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Some boating history follows below. Meanwhile, above, a light and shadow study done indoors with my iPhone:
After five wonderful years (2009-2014) of cruising full-time, covering a combined 25,000 nautical miles on our two Aries Toos (see photos below) from the Gulf of St Lawrence to Trinidad, Linda and I are back in NYC, enjoying our "re-entry" to the delights of New York City (constrained since 2020 by COVID-19), our apartment, being closer to friends and family, and traveling, until recently, to parts of the world not accessible by sea.
Those destinations, aside from travel within North America, have included Southeast Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam), France multiple times (including Corsica), Argentina and Antarctica, Morocco and Iceland (see respective Antarctica, Morocco, and Iceland tabs). In January 2019, I went to Venice for a highly rewarding B&W photography workshop (see Venice tab). In May/June, I' went on a 2-week trip with my brother, Bruce, through the Baltic states and neighboring countries - we called it the “Bro-dyssey”. In 2019 Linda and I spent 12 days on a scuba dive boat, the “Mutiara Laut”, in Rajah Ampat (Indonesia). It was absolutely fabulous. The area is considered an epicenter of earth's marine life, with more species of fish, soft coral, etc. than anywhere else on the globe - and one of the few still pristine "must dive" locations we had not yet been to. We spent another week in Java, including a visit to Jogjakarta and the nearby Borobodur Temple complex. In 2020 and 2021 due COVID-19 we stayed in the US and bareboat chartered in Maine. We loved the anchorages and freedom of responsibility for the vessel. We’ll just have to wait and see when foreign travel becomes viable agian - and then likely do another African safari and trip to southern India. Meanwhile, we bareboat chartered a canal boat in Burgundy in 2022 as well as a coastal cruiser in 2023, exploring Croatia’s Dalmation coast. Our 2023 land visits have included more visits to Paris as well as more than a month exploring Portugal and Spain by car.
I have been focusing on photography - see various tabs. Linda is engaged in projects to increase awareness of unconscious bias and also to support women running for office. She became very involved in Toastmasters, including as Area Director of 5 clubs in Manhattan and earning the coveted status of “Distinguished Toastmaster”. She has also spent more than a year developing an improved technology platform and processes for Stanford GSB’s “Stanford Women on Boards”, an organization dedicated to matching Stanford alumna to corporate board positions. More recently (2023) she has joined a group of prominent women to develop and implement a strategies to identify and utilize external levers (“pressure points”) that can be applied to public corporations to improve gender equity at the highest management, exective and board levels.
Bibi and Sabi, after more than three years growing up at sea on our two ARIES TOOs, are now happily into their 10th year as landlubbers.
Those destinations, aside from travel within North America, have included Southeast Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam), France multiple times (including Corsica), Argentina and Antarctica, Morocco and Iceland (see respective Antarctica, Morocco, and Iceland tabs). In January 2019, I went to Venice for a highly rewarding B&W photography workshop (see Venice tab). In May/June, I' went on a 2-week trip with my brother, Bruce, through the Baltic states and neighboring countries - we called it the “Bro-dyssey”. In 2019 Linda and I spent 12 days on a scuba dive boat, the “Mutiara Laut”, in Rajah Ampat (Indonesia). It was absolutely fabulous. The area is considered an epicenter of earth's marine life, with more species of fish, soft coral, etc. than anywhere else on the globe - and one of the few still pristine "must dive" locations we had not yet been to. We spent another week in Java, including a visit to Jogjakarta and the nearby Borobodur Temple complex. In 2020 and 2021 due COVID-19 we stayed in the US and bareboat chartered in Maine. We loved the anchorages and freedom of responsibility for the vessel. We’ll just have to wait and see when foreign travel becomes viable agian - and then likely do another African safari and trip to southern India. Meanwhile, we bareboat chartered a canal boat in Burgundy in 2022 as well as a coastal cruiser in 2023, exploring Croatia’s Dalmation coast. Our 2023 land visits have included more visits to Paris as well as more than a month exploring Portugal and Spain by car.
I have been focusing on photography - see various tabs. Linda is engaged in projects to increase awareness of unconscious bias and also to support women running for office. She became very involved in Toastmasters, including as Area Director of 5 clubs in Manhattan and earning the coveted status of “Distinguished Toastmaster”. She has also spent more than a year developing an improved technology platform and processes for Stanford GSB’s “Stanford Women on Boards”, an organization dedicated to matching Stanford alumna to corporate board positions. More recently (2023) she has joined a group of prominent women to develop and implement a strategies to identify and utilize external levers (“pressure points”) that can be applied to public corporations to improve gender equity at the highest management, exective and board levels.
Bibi and Sabi, after more than three years growing up at sea on our two ARIES TOOs, are now happily into their 10th year as landlubbers.
ARIES TOO "One" (Krogen Express 53) at Anchor in South Carolina
ARIES TOO "Two" (Nordhavn 55) in the Chesapeake
Our furry landlubbers - Bibi ("Habibi") and Sabi ("Wabi Sabi")