French sailor, 73, wins round-the-world solo-race without modern instruments | Sport | The Guardian

Fifty years ago Robin Knox Johnston was the first solo non-stop round the world sailor.  Triumphant in the first such race - the golden Globe - he became a legend.  This week he greeted Jean Luc van den Heede who matched the feat: sailing non stop, single handed - no outside assistance - using 1969's equipment: sextant, paper charts, and shortwave radio!  Five of the nineteen starters are still at sea.

French sailor, 73, wins round-the-world solo-race without modern instruments | Sport | The Guardian: A 73-year-old French sailor has won an unusual, around-the-world yacht race after 212 days alone at sea without modern instruments, in what was his first sailing victory.

82 foot wave

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Barges break loose on upper Hudson River

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Mary Oliver, Prize-Winning Poet of the Natural World, Dies at 83 - The New York Times

To live in this world



you must be able

to do three things:

to love what is mortal;

to hold it



against your bones knowing

your own life depends on it;

and, when the time comes to let it

go,

to let it go.

  

Mary Oliver

In Blackwater Woods

Mary Oliver, Prize-Winning Poet of the Natural World, Dies at 83 - The New York Times: With its plain language and minute attention to flora and fauna, her uplifting verse was widely popular and her readings drew throngs. But critics were divided.

Paul Cayard in Antarctica

https://cayardsailing.com/antartica/

Tidal Wave

When the tide runs out on the Back River it leaves a crust of ice.  When the tide returns you can see the tidal wave as the water rises up hill to our spot.  We are four or five feet above sea level so we get only a 6 foot high tide, rather than the 11 foot downstream.  You can see the tidal wave slipping in over the  frozen river bed. -gwc

The leading edge of the tidal wave which reaches us at half tide.
Three hours later the water will be six feet deep.  The river goes from a 1 foot wide
rivulet at low tide to fifty yards wide at high tide.

Susie Goodall rescued in southern ocean ~ Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/dec/07/solo-yachtswoman-awaits-cargo-ship-rescue-amid-poor-weather

In Friendship with Peter & Norma

Owls Head Light State Park

Hamiet Bluiett, Baritone Saxophone Trailblazer, Dies at 78 - The New York Times

Hamiet Bluiett, Baritone Saxophone Trailblazer, Dies at 78 - The New York Times

By Giovanni Russonello

• Oct. 7, 2018

Hamiet Bluiett, a baritone saxophonist who expanded the possibilities of his instrument while connecting the jazz avant-garde with a broad view of its own history, died on Thursday at his home in Brooklyn, Ill. He was 78.

His granddaughter Anaya Bluiett said that the cause had not yet been determined but that his health had deteriorated in recent years after a series of strokes and seizures.

A central figure in jazz, primarily as a member of the renowned World Saxophone Quartet, Mr. Bluiett (whose name is pronounced HAM-ee-et BLUE-it) married a dazzling physical command of the instrument with a passion for the full scope of the blues tradition. With an astonishing five-octave range, he could leap into registers that had been thought inaccessible on the baritone.

“Most people who play the baritone don’t approach it like the awesome instrument that it is,” Mr. Bluiett said in an interview with jazzweekly.com in 2000. “They approach it as if it is something docile, like a servant-type instrument. I don’t approach it that way. I approach it as if it was a lead voice, and not necessarily here to uphold the altos, tenors and sopranos.”