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I get stoned by these colours!

Fantastic and a real statement! :yep:

https://afremov.com/Deal-of-the-Day/...s-vyo#pageId=1

You can open every offer, and then zoom into every painting.

Or here, sorted by categories:
https://afremov.com/de/paintings-cre...fremov-studio/

https://i.imgur.com/jqbYozH.jpg

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The moment that you first lose sight of land and are alone with your boat, surrounded by nothing but sea and sky, is a powerful experience for any sailor and one that cannot be truly described until it is experienced. As anyone who has reached that moment will tell you, it is not something to be undertaken lightly, even if you are only traveling port to port. Any sailing excursion requires planning and attention to safety, but ocean sailing requires a great deal more thought and preparation. You have to take what you need from land with you, plan for the unexpected, and be prepared for all sorts of setbacks.

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Originally Posted by Skybird (Post 2688091)

Thank you! :)

You can't talk about sailing without the mention of Vito Dumas, circumnavigator of the world in WWII (twice).

When he got through the first time the war ws still going on so he did the same trip in reverse.

"Lucky are those that can escape the dreariness of everyday life"
"How many reach the end without ever having lived"
Vito Dumas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Dumas

On 27 June 1942, while the world was in the depths of World War II, he set out on a single-handed circumnavigation of the Southern Ocean. He left Buenos Aires in June, sailing LEHG II, a 31-foot ketch an acronym representing "four names which marked my life". He had only the most basic and makeshift gear; he had no radio, for fear of being shot as a spy, and was forced to stuff his clothes with newspaper to keep warm.

With only three landfalls, the legs of his trip were the longest that had been made by a single-hander, and in the most ferocious oceans on the Earth; but most of all, it was a powerful retort to a world which had chosen to divide itself by war. He recounted the experience in his book Los Cuarenta Bramadores: La Vuelta al Mundo Por la "Ruta Imposible" (Alone Through The Roaring Forties).

He donated his boat to the Argentine Navy for training, but after a few years it was neglected, and was finally wrecked against a pier at the entrance of La Plata's port in 1966.

A wealthy Argentine yachtsman paid to have it restored and donated it to the Argentina Naval Museum in Tigre, a coastal river town on a backwater of the River Plate.

The LEHG II is now on display in Tigre, which is a short train ride from Buenos Aires.

http://magiaenelcamino.com.ar/wp-con...tadellehg2.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...ature=emb_logo

English subtitles

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Originally Posted by Skybird (Post 2688074)

Not before now I learned of his death, last August, it seems?! :o

Dont know where I learned about him, somewhere online.It was one painting that immediately reminded me of a fire and candle lit garden landscape at midnight from a dream I once had and remembered for long time, because I loved it so, and felt so paradisically happy and completeley arrived in it. If I would give an idea of what afterlife should feel like, that dream would be it, and if I would be certain that death is like that scene, I would not be around here anymore since many years. That painting incredibly directly connected to me, like being struck by lightning. It was a revelation. I do not have it, unfortunately, also not the title. Searching for it again later on led me to collecting many downloads of his paintings from across the web, like those above, but the one I looked up I never foud again. Thos edownloaded images I have by the dozens.

Quite poetic a story, in a way, isn'T it. :)

What you tell can in many ways be a realization that only you experience once in a lifetime ... a bit like the first love many had in early years.

The boat of my dreams; a beautiful ketch

^ ^very nice photos and stories!

The mediterranean sea is beautiful, surrounded by interesting and nice places (some not quite as nice, as in the Levante.. like recently near Beirut :03:).
I have mixed feelings when it comes to sailing there, it can be beautiful, and like in the baltic you do not have to take tides into account, but if unlucky you can have dead calms for days or weeks (summer) or you can have the most violent storms. Not that we did not also have the latter in the baltic, but the "wine-dark seas" of the med (hello Aktung) are a bit special as we found out.
It is better to prepare every day and thoroughly look for the weather forecasts, when you are the skipper i found the responsibility takes a bit away from the fun ..

https://i.imgur.com/hUDGlE2.jpg

The Captain of the Queen Mary Two.

I want to go sailing and fishing at the same time :yep:

Diesel Duck 462 Sedan

http://boatwizardwebsolutions.com/~w.../sedanmain.jpg

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Originally Posted by captainadccdacaptain (Post 2688316)

The boat of my dreams; a beautiful ketch

such dreams are often 'ketch as ketchcan'!!:Kaleun_Salivating: