs a website dedicated to the topic of this talk.
Paul Heiney, well known sailor, broadcaster and author, was the draw to our February meeting. Over 50 CNYC members came along to hear him, to talk boats and boating, and enjoy a good meal. It was a very convivial evening and we have had lots of positive feedback. All in all a very good start to our 2014 programme.
The Cotswold Club did us proud and many remarked on the quality of the food; and on the very professional AV support we now give to presenters – thanks to Hugh Woodsend.
Duncan, our Commodore, heralded an initiative to share members' contact details. He explained that we are working out how best to do this, as we review and revise the website, and will be mailing each member individually with details and to ask whether they would like to participate, as he very much hoped they will. Duncan also thanked Barnaby Scott for the excellent work he has been doing, largely behind the scenes, on the website.
Next meeting is on 26th March: Bob Comlay on Travels with Tilman
Here is an account of Paul's talk:
Paul Heiney delivered a colourful, and wonderfully laid back, account of his voyage across the southern Atlantic and round Cape Horn. He was laid back as only an extremely experienced sailor, and an experienced presenter, can be.
Paul did much of the 18,000-mile voyage single-handed, and claimed that the outward leg towards South America "could have been sailed in a Mirror". This may have slightly over-stated the ease of those long hours in the Atlantic swells, but we got the message. He told us it doesn't much matter what boat you have for such a trip, and did very few modifications to his boat Wild Song – a Chuck Paine designed Victoria 38. Paul crossed paths with others sailors, far from home, in very modest craft – including a Westerly Centaur.
Scoring the places he stopped at on a ten-point scale (some places would have scored a lot better if their marina charges had been less outrageous) Paul talked us through the voyage, through the Roaring Forties, down to the Horn and back. I for one confess that I had not realised that Cape Horn is actually an island – so one can, as Paul did, sail round it and return across the same ocean.
Adventures included running out of diesel, a shredded mainsail, and, at one critical point with no electric power either, getting help by calling Falmouth coastguard, who in turn alerted the Azores coastguard. They rang back almost immediately. Paul told them he was OK for the night, but a boat was sent out the next morning to give him a short tow to safety.
Paul neither dramatized his account nor regaled us with the problems he faced on this voyage. Boredom, he said, was perhaps the most difficult thing to deal with. Luckily he loves cooking (or is it food?) and part of his solution is to cook labour-intensive dishes. Fresh bread, and the peeling of potatoes are, apparently, ideal balm for a bored soul.
Paul is of the view that a journey is not emotionally complete until one has returned to its starting point. His port of return was not, alas, his port of departure; but as luck would have it he had called at a supermarket to stock up on the way out, and realised, back at the same supermarket there, after the trip, that his 18,000-mile voyage was now properly ended, in a supermarket aisle.
All in all a fascinating and engrossing account. Questions from the floor were many, varied, and telling. I am happy to report that no-one from our audience asked him whether, in the context of keeping an adequate watch as a single-hander crossing an ocean (always a controversial point), he always put in somewhere for the night. He mentioned he had been asked that vexing question, at some other yacht club gathering.
We have a rich and varied programme for 2014 – there will be talks by well-known external speakers, as before, plus more this year from our own members. Another quiz, a summer BBQ, and a brewery tour are also being planned.
We start the year with a talk by Paul Heiney, on 26th February, whose book The Last Man Across the Atlantic will be known to many of you. Members – if you want to come along please book your place here. Non-members – why not consider joining!
Membership renewals are now due for 2014. Please see "Notices to Members" in the Members Area for details.
CNYC held its first AGM on Wednesday 28th. January at the Cotswold Club.
Trevor and Jo, who had worked so tirelessly to establish the club during 2013, had stepped down, and Duncan Wheatley thanked them and the other officers, on behalf of us all, for getting us off the pontoon so very successfully.
Trevor said he'd stressed that he wanted no fuss on his departure but we could not let them go without some form of ceremony.
There were a number of other changes on the bridge, and the following were voted in to form the new Committee:
The business part of the meeting over, we moved on to hear presentations from four club members, three talking about their exploits on the water last year (in one case the last decade and a bit) and one telling us about his ambitious plans for the next boat.
We also heard from Frances who is having a bit of a clear-out now she and James are retiring from active sailing. She mentioned in particular a 100 channel, 10-100 watts, KENWOOD TS-50S HF Transceiver (operating on ham & marine frequencies), with matching KENWOOD AT-50 Automatic Antenna Tuner, modem and other bits and pieces. If you are interested do take a look here and get in touch with James or her!
Holly Jones' talked us through her adventurous voyage along the Norwegian seaboard to the land of the midnight sun, above the Arctic Circle. She shared pictures of craggy fjords, tranquil villages, dried cod, and, of course, that sun at midnight.
For those that missed it, here are some of the evocative photographs she shared with us, and a plan of the route she took.
The talk was entitled "Seventy at Seventy" for reasons a gentleman with any manners could not begin to guess at.
We very much look forward to her next talk, after she returns from a Pacific trip later this year.
Holly told us she has been given a new camera, and promised us lots and lots of photos!
Next up was Barnaby Scott, a local furniture designer and maker who is also a Fellow of the Society of Designer Craftsmen. He sails Scottish waters in and around estuaries and creeks, many of which are shallow and dry out, so has particular requirements that no stock boat quite meets.
His current and very pretty strip-epoxy pocket gaff yawl (a Willow Bay Shilling) looks a picture parked on the sand, but at 17 feet on deck she has her limitations, especially in terms of accommodation. Barnaby's checklist for the right boat led him to a 30 foot sharpie design by Iain Oughtred, the Haiku, which is a modern interpretation of Ralph Munroe's legendary Long Island inspired sharpie, Egret. One Haiku has been built in the UK so far.
When it comes to building a boat Barnaby has several weapons up his sleeve: an ability to create a detailed 3D computer model of the design (which he's already done), and some state-of-the-art computer-controlled wood machining kit (a "CNC" machine)….
As well us showing us a few pictures of the planned boat, Barnaby fired up the software model and took us, virtually, through the build, and then inside the boat – quite fascinating. We were delighted to have helped him make the public commitment he now has, to this fascinating project. There's no going back now, Barnaby.
Phil Levermore left Plymouth in 2000 and sailed his Scanmar 345 "Scandal" to practically every location you think of in the Mediterranean over the next 14 (yes, that's 14!) years.
He was first, during 2013, to make use of CNYC Crewing Service, and had the honour of having our newly-elected Commodore, Duncan, as crew as a result.
Last year's sailing excitements included hard-drinking Russians in neighbouring marina berths, the failing of the elderly Volvo Penta, and the insatiable appetite of one of his crew members – whose orders the waiter assumed were for the whole table, rather than for just one hungry crewman….
Chris Adams has told us before about the joys of sailing Scottish waters. The midges ("not as big as you think", he insists); the storms ("hardly ever", he claims); the rain ("only sometimes"); the rocks ("they just add to the fun"); the racing tides (they "just help you along"). He is quite an enthusiast for these waters (!) and has been heard to say "there's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing" a quote variously attributed to Ranulph Fiennes (properly Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet, OBE); Alfred Wainright and Billy Connolly….
In this talk he took us through his end-of-season Western Isle cruise – northwards up the Sound of Mull, stopping at deserted anchorages on Coll, back south'ards around the outside of Mull, inside Colonsay, returning south down the channel between Islay and Jura. It sounded wonderful!
Most memorable, for those of us who choose to sail in the more popular waters of the South Coast, in the Med., or in the Netherlands, is the isolation. Chris showed us photo after photo of an empty bay or beach, occasionally crowded out with a single yacht (his Hallberg-Rassy 342), and occasionally not even by that….
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