c.c. o'hanlon
@ccohanlon.bsky.social
vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck.
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#nobots
"So here is us, on the raggedy edge."
– from the film Serenity (2005)
https://linktr.ee/ccohanlon
#nobots
"So here is us, on the raggedy edge."
– from the film Serenity (2005)
“People expect you to be who you were yesterday. And I don’t want to be who I was yesterday. I want to be smarter and better.”
– Kathleen Hanna
[via Creem magazine, 2022]
www.creem.com/fresh-creem/...
Below: a young Kathleen Hanna with writer Kathy Acker, New City Theatre, Seattle, 1989.
– Kathleen Hanna
[via Creem magazine, 2022]
www.creem.com/fresh-creem/...
Below: a young Kathleen Hanna with writer Kathy Acker, New City Theatre, Seattle, 1989.
January 23, 2026 at 3:27 PM
“People expect you to be who you were yesterday. And I don’t want to be who I was yesterday. I want to be smarter and better.”
– Kathleen Hanna
[via Creem magazine, 2022]
www.creem.com/fresh-creem/...
Below: a young Kathleen Hanna with writer Kathy Acker, New City Theatre, Seattle, 1989.
– Kathleen Hanna
[via Creem magazine, 2022]
www.creem.com/fresh-creem/...
Below: a young Kathleen Hanna with writer Kathy Acker, New City Theatre, Seattle, 1989.
Given and our youngest on a cold (1ºC) New Year's Eve in Rome.
December 31, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Given and our youngest on a cold (1ºC) New Year's Eve in Rome.
December 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Reasons (for us) to be cheerful this holiday season: our youngest, sheltering in Berlin with her older sister, tended by our cooler-than-you two-year-old granddaughter (who adores her).
December 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Reasons (for us) to be cheerful this holiday season: our youngest, sheltering in Berlin with her older sister, tended by our cooler-than-you two-year-old granddaughter (who adores her).
A slow afternoon groove to Miles Davis' Tribute to Jack Johnson.
Below, a photo from the rigged 1916 fight, in Barcelona, between Johnson (right) and Arthur Cravan, the surrealist poet, said — mostly by him — to be a nephew of Oscar Wilde.
Cravan disappeared at sea off the coast of Mexico.
Below, a photo from the rigged 1916 fight, in Barcelona, between Johnson (right) and Arthur Cravan, the surrealist poet, said — mostly by him — to be a nephew of Oscar Wilde.
Cravan disappeared at sea off the coast of Mexico.
December 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
A slow afternoon groove to Miles Davis' Tribute to Jack Johnson.
Below, a photo from the rigged 1916 fight, in Barcelona, between Johnson (right) and Arthur Cravan, the surrealist poet, said — mostly by him — to be a nephew of Oscar Wilde.
Cravan disappeared at sea off the coast of Mexico.
Below, a photo from the rigged 1916 fight, in Barcelona, between Johnson (right) and Arthur Cravan, the surrealist poet, said — mostly by him — to be a nephew of Oscar Wilde.
Cravan disappeared at sea off the coast of Mexico.
December 21, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Ho'i I ka piko ('return to the source'), a 2,700+ nautical mile voyage from California to Hawai'i aboard a 26ft wooden double canoe named ʻAʻā, a Wharram-designed Pahi, in 2024.
An emotive story in seven episodes of a new generation of traditional ocean voyagers.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSJy...
An emotive story in seven episodes of a new generation of traditional ocean voyagers.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSJy...
December 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Ho'i I ka piko ('return to the source'), a 2,700+ nautical mile voyage from California to Hawai'i aboard a 26ft wooden double canoe named ʻAʻā, a Wharram-designed Pahi, in 2024.
An emotive story in seven episodes of a new generation of traditional ocean voyagers.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSJy...
An emotive story in seven episodes of a new generation of traditional ocean voyagers.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSJy...
Mary and George Oppen abord the small yacht that was their refuge (and means of escape) during late 1920s/early 1930s, sailing from Detroit, across Lake Erie to the Erie Canal, then down the Hudson River to New York City/
December 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Mary and George Oppen abord the small yacht that was their refuge (and means of escape) during late 1920s/early 1930s, sailing from Detroit, across Lake Erie to the Erie Canal, then down the Hudson River to New York City/
I know why it is
It’s because he’s not concealing
His desperate estrangement from people
– Sam Shepard
[from Motel Chronicles, 1982]
It’s because he’s not concealing
His desperate estrangement from people
– Sam Shepard
[from Motel Chronicles, 1982]
December 17, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I know why it is
It’s because he’s not concealing
His desperate estrangement from people
– Sam Shepard
[from Motel Chronicles, 1982]
It’s because he’s not concealing
His desperate estrangement from people
– Sam Shepard
[from Motel Chronicles, 1982]
The late Al Neil — jazz pianist, composer, multi-media artist, author, and "gem of Vancouver history" (The British Columbia Review, 2019) — outside the Blue Cabin, where he lived, near Cates Park, in Dollarton, North Vancouver.
Photo by Jim Jardine.
Photo by Jim Jardine.
December 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The late Al Neil — jazz pianist, composer, multi-media artist, author, and "gem of Vancouver history" (The British Columbia Review, 2019) — outside the Blue Cabin, where he lived, near Cates Park, in Dollarton, North Vancouver.
Photo by Jim Jardine.
Photo by Jim Jardine.
Five months ago, between Alicante and Ibiza.
Photos by Finn O'Hanlon.
Photos by Finn O'Hanlon.
December 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Five months ago, between Alicante and Ibiza.
Photos by Finn O'Hanlon.
Photos by Finn O'Hanlon.
A wondrous quote from George, back in 2010:
December 12, 2025 at 1:36 AM
A wondrous quote from George, back in 2010:
Flashback to August: Given on deck, framed by the sprayhood, waiting for a breeze to set in on a windless Mediterranean between Ibiza and the Gulf of Teulada, in southern Sardinia.
Photo by Finn O'Hanlon.
Photo by Finn O'Hanlon.
December 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Flashback to August: Given on deck, framed by the sprayhood, waiting for a breeze to set in on a windless Mediterranean between Ibiza and the Gulf of Teulada, in southern Sardinia.
Photo by Finn O'Hanlon.
Photo by Finn O'Hanlon.
A morning view (on the first day of winter) of our temporary home, Marina di Sant' Elmo, as we grabbed a coffee before our first showers in a week — photo by Given.
December 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A morning view (on the first day of winter) of our temporary home, Marina di Sant' Elmo, as we grabbed a coffee before our first showers in a week — photo by Given.
Our dear friend and fellow vagabond, Swedish artist, surfer and permaculturalist Peter Stridh arrived today in Cagliari aboard the engineless, 10-metre @pinoseed, having taken two days in contrary conditions to sail singlehanded from the Gulf of Teulada, on the rugged south-west coast of Sardinia.
November 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Our dear friend and fellow vagabond, Swedish artist, surfer and permaculturalist Peter Stridh arrived today in Cagliari aboard the engineless, 10-metre @pinoseed, having taken two days in contrary conditions to sail singlehanded from the Gulf of Teulada, on the rugged south-west coast of Sardinia.
Our dear friend, fellow vagabond, and former Almerimar dock neighbour, Peter Stridh is sailing towards Cagliari aboard the engineless, 10-metre @pinoseed-connect.bsky.social — today's a pleasant weather window ahead of rain and a hardening mistral on Friday.
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Our dear friend, fellow vagabond, and former Almerimar dock neighbour, Peter Stridh is sailing towards Cagliari aboard the engineless, 10-metre @pinoseed-connect.bsky.social — today's a pleasant weather window ahead of rain and a hardening mistral on Friday.
We are between a rock and a hard place, pleading for help.
An excerpt from our latest @gofundme.com update:
www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-i...
An excerpt from our latest @gofundme.com update:
www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-i...
November 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
We are between a rock and a hard place, pleading for help.
An excerpt from our latest @gofundme.com update:
www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-i...
An excerpt from our latest @gofundme.com update:
www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-i...
"...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 old age..."
Please read our latest update. We really need your help.
www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-i...
Please read our latest update. We really need your help.
www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-i...
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 PM
"...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 old age..."
Please read our latest update. We really need your help.
www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-i...
Please read our latest update. We really need your help.
www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-i...
"Red sky at night..."
Sunset over Cagliari harbour, this evening.
Sunset over Cagliari harbour, this evening.
November 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"Red sky at night..."
Sunset over Cagliari harbour, this evening.
Sunset over Cagliari harbour, this evening.
An entirely different type of book but also a great read: The Starship and the Canoe by Kenneth Brower.
November 12, 2025 at 6:11 AM
An entirely different type of book but also a great read: The Starship and the Canoe by Kenneth Brower.
On one of our first long passages aboard Wrack, back in 2023.
Photo by Given Rozell.
Photo by Given Rozell.
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
On one of our first long passages aboard Wrack, back in 2023.
Photo by Given Rozell.
Photo by Given Rozell.
A mid-afternoon thunderstorm approaches (photo from Wrack's tiny galley).
November 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
A mid-afternoon thunderstorm approaches (photo from Wrack's tiny galley).
The Tara Polar Research Station, a French vessel purpose-built to drift in arctic ice, in Reykjavik harbor.
[via @rahmstorf.bsky.social]
fondationtaraocean.org/en/schooner/...
[via @rahmstorf.bsky.social]
fondationtaraocean.org/en/schooner/...
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The Tara Polar Research Station, a French vessel purpose-built to drift in arctic ice, in Reykjavik harbor.
[via @rahmstorf.bsky.social]
fondationtaraocean.org/en/schooner/...
[via @rahmstorf.bsky.social]
fondationtaraocean.org/en/schooner/...
The Azores-based researchers and educators, Sea-Water Amplification (SWA), have 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.
seawateramplification.substack.com
Let them know what you think — and maybe support them too, if you're inclined.
seawateramplification.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The Azores-based researchers and educators, Sea-Water Amplification (SWA), have 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.
seawateramplification.substack.com
Let them know what you think — and maybe support them too, if you're inclined.
seawateramplification.substack.com
I worry that I let him read Warren Ellis's Transmetropolitan comics when he was young...
October 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I worry that I let him read Warren Ellis's Transmetropolitan comics when he was young...