July 3rd, 2012

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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

It should make for a special fire works display, with the full moon.

I spent a second day in Travi, I worked on a couple potential newspaper articles about the Croatian discoveries. It was still extremely hot and humid. I was interupted in my provision shopping when they closed at 2 p.m. when I went back in the evening they were just closing once again. But I managed to get most of what I need. The wind is still from the direction I need to go. I might try to do an overnighter. At least it is a little cooler and no need for mosquito net on the water. I am definitely charmed by Travi. I cannot make heads or tails out of the dialect they speak here in Puglia. Worse than Sicilian.

I also made up a slide show of the regatta from Komiza on Vis to Palagruza, with the lateen rigged fishing boats. Go to item 98) on the web site to find it. And on the subject of traditional sailing, I was sent the final proof of the article I wrote for Wooden Boat magazine about the Nieuwboer Botter yard in Spakenburg and about Botters in general. It will appear in the September/October issue. I’ll remind you again at the time. The WB people did a terrific job with it and it has a ton of good information in it for those who will ever wish to see the spectacle on the Dutch waters and in their museums. “Groote Beer” is also part of it.

I heard back from my very dear friends I knew in Saigon who live on the Cote d’Azur. I will meet with our then land lady of 423 Hai Ba Trung, next month, I last saw her February 26th 1963, when I left Vietnam. The rest of the family I have seen last in the seventies in Paris.