NEWS EXPLORER Follow online at: sitesalive.com w w w . s i t e s a l i v e . c o m Follow online at: sitesalive.com Team of Experts • Q&A • Ship’s Log Photos • Podcasts • Videos • Essays Rich has been away from home and family for 4 weeks. Search the news- paper and internet to idenfy news of interest to Rich aboard Great American IV. Write a news digest for him. If you’d like to send Rich a leer of encouragement, email it to [email protected]. At sea, we see great swaths of ocean, and thereby of the planet. Somemes on a long ocean voyage, we may be close to land, but more oſten we are hundreds of miles off any land. In either cir- cumstance, I like to think about the people, the places, the cultures – just over that horizon! In this voyage, we were near Cape Finisterre, and I could see the lights of Spanish towns. On our 2003 voyage Hong Kong to New York, we passed between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia, and could smell the spices of Sumatra. On our San Francisco – Boston voyage in 1993, we saw the lights of Recife, Brazil as we sailed past, and later were covered by dust blown two thousand miles from the Sahara Desert. These were direct connecons to the lands we passed. Yet if there is no such direct connecon, you must use your imaginaon. Who are they just over there? What language do they speak? What religions to they follow? What is their culture like, and their art, literature and music? What is the geography and topography, the polics and the government? It’s a simple and friendly curiosity about our neighbors on the planet. Likely, they are more similar to how we are, than they are different. Likely they too will want a peaceful existence, good health for their families, adequate food and shelter, and a brighter future for their children than they themselves might have had. Just as a huge night sky full of stars lures one to imagine one’s place in the universe, this imagin- ing among mariners about who and what lies just over the horizon, helps us ponder our role and place on earth. By Rich Wilson, Skipper Great American IV The first me that I went to sea on a boat (I was 5 years old), I felt several very strong feelings: entering another world with different colors, a different smell and different sensaons; the impression of travelling on a living being, which moved and smelt very salty. I also felt a certain humility, the impression of a great vulnerability but also the strong desire to discover, to experi- ence and tame this world full of mysteries. The first me that I crossed the Atlanc Ocean, I discovered the immensity of this liquid dessert and I realized that our planet was really very big. We were heading westward, towards America, the days and weeks passed and we sll hadn’t seen land in front of us yet. Life seemed absent: no sea birds or fish and few whales. A solitary and wild world, with no other guide than the stars and so far from man and civilizaon. At night we progress without seeing the land- scape pass-by, the celesal sphere is our only vision and we feel alone in the universe. In the day, the sea is there with the waves, the clouds, the sun and somemes a sea animal or a bird of passage; we can get very close to land without seeing it and that is very frustrang. I remember having come close to the island of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean; the land was roughly twenty miles away and we could smell the slightly spicy odour of its vegetaon, see the coastal clouds and simply sense the pres- ence of this great island, but there was nothing on the horizon, it was as though the Earth was imaginary. The competors in the Vendée Globe Challenge will cover over 24,000 miles, or right round our planet without ever seeing land unless it is a few faraway summits of some isolated island. For three months they will only see millions of cubic metres of salty water that make up the sea and the oceans. In these great desserts of solitude that they will cross, civilizaon will seem very far away to them and everyone, at a given moment, will wonder if mankind sll exists. Is it real? It is in these great liquid desserts that man feels insignificant and vulnerable, and it is there, more than anywhere else, that he must be aware of the need to preserve and protect what is, aſter all, a fragile sphere of life. (Excerpt from full essay, which can be viewed at hp:// vg2016.sites alive.com) By Captain Yann Cariou Captain of the Hermione WEEK 5 INVISIBLE PLACES Next Week: Antarcca Posion: -34.4067, -5.62222 Time: 2016-12-01 08:24:00 UTC NIE 5 COLOR 4.889 x 10.5.indd 1 12/1/2016 7:46:22 AM
Rich has been away from home and family for 4 weeks. Search the news-paper and internet to identify news of interest to Rich aboard Great American IV. Write a news digest for him. If you’d like to send Rich a letter of encouragement, email it to [email protected].
At sea, we see great swaths of ocean, and thereby of the planet. Sometimes on a long ocean voyage, we may be close to land, but more often we
are hundreds of miles off any land. In either cir-cumstance, I like to think about the people, the places, the cultures – just over that horizon!
In this voyage, we were near Cape Finisterre, and I could see the lights of Spanish towns. On our 2003 voyage Hong Kong to New York, we passed between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia, and could smell the spices of Sumatra. On our San Francisco – Boston voyage in 1993, we saw the lights of Recife, Brazil as we sailed past, and later were covered by dust blown two thousand miles from the Sahara Desert. These were direct connections to the lands we passed.
Yet if there is no such direct connection, you must use your imagination. Who are they just over there? What language do they speak? What religions to they follow? What is their culture like, and their art, literature and music? What is the geography and topography, the politics and the government?
It’s a simple and friendly curiosity about our neighbors on the planet. Likely, they are more similar to how we are, than they are different. Likely they too will want a peaceful existence, good health for their families, adequate food and shelter, and a brighter future for their children than they themselves might have had.
Just as a huge night sky full of stars lures one to imagine one’s place in the universe, this imagin-ing among mariners about who and what lies just over the horizon, helps us ponder our role and place on earth.
By Rich Wilson, Skipper Great American IV
The first time that I went to sea on a boat (I was 5 years old), I felt several very strong feelings: entering another world with different colors,
a different smell and different sensations; the impression of travelling on a living being, which moved and smelt very salty. I also felt a certain humility, the impression of a great vulnerability but also the strong desire to discover, to experi-ence and tame this world full of mysteries.
The first time that I crossed the Atlantic Ocean, I discovered the immensity of this liquid dessert and I realized that our planet was really very big. We were heading westward, towards America, the days and weeks passed and we still hadn’t seen land in front of us yet. Life seemed absent: no sea birds or fish and few whales. A solitary and wild world, with no other guide than the stars and so far from man and civilization.
At night we progress without seeing the land-scape pass-by, the celestial sphere is our only vision and we feel alone in the universe.
In the day, the sea is there with the waves, the clouds, the sun and sometimes a sea animal or a bird of passage; we can get very close to land without seeing it and that is very frustrating. I remember having come close to the island of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean; the land was roughly twenty miles away and we could smell the slightly spicy odour of its vegetation, see the coastal clouds and simply sense the pres-
ence of this great island, but there was nothing on the horizon, it was as though the Earth was imaginary.
The competitors in the Vendée Globe Challenge will cover over 24,000 miles, or right round our planet without ever seeing land unless it is a few faraway summits of some isolated island. For three months they will only see millions of cubic metres of salty water that make up the sea and the oceans. In these great desserts of solitude that they will cross, civilization will seem very far away to them and everyone, at a given moment, will wonder if mankind still exists. Is it real? It is in these great liquid desserts that man feels insignificant and vulnerable, and it is there, more than anywhere else, that he must be aware of the need to preserve and protect what is, after all, a fragile sphere of life.
(Excerpt from full essay, which can be viewed at http://vg2016.sites alive.com)
By Captain Yann CariouCaptain of the Hermione
WEEK
5INVISIBLE PLACES
Next Week:Antarctica
Position: -34.4067, -5.62222Time: 2016-12-01 08:24:00 UTC
NIE 5 COLOR 4.889 x 10.5.indd 1 12/1/2016 7:46:22 AM
At sea, we see great swaths of ocean, and thereby of the planet. Sometimes on a long ocean voy-age, we may be close to land, but more often we are hundreds of miles off any land. In either
circumstance, I like to think about the people, the places, the cultures – just over that horizon!
In this voyage, we were near Cape Finisterre, and I could see the lights of Spanish towns. On our 2003 voyage Hong Kong to New York, we passed between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia, and could smell the spices of Sumatra. On our San Francisco – Boston voyage in 1993, we saw the lights of Recife, Brazil as we sailed past, and later were covered by dust blown two thousand miles from the Sahara Desert. These were direct connections to the lands we passed.
Yet if there is no such direct connection, you must use your imagination. Who are they just over there? What language do they speak? What religions to they follow? What is their culture like, and their art, literature and music? What is the geography and topography, the politics and the government?
It’s a simple and friendly curiosity about our neigh-bors on the planet. Likely, they are more similar to how we are, than they are different. Likely they too will want a peaceful existence, good health for their families, adequate food and shelter, and a brighter future for their children than they themselves might have had.
Just as a huge night sky full of stars lures one to imag-ine one’s place in the universe, this imagining among mariners about who and what lies just over the hori-zon, helps us ponder our role and place on earth.
By Captain Yann CariouCaptain of the HermioneThe first time that I went to sea on a boat (I was 5 years old), I felt several very strong feelings: entering another world with different colors, a different smell and different sensa-tions; the impression of travelling on a living being, which moved and smelt very salty. I also felt a certain
humility, the impression of a great vulnerability but also the strong desire to discover, to experience and tame this world full of mysteries.
The first time that I crossed the Atlantic Ocean, I discov-ered the immensity of this liquid dessert and I realized that our planet was really very big. We were heading westward, towards America, the days and weeks passed and we still hadn’t seen land in front of us yet. Life seemed absent: no sea birds or fish and few whales. A solitary and wild world, with no other guide than the stars and so far from man and civilization.
At night we progress without seeing the landscape pass-by, the celestial sphere is our only vision and we feel alone in the universe.
In the day, the sea is there with the waves, the clouds, the sun and sometimes a sea animal or a bird of passage; we can get very close to land without seeing it and that is very frustrating. I remember having come close to the island of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean; the land was roughly twenty miles away and we could smell the slightly spicy odour of its vegetation, see the coastal clouds and simply sense the presence of this great island, but there
was nothing on the horizon, it was as though the Earth was imaginary.
The competitors in the Vendée Globe Challenge will cover over 24,000 miles, or right round our planet without ever seeing land unless it is a few faraway summits of some isolated island. For three months they will only see mil-lions of cubic metres of salty water that make up the sea and the oceans. In these great desserts of solitude that they will cross, civilization will seem very far away to them and everyone, at a given moment, will wonder if mankind still exists. Is it real? It is in these great liquid desserts that man feels insignificant and vulnerable, and it is there, more than anywhere else, that he must be aware of the need to preserve and protect what is, after all, a fragile
sphere of life.
(Excerpt from full essay, which can be viewed at http://vg2016.sitesalive.com)
WEEK
5INVISIBLE PLACES
Rich has been away from home and family for 4 weeks. Search the newspaper and internet to identify news of interest to Rich aboard Great American IV. Write a news digest for him. If you’d like to send Rich a letter of encourage-ment, email it to [email protected].
Position: -34.4067, -5.62222Time: 2016-12-01 08:24:00 UTC
NIE 5 COLOR 5.75 x 10.indd 1 12/1/2016 7:45:35 AM
NEWS EXPLORERRich has been away from home and fam-ily for 4 weeks. Search the newspaper and internet to identify news of interest to Rich aboard Great American IV. Write a news digest for him. If you’d like to send Rich a letter of encouragement, email it to [email protected].
At sea, we see great swaths of ocean, and thereby of the planet. Sometimes on a long ocean voyage, we may be close to land, but more often
we are hundreds of miles off any land. In either circumstance, I like to think about the people, the places, the cultures – just over that horizon!
In this voyage, we were near Cape Finisterre, and I could see the lights of Spanish towns. On our 2003 voyage Hong Kong to New York, we passed between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia, and could smell the spices of Sumatra. On our San Francisco – Boston voyage in 1993, we saw the lights of Recife, Brazil as we sailed past, and later were covered by dust blown two thousand miles from the Sahara Desert. These were direct con-nections to the lands we passed.
Yet if there is no such direct connection, you must use your imagination. Who are they just over there? What language do they speak? What religions to they follow? What is their culture like, and their art, literature and music? What is the geography and topography, the politics and the government?
It’s a simple and friendly curiosity about our neighbors on the planet. Likely, they are more similar to how we are, than they are different. Likely they too will want a peaceful existence, good health for their families, adequate food and shelter, and a brighter future for their children than they themselves might have had.
Just as a huge night sky full of stars lures one to imagine one’s place in the universe, this imagin-ing among mariners about who and what lies just over the horizon, helps us ponder our role and place on earth.
By Rich Wilson, Skipper Great American IV
The first time that I went to sea on a boat (I was 5 years old), I felt several very strong feelings: enter-ing another world with different colours, a different smell and different sensations; the impres-sion of travelling on a living being,
which moved and smelt very salty. I also felt a certain humility, the impression of a great vulnerability but also the strong desire to discover, to experience and tame this world full of mysteries.
The first time that I crossed the Atlantic Ocean, I discovered the immensity of this liquid dessert and I realized that our planet was really very big. We were heading westward, towards America, the days and weeks passed and we still hadn’t seen land in front of us yet. Life seemed absent: no sea birds or fish and few whales. A solitary and wild world, with no other guide than the stars and so far from man and civiliza-tion.
At night we progress without seeing the landscape pass-by, the celestial sphere is our only vision and we feel alone in the universe.
In the day, the sea is there with the waves, the clouds, the sun and sometimes a sea animal or a bird of pas-sage; we can get very close to land without seeing it and that is very frustrating. I remember having come close to the island of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean; the land was roughly twenty miles away and we could smell the slightly spicy odor of its vegetation, see the coastal clouds and simply sense the presence of this
great island, but there was nothing on the horizon, it was as though the Earth was imaginary.
The competitors in the Vendée Globe Challenge will cover over 24,000 miles, or right round our planet without ever seeing land unless it is a few faraway summits of some isolated island. For three months they will only see millions of cubic metres of salty water that make up the sea and the oceans. In these great desserts of solitude that they will cross, civiliza-tion will seem very far away to them and everyone, at a given moment, will wonder if mankind still exists. Is it real? It is in these great liquid desserts that man feels insignificant and vulnerable, and it is there, more than anywhere else, that he must be aware of the need to preserve and protect what is, after all, a frag-
ile sphere of life.
(Excerpt from full essay, which can be viewed at http://vg2016.sitesalive.com)
Rich has been away from home and fam-ily for 4 weeks. Search the newspaper and internet to identify news of interest to Rich aboard Great American IV. Write a news digest for him. If you’d like to send Rich a letter of encouragement, email it to [email protected].
At sea, we see great swaths of ocean, and thereby of the planet. Sometimes on a long ocean voyage, we may be close to land, but more often we are hundreds of miles off any land.
In either circumstance, I like to think about the people, the places, the cultures – just over that horizon!
In this voyage, we were near Cape Finisterre, and I could see the lights of Spanish towns. On our 2003 voyage Hong Kong to New York, we passed between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia, and could smell the spices of Sumatra. On our San Francisco – Boston voyage in 1993, we saw the lights of Recife, Brazil as we sailed past, and later were covered by dust blown two thousand miles from the Sahara Desert. These were direct connections to the lands we passed.
Yet if there is no such direct connection, you must use your imagination. Who are they just over there? What language do they speak? What religions to they follow? What is their culture like, and their art, literature and music? What is the geography and topography, the politics and the government?
It’s a simple and friendly curiosity about our neighbors on the planet. Likely, they are more similar to how we are, than they are different. Likely they too will want a peaceful existence, good health for their families, adequate food and shelter, and a brighter future for their children than they themselves might have had.
Just as a huge night sky full of stars lures one to imagine one’s place in the universe, this imagin-ing among mariners about who and what lies just over the horizon, helps us ponder our role and place on earth.
By Rich Wilson, Skipper Great American IV
The first time that I went to sea on a boat (I was 5 years old), I felt several very strong feelings: entering another world with different colors, a different smell and different sensations; the im-
pression of travelling on a living being, which moved and smelt very salty. I also felt a certain humility, the impression of a great vulnerability but also the strong desire to discover, to experience and tame this world full of mysteries.
The first time that I crossed the Atlantic Ocean, I discovered the immensity of this liquid dessert and I realized that our planet was really very big. We were heading westward, towards America, the days and weeks passed and we still hadn’t seen land in front of us yet. Life seemed absent: no sea birds or fish and few whales. A solitary and wild world, with no other guide than the stars and so far from man and civilization.
At night we progress without seeing the landscape pass-by, the celestial sphere is our only vision and we feel alone in the universe.
In the day, the sea is there with the waves, the clouds, the sun and sometimes a sea animal or a bird of passage; we can get very close to land with-out seeing it and that is very frustrating. I remember having come close to the island of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean; the land was roughly twenty miles away and we could smell the slightly spicy odor of its vegetation, see the coastal clouds and simply
sense the presence of this great island, but there was nothing on the horizon, it was as though the Earth was imaginary.
The competitors in the Vendée Globe Challenge will cover over 24,000 miles, or right round our planet without ever seeing land unless it is a few faraway summits of some isolated island. For three months they will only see millions of cubic metres of salty water that make up the sea and the oceans. In these great desserts of solitude that they will cross, civilization will seem very far away to them and everyone, at a given moment, will wonder if man-kind still exists. Is it real? It is in these great liquid desserts that man feels insignificant and vulnerable, and it is there, more than anywhere else, that he must be aware of the need to preserve and protect what is, after all, a fragile sphere of life.
(Excerpt from full essay, which can be viewed at http://vg2016.sitesalive.com)
By Captain Yann CariouCaptain of the Hermione
Next Week:AntarcticaWEEK
5INVISIBLE PLACES Position:
-34.4067, -5.62222Time: 2016-12-01 08:24:00 UTC
NIE 5 COLOR 4.889 x 9.75.indd 1 12/1/2016 7:46:47 AM
