Some time ago I found an old wiro notebook in a drawer. A scruffy wiro bound notebook with a photo of 2 men in a kayak with a bear on the front cover. In that notebook I found terrible sketches drawn in pencil made while travelling in 1991. One sketch leapt out at me. It was a rough pencil sketch of Mt Ararat from a backpacking trip to eastern Turkey. The sketch really surprised me – it was a very basic pencil sketch, drawn using a .5mm technical pencil on a cheap notepad. The sketch is just black and white… To my surprise the sounds and smells of the day came flooding back. Meeting some Kurdish goat herders and their flock near the base of Mt Ararat, about 10km from the Iranian border on a bright sunny but cool, alpine day. Along with memories of driving across the mountain steppe in an old Renault 19 and the smells of chai and coffee in a Doğubayazıt pasta solunu. It all came back come flooding back! Why did it evoke such vivid memories? I’m not really sure to be honest. Maybe t...
The biggest super yacht to have ever berthed in Auckland arrived last week, and it looks totally mad and at 119 meters long it's longer than New Zealand's largest navy vessels!
It's designed by Philippe Starck apparently, so think sleek, like a submarine. Almost devoid of embellishments, port holes, rails and the like, an invisible panel slides away so a smaller boat or three can be launched, but that's about all I could see.
She was built in Germany by Blohm + Voss, they've been building floating things since 1877. They know a thing or two about boats having pumped out many of the world's maritime heavy hitters some of which you might have heard of including the Bismark.
It's designed by Philippe Starck apparently, so think sleek, like a submarine. Almost devoid of embellishments, port holes, rails and the like, an invisible panel slides away so a smaller boat or three can be launched, but that's about all I could see.
She was built in Germany by Blohm + Voss, they've been building floating things since 1877. They know a thing or two about boats having pumped out many of the world's maritime heavy hitters some of which you might have heard of including the Bismark.
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