Onboard Shamrock V (JK3) during the Regates Royales in Cannes, France.
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Dĩ hoà vi quý.
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Oct 13
Oct 13
Hong Kong
Hong Kong, 香港, 22º17’59″N 114º12’23″E
No other city is quite like this. Hong Kong is perpetually on the go, between the present and the future, it is hyperactive, like the world itself in the early years of the 21st century. Founded by Europeans, developed by Asians, governed by Chinese, designed and run by entrepreneurs, architects, economists, and adventurers from the four corners of the world, in its streets and waterways you may sense the turning of the Earth itself.
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Jan 11
Jan 11
Morocco
31°47'13"N 7°05'43"W
I kept dreaming of desert sunsets, boundless Ocean, other world until I got there, perhaps, in some of this pictures, we can see the spirit of the essential, eternal and unchanging Morocco.
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Oct 10
Oct 10
Elena
Saint Tropez, France 43º13’70″N 6º42’42″E
Onboard the schooner Elena during “Les voiles de saint Tropez”, France.‘Build me a schooner that can win’. Elena is a replica of the Herreshoff schooner designed in 1910, who won the Trans-Atlantic Race in 1928. Newly built in 2009 at the Factorial Naval
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Oct 10
Oct 10
Altair
Saint Tropez, France 43º16’42″N 6º38’48″E
Onboard Altair during “Les voiles de Saint Tropez”, France.
Commissioned in 1929 by Captain Guy H MacCaw whose brief to William Fife was simply: ‘build a sound, safe cruiser, safe to go to the south seas islands in with no anxiety’. Fife was then 73 years. 
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Sep 10
Sep 10
Velsheda
Saint Tropez, France 43º16’54″N 6º42’43″E
Onboard Velsheda during “Les Voiles de Saint Tropez”, France. Designed by Charles Nicholson and built by Camper & Nicholson in 1933 for Mr W.L. Stephenson, Owner of Woolworth chain of shops, she was built in 1933 at Gosport.
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Sep 10
Sep 10
Shamrock V
Saint Tropez, France 43º17’36″N 6º38’46″E
Shamrock V (JK3) during “Les Voiles de Saint Tropez”, France.
Shamrock V was built in 1930 for Sir Thomas Lipton’s fifth and last America’s Cup challenge. Designed by Nicholson, she was the first British yacht to be built to the new J Class Rule and is the only remaining J to have been built in wood.
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Sep 09
Sep 09
Vanuatu
Port Vila, Efate island, Vanuatu 17º44’38″S 168º18’73″E
PARADISE #10
Port Vila local market at night, Vanuatu.
Port Vila is the capital and largest city of Vanuatu. Situated on the south coast of the island of Efate, in Shefa Province.Port Vila is the economic and commercial centre of Vanuatu .The population is around 38,000; predominately Melanesian, with small Polynesian, Asian, Australian and European populations, namely French and British.
Bislama is spoken by everyone as the day-to-day language. In addition, English and French are also widespread. Other Indigenous languages are also spoken in the city.
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Jul 09
Jul 09
Catch of the day
Louisiade Archipalego, Papua New Guinea 11º08’80″S 152º41’64″E
PARADISE #8
“Pacific Natives may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon Earth, but in reality they are far more happier than we Europeans; being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous but the necessary Conveniences so much sought after in Europe, they are happier in not knowing them. They live in a Tranquillity which is not disturbed by the Inequality of Conditions. The Earth and Sea of their own accord furnishes them with all things necessary for life, they covet not Magnificent House, Household-stuff &c, they live in a warm and fine Climate and enjoy a very wholesome Air, so that they have very little need of Clothing and this they seem to be very sensible of, for many of whom we gave Cloth &c to, left it carelessly upon the Sea beach and in the Woods as a thing they had no manner of use for. In short they seem’d to set no Value upon anything of their own for any one article we could offer them; this in my opinion argues that they think themselves provided with all the necessary’s of life and that they have no superfluities.”
James Cook (October 27, 1728 – February 14, 1779) was a British explorer and navigator. He made three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, in which its main shorelines were discovered.
Captain Cook’s Journal during his first voyage round the world made in H.M. Bark “Endeavour” 1768-71
Nothing’s changed since… 
