THE PROMISED ISLANDS # 032 Saturday, December 29, 2018 Los Roques, Venezuela 11°56’912” N, 066°40’704” W Traduccion Castellano & Français abajo & en bas The Fools drop anchor at the Promised Islands off the coast of Venezuela. On the biggest island El Gran Roque live some thousand people that cater for the happy rich escaping […]
Category Archives: Captains Black Log
Captain August’s log book
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THE GRAN PREMIÈRE # 031 Tuesday, October 23, 2018 SMS-pier, Waterkant #5, Paramaribo, Suriname. 55º09´173´´ North, 005º49´520´´ West Traduccion Castellano & Français abajo & en bas Before each of the shows, another local personality is set on a wooden vegetable box to give a short prologue about freedom. The première was opened by the Chargé […]
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FREEDOM # 030 Sunday, September 23, 2018 SMS-pier, Waterkant #5, Paramaribo, Suriname. 55º09´173´´, North, 005º49´520´´ West The huge wooden summer shed on the quay that faces the ship gradually transforms into a reception room, office, dressing studio and rehearsal space. Things are getting serious. We could comfortably settle here if the Fool’s Fate wasn’t an […]
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# 029 Sunday, July 01, 2018 SMS-pier, Waterkant #5, Paramaribo, Suriname. 55º09´173´´, North, 005º49´520´´ West The French Fool Frederic found himself in the jungle, teaching the captain of a small marroon community to fire the outdated cannon that no-one knows how it landed there. He himself learned the trade of shooting by restaging historical battles […]
# 028 Saturday, May 12, 2018 SMS-pier, Waterkant #5, Paramaribo, Suriname. 55º09´173´´, North, 005º49´520´´ West THE BOOMBOAT The arrival of the Ship of Fools provoked a small revolution on the last jetties that belong to the Suriname Maritime Company. Expectations were high. The Company, in a heroic attempt to remount the inexorable slope, speeded up […]
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# 027 Sunday, April one, 2018 SMS-pier, Waterkant #5, Paramaribo, Suriname. 55º09´173´´, North, 005º49´520´´ West A JOLLY ENTRY Arriving in Paramaribo feels like the coming home of a lost brother. The fools come back to the home country of sweet folly. It feels like sailing back to the Amsterdam of the seventies and find it […]
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# 026 Monday, March 12, 2018 Saint-Laurent-du-Maconi, Guyana, La France. 52º18´401´´, North, 005º57´117´´ West PARAMARIBO RIVERSIDE High tide averted the danger of being stuck in the mud forever. The biggest danger of seduction maybe has been the august largeness of the river, far beyond the majesty that presented us already the river Neva or […]
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# 026 Monday, March 12, 2018 Saint-Laurent-du-Maconi, Guyana, La France. 52º18´401´´, North, 005º57´117´´ West PARAMARIBO RIVERSIDE High tide averted the danger of being stuck in the mud forever. The biggest danger of seduction maybe has been the august largeness of the river, far beyond the majesty that presented us already rivers like the Neva or […]
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# 025 Thursday, February 8, 2018 Saint-Laurent-du-Maconi, Guyana, La France. 54º01´685´´, North, 005º30´618´´ West LAND IN SIGHT The Fools are up the river Maroni. The world change from blue to green. After a fortnight of an undisturbed horizon abounds the jungle around. Still at sea a fucking couple of turtles prepared them a jolly welcome. […]
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Logbook # 024 Monday, January 22, 2018 Tarrafal, São Antão, Cabo Verde. 25º18´401´´, North, 016º57´117´´ West AMERICA ! The sea keeps on calling. Strong winds keep pushing westward. The sailors long for new horizons. Partir, c’est mourir un peu. Scandalously, we leave this generous folk who’s now massively preparing their most frenetic annual ceremony, the […]