wrack
@ccohanlon.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck.
https://ccohanlon.tumblr.com/about
"So here is us, on the raggedy edge."
– from the film Serenity (2005)
#nobots
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://merveilles.town/@ccohanlon, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
https://ccohanlon.tumblr.com/about
"So here is us, on the raggedy edge."
– from the film Serenity (2005)
#nobots
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://merveilles.town/@ccohanlon, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Anton Newcombe, leader of the The Brian Jonestown Massacre, was one of my more unlikely acquaintances in Berlin. His recording studio was just a few blocks from my apartment, north-west of Nordbahnhof, where affluent Mitte began to meld with the predominantly […]
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November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Anton Newcombe, leader of the The Brian Jonestown Massacre, was one of my more unlikely acquaintances in Berlin. His recording studio was just a few blocks from my apartment, north-west of Nordbahnhof, where affluent Mitte began to meld with the predominantly […]
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[Original post on merveilles.town]
My favorite non-fiction book, Kenneth Brower’s The Starship And The Canoe (1978), is a memoir of time spent with both Dysons, juxtaposing Freeman's dreams of manned rockets to the edge of our galaxy with George's ambitious voyages in fragile, traditional […]
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November 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
My favorite non-fiction book, Kenneth Brower’s The Starship And The Canoe (1978), is a memoir of time spent with both Dysons, juxtaposing Freeman's dreams of manned rockets to the edge of our galaxy with George's ambitious voyages in fragile, traditional […]
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[Original post on merveilles.town]
A good friend, Peter Stridh, is sailing 40 nautical miles from the Gulf of Teulada, in south-western Sardinia to join my wife and me in the port of Cagliari. He is, like us, a vagabond – a Swedish-born surfer, permaculturalist, and artist, who took to the sea […]
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[Original post on merveilles.town]
November 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
A good friend, Peter Stridh, is sailing 40 nautical miles from the Gulf of Teulada, in south-western Sardinia to join my wife and me in the port of Cagliari. He is, like us, a vagabond – a Swedish-born surfer, permaculturalist, and artist, who took to the sea […]
[Original post on merveilles.town]
[Original post on merveilles.town]
The first works of my month-long guest editorship of Burning House Press (UK) have just been uploaded. New works will be added every couple of days until the end of this month:
Submissions around my loose theme of Journeys are open for one more week.
https://burninghousepress.com/
Submissions around my loose theme of Journeys are open for one more week.
https://burninghousepress.com/
November 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The first works of my month-long guest editorship of Burning House Press (UK) have just been uploaded. New works will be added every couple of days until the end of this month:
Submissions around my loose theme of Journeys are open for one more week.
https://burninghousepress.com/
Submissions around my loose theme of Journeys are open for one more week.
https://burninghousepress.com/
"...with winter looming, and assuming successful outcomes of further cardiology (for both Given and me) in Rome, we will likely begin a fourth year aboard Wrack, ignoring the challenges of an old age without any assets and sustained income, and waning […]
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[Original post on merveilles.town]
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
"...with winter looming, and assuming successful outcomes of further cardiology (for both Given and me) in Rome, we will likely begin a fourth year aboard Wrack, ignoring the challenges of an old age without any assets and sustained income, and waning […]
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[Original post on merveilles.town]
One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, “What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?”
Rachel Carson, from The Sense of Wonder, 1965
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Just before the first time I ever crossed an ocean under sail, I had to fly […]
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Rachel Carson, from The Sense of Wonder, 1965
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Just before the first time I ever crossed an ocean under sail, I had to fly […]
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November 14, 2025 at 7:21 AM
One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, “What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?”
Rachel Carson, from The Sense of Wonder, 1965
*
Just before the first time I ever crossed an ocean under sail, I had to fly […]
[Original post on merveilles.town]
Rachel Carson, from The Sense of Wonder, 1965
*
Just before the first time I ever crossed an ocean under sail, I had to fly […]
[Original post on merveilles.town]
At the rear of Dorotheenstadt cemetery, resting place of Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel, Christa Wolf, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, in Berlin-Mitte, Germany, 2017.
November 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
At the rear of Dorotheenstadt cemetery, resting place of Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel, Christa Wolf, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, in Berlin-Mitte, Germany, 2017.
(From a Berlin notebook, 2016)
I am an inexperienced cyclist. As far as possible, I avoid Berlin’s main arteries and stick to the backstreets. Bike lanes constricted by car traffic, tram tracks and intrusion from roadworks and heavy construction make me […]
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I am an inexperienced cyclist. As far as possible, I avoid Berlin’s main arteries and stick to the backstreets. Bike lanes constricted by car traffic, tram tracks and intrusion from roadworks and heavy construction make me […]
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November 12, 2025 at 7:10 AM
(From a Berlin notebook, 2016)
I am an inexperienced cyclist. As far as possible, I avoid Berlin’s main arteries and stick to the backstreets. Bike lanes constricted by car traffic, tram tracks and intrusion from roadworks and heavy construction make me […]
[Original post on merveilles.town]
I am an inexperienced cyclist. As far as possible, I avoid Berlin’s main arteries and stick to the backstreets. Bike lanes constricted by car traffic, tram tracks and intrusion from roadworks and heavy construction make me […]
[Original post on merveilles.town]
(From a Berlin diary, 2016)
Fehrbelliner Strasse intersects the indefinite, porous border between the old East Berlin neighbourhoods of Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg. Forming a T with the sloping green space of Volkspark am Weinbergweg, the street is lined with […]
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Fehrbelliner Strasse intersects the indefinite, porous border between the old East Berlin neighbourhoods of Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg. Forming a T with the sloping green space of Volkspark am Weinbergweg, the street is lined with […]
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November 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
(From a Berlin diary, 2016)
Fehrbelliner Strasse intersects the indefinite, porous border between the old East Berlin neighbourhoods of Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg. Forming a T with the sloping green space of Volkspark am Weinbergweg, the street is lined with […]
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Fehrbelliner Strasse intersects the indefinite, porous border between the old East Berlin neighbourhoods of Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg. Forming a T with the sloping green space of Volkspark am Weinbergweg, the street is lined with […]
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Another of my diaristic pieces about the sea and sea-dwelling has just been posted on the Azores-based Sea-Water Amplification project's substack.
https://seawateramplification.substack.com/p/unmoored-by-cc-ohanlon
https://seawateramplification.substack.com/p/unmoored-by-cc-ohanlon
November 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Another of my diaristic pieces about the sea and sea-dwelling has just been posted on the Azores-based Sea-Water Amplification project's substack.
https://seawateramplification.substack.com/p/unmoored-by-cc-ohanlon
https://seawateramplification.substack.com/p/unmoored-by-cc-ohanlon
Where we are now.
[A 1944 British Admiralty nautical chart — with depths in fathoms — of the Gulf of Cagliari, Sardinia, based on a 1920 Italian survey.]
[A 1944 British Admiralty nautical chart — with depths in fathoms — of the Gulf of Cagliari, Sardinia, based on a 1920 Italian survey.]
November 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Where we are now.
[A 1944 British Admiralty nautical chart — with depths in fathoms — of the Gulf of Cagliari, Sardinia, based on a 1920 Italian survey.]
[A 1944 British Admiralty nautical chart — with depths in fathoms — of the Gulf of Cagliari, Sardinia, based on a 1920 Italian survey.]
So... Burning House Press has nominated me as the fifth guest editor of their return series of online special editions. As of today I'll take over editorship of Burning House Press online for the month of November.
Submissions are open from today 1st […]
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Submissions are open from today 1st […]
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November 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
So... Burning House Press has nominated me as the fifth guest editor of their return series of online special editions. As of today I'll take over editorship of Burning House Press online for the month of November.
Submissions are open from today 1st […]
[Original post on merveilles.town]
Submissions are open from today 1st […]
[Original post on merveilles.town]
On one of our first long passages aboard Wrack, back in 2023.
Photo by Given Rozell.
Photo by Given Rozell.
October 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
On one of our first long passages aboard Wrack, back in 2023.
Photo by Given Rozell.
Photo by Given Rozell.
The Azores-based collective, Sea-Water Amplification (SWA), has been (re)publishing some of my old writing on the sea and seafaring.
Let them know what you think — and maybe support them too, if you're inclined.
https://seawateramplification.substack.com
Let them know what you think — and maybe support them too, if you're inclined.
https://seawateramplification.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The Azores-based collective, Sea-Water Amplification (SWA), has been (re)publishing some of my old writing on the sea and seafaring.
Let them know what you think — and maybe support them too, if you're inclined.
https://seawateramplification.substack.com
Let them know what you think — and maybe support them too, if you're inclined.
https://seawateramplification.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Thousands of dead fish strewn across the waters of Cagliari harbour, this morning, killed by toxic run-off from the city’s streets and storm drains after last night’s deluge.
October 16, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Thousands of dead fish strewn across the waters of Cagliari harbour, this morning, killed by toxic run-off from the city’s streets and storm drains after last night’s deluge.
This evening: lightning storms and torrential rain over Cagliari, where we and our old sailboat, Wrack, are berthed for the autumn.
October 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
This evening: lightning storms and torrential rain over Cagliari, where we and our old sailboat, Wrack, are berthed for the autumn.
Missing this.
September 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Missing this.
Wrack motoring through a mid-Mediterranean calm.
Video by Given Rozell.
Video by Given Rozell.
August 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Wrack motoring through a mid-Mediterranean calm.
Video by Given Rozell.
Video by Given Rozell.
Our last sunset in Spanish waters as Wrack motors east, away from Ibiza across a windless sea.
August 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Our last sunset in Spanish waters as Wrack motors east, away from Ibiza across a windless sea.
Full moon setting, as we weigh anchor this morning for a 20-mile leg up the east coast of Ibiza.
August 10, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Full moon setting, as we weigh anchor this morning for a 20-mile leg up the east coast of Ibiza.
If you’re up for a real adventure, my friend, artist, surfer and activist Peter Stridh, is looking for crew aboard his well-sorted 10-metre Laurin Koster sailboat for an extended passage from the south coast of Spain towards Portugal on the Atlantic coast and […]
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August 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
If you’re up for a real adventure, my friend, artist, surfer and activist Peter Stridh, is looking for crew aboard his well-sorted 10-metre Laurin Koster sailboat for an extended passage from the south coast of Spain towards Portugal on the Atlantic coast and […]
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[Original post on merveilles.town]
Ibiza, finally.
Landfall at dawn, today.
Landfall at dawn, today.
August 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Ibiza, finally.
Landfall at dawn, today.
Landfall at dawn, today.
The aftermath of a rare rain squall passing over the marina at Alicante at 4.00am, this morning.
We’d left our washing out to dry in the morning sun.
We’d left our washing out to dry in the morning sun.
July 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
The aftermath of a rare rain squall passing over the marina at Alicante at 4.00am, this morning.
We’d left our washing out to dry in the morning sun.
We’d left our washing out to dry in the morning sun.
“There’s no replacement for putting scientists into the field on a ship.”
- Carlos Moffat, physical oceanographer, University of Delaware.
So, of course, the US government de-funds the ship.
https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-plans-abrupt-end-lone-u-s-antarctic-research-icebreaker
- Carlos Moffat, physical oceanographer, University of Delaware.
So, of course, the US government de-funds the ship.
https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-plans-abrupt-end-lone-u-s-antarctic-research-icebreaker
July 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
“There’s no replacement for putting scientists into the field on a ship.”
- Carlos Moffat, physical oceanographer, University of Delaware.
So, of course, the US government de-funds the ship.
https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-plans-abrupt-end-lone-u-s-antarctic-research-icebreaker
- Carlos Moffat, physical oceanographer, University of Delaware.
So, of course, the US government de-funds the ship.
https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-plans-abrupt-end-lone-u-s-antarctic-research-icebreaker