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Ocean Tramp – Lori – Who is Onboard?
Our Crew = Captain Damian, Niall, Lucy & Caesar.
Our Passengers: On this boat, the emphasis is on photography, but we all come to it differently. Passengers Claudia and Justo (Uruguay) are well-versed in the world of professional sailing, John (Carlsbad, CA), with a background in IT (and our Man of Maps) and Lori, full-time photographic artist and writer. (John and Lori met on a similar kind of trip, in Greenland.) Michael Melford is our professional photo lead on this trip.
Life on board ship is truly “a place for everything, and everything in its place”. You find that out very quickly, as things rock ‘n’ roll their way off the tables, onto the floors. Cleverly disguised cupboards under seats, floorboards, beds.
We have had our introductions, to each other, and to the rhythm of life on board. You swiftly determine who needs coffee, and who isn’t a morning person!
First day is done. Two trips by zodiac to land. The in and out procedures of a zodiac, to the shore and back to the sailboat, are another set of protocols to learn. Our morning outing was to Yankee Harbour (where we had moored overnight), filled with Gentoo penguins and moulting seals. A couple of good photo hours on land, and a chance for the crew to get in some walking time on land.
Four-ish hours at sea, through the exquisitely beautiful scenery of the Bransfield passage. If Hollywood had asked for a set design of “a beautiful day in the Antarctic Peninsula”, they would have used that design. Sea was too rough to pull in to Baily Head, home to hundreds of thousands of chinstrap penguins, and some of the most extraordinary examples of “penguin highways”, but binoculars are a beautiful thing. We ended the day moored in Whaler’s Bay, with a trip to shore to photograph the remnants of a previously very active whaling community. Leftover buildings, whale “silos”, the hollow bones of old whaling boats.
Day 2 will be a long day at sea, under sail. Patience and watches are the order of the day.
Blog: Lori Ryerson
Photo: Niall doing some fine trimming onboard. Taken by: Jon Evarts
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