Mankind’s modern Scourge, Television.

The first time I was introduced to television was in France in 1960 after arriving from South Africa where, by order of the government, no television broadcast was allowed. South …

Cars, Crooks and Copycats

This time I am not going to talk about murder and destruction on the african continent but I’ll try and keep it simple by describing how global insanity has invaded …

Anyone around who knew pre-kalashnikof Africa?

  It’s sad to say but there are not many people left who can remember that blissful period in Africa. I’m lucky to have seen a few bits of it …
Soviet Union’s 4-masted ‘Krusenstern’

The Commissar who destroyed the Captain’s honour

In my blog of the Twin Towers I told you that I participated with my schooner ‘Artemis’ in the 1976 Tall Ships’ Race that was organized to give our american …

The Dams that Damned Great Rivers

In my Twin towers blog I mentioned global insanity as some kind of culprit behind that ruthless and well-executed destruction. But of course, behind such a notion of worldwide human …

The captain who sailed without a chronometer

Captain Joshua Slocum is a well-known seaman in nautical tales and history, yet one of his most extraordinary exploits remains little known. Slocum had been master of many fine square-rigged …
Twin Towers in 1976

How I saw the Twin Towers from the Hudson River

In all innocence I took that picture on the 4th of July 1976. With my schooner that you can see on the homepage, I had participated in a Tall Ships …

Us Capeys and the Rest of the World

My oversea’s readers might wonder who ‘us capeys’ might be and it’ll be my pleasure to enlighten them. Capeys are the people that live around the Cape of Good Hope, …

The Hurricane that Flopped

Well, the thing did do some damage, after all it was still a tropical storm since its demotion but for all the people that hoped that New York was going to …

A Tale of the Sea

More than fifty years ago I began to make my living as a fisherman. I was employed as mate on a whale-catcher, I dived for abalone, I caught pilchards on …

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