Matthew Rhys Hits the Seas - The New York Times

Matthew Rhys Hits the Seas - The New York Times

By Gabrielle Bluestone

• Oct. 4, 2021, 11:06 a.m. ET
  
  Matthew Rhys never planned on buying an old wooden boat that would take four years, tens of thousands of dollars and quite a bit of his own manual labor to restore. But one night he was drinking whiskey and clicking through eBay, and, well, one thing led to another.
  
  Asked if there had been a bidding war for his 1930s Wheeler Playmate — Ernest Hemingway famously owned one — Mr. Rhys laughed so hard that he did an actual spit take.
  
  “No, and I’ll tell you very simply why. Because anyone who knows boats won’t go near a wooden boat,” he said. “And the people who I knew who do have boats, when I said, ‘I’ve bought a wooden boat,’ would say, ‘What? You idiot.’”
  
  But Mr. Rhys and his partner, the actress Keri Russell, happen to enjoy chartering wooden boats. They even celebrated Ms. Russell’s 40th birthday aboard one. Mr. Rhys is also a big fan of the 1930s — he’s currently playing the era’s most famous attorney, Perry Mason, on HBO — as well as of Mr. Hemingway. (Mr. Rhys also loves Hemingway puns: He named his charter company Moveable Feast NYC, and its website asks, “For whom the boat tours?”)
  

Issuma - in the eye of the storm

So when you are a real voyager you come prepared for The Eye of the Storm.

In this case it was Hurricane Larry which was becoming a post-tropical  cyclone as it hit Newfoundland.

Richard Hudson and Issuma were waiting for the waning hurricane in Little Bay, Marystown, NFL.

In circumstances like this being tied up to a dock presents its own risks: like the surge carrying you over the wharf, or the wind smashing you against the wharf.  That's when having on hand 200 meters of line of the right gage to tie you off to a rock on the other side of the cove is just the right thing.