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In the spring of the year 2003
Dena Hankins and
James Lane moved
aboard the Sailing Vessel Sapien as her third and, we thought
at the time, her last crew. We set out to discover as much of
this planet Earth as we could with this incredible vessel and
indeed we did.
We discovered with this boat that the two of us could sail
to pretty much any port on Earth given the steerage and the
depth for it. For instance, in April of 2005 we sailed S/V Sapien
to the California
Delta, all the way up the Sacramento River to Decker
Island, for one of the most perfect gunkholing experiences
we'd had to date and, best of all, we only ran amuck three times
during the entire adventure. From there we sailed back down
that river and up the San Juaquin River to a fantastic Pirates'
Lair deep within the delta. We then retreated back downriver
to a summer full of cruising from marina to marina in the
San Francisco Bay. In September of that same year, 2005,
we sailed from Emeryville
to Monterey and back, stopping along the way at the ports
of Capitola, Santa Crus and Half Moon Bay before finally ending
that leg of our adventure back in the Oakland Estuary. We logged
over 1000 nautical miles in the Bay in '05 between April and
September and I'd say we "discovered" the San Francisco
Bay. We stayed in the Oakland Inner Harbor at the City of Oaklands
Estuary Fleet Dock for the next year readying S/V Sapien for
yet another great adventure in the lives of trans-Pacific sailors
James Lane and Dena Hankins.
In 2006 the crew of S/V Sapien sailed
across the Pacific Ocean on a 2040 nautical mile journey
to the little town of Hilo, on the Big Island of Hawai'i in
literally the middle of aforementioned Ocean. She (S/V Sapien)
kept her crew in safe, sound and (best of all!) dry conditions
throughout our incredible adventure. We lived on the hook in
Radio Bay for four months while we explored the Big Island then
sailed her around the Island to the south all the way to Kailua-Kona
for a short spell. We then sailed her over
to the Island of Oahu for more permanent moorage environs.
S/V Sapien is an amazing sailing vessel that is a true pleasure
to discover the world on.
In the fall of 2007 we decided to sell S/V Sapien so as to
continue our journey unencumbered by debt culture and came back
to the Bay Area.
We'd like to thank all the wonderful people in all the incredible
places that we discovered aboard this fantastic sailing vessel.
We've now passed this vessel on to a new owner that we hope
will continue her journey of discovery around our beautiful
Planet Earth...
Please spend some time on this (now) historical site discovering
the way we saw and experienced our living water planet aboard
this great ship...
With Respect,
James Lane and Dena Hankins
Berkeley, Calif. December 27th 2007
Her
previous crew...
In
1999, we (Dena Hankins and
James Lane) sailed away
from our home in Seattle, on a beautiful old wooden sailboat
called S/V Sovereign Nation.
Click here
for the whole story so far!!!
We were on a voyage of discovery searching for
a global definition of the word civilization.
Now, eight years later, with over five thousand nautical miles
and a million stories under our belts we're feeling that the
jury is still out on the civilization question but discovering
our Earth by sail is the only way to go... S/V
Sovereign Nation was passed on to another crew
but we have continued our voyage...
Our method until December of 2007:
S/V Sapien.
We're still searching, but
two of the biggest discoveries that we've made in our journeys
so far is that:
1) The word civilization is itself
in need of re-evaluation and a post-millennial/postmodern re-definition.
2) The journey and not the ship is suposed to be the adventure!
And now that we have a sturdy, more reliable vessel, we can
focus more on the search and less on the vehicle. Sapien is
a good boat and will ably and comfortably take us around the
world.
Click to enter
our gallery
page...
We have developed a few ways for
you to get to know us.
- Read up on our big
plans to see where we're
headed and find out about our missions of research and diplomacy
throughout the world.
- Judge us by our boat. You can get a detailed feeling for
the S.V. Sapien by reading through our gear
list.
- What's truer than true? Get the very, very real (if not
always historically accurate) story by reading our writings.
- Know us already? Find out where we are and read up on what
we're doing on the page for our extended crew - you know,
the family.
Beyond that, send us emails and let us know
what you think of all this. You can reach Dena and James both
by adding their name to this web address. Enjoy!
(There is another story here! If your
using explorer hover your arrow over each photo you'll get the
inside story of that photo or maybe just an 'ol tyme yarn just
for the sake of the muse. If each photo on this site is equal
to the traditional 1000 words it is a massive work in progress
that is a lot of fun to do.[If that is in fact what is being
done here.] I'm sure it's just a setting that I'm not hip to
but I can't seem to get the "alts" to work for Mozilla.)
If you like our photography, thanks!
All photography on this site is done by James
Lane, excepting the occasional click from Dena
Hankins.You are more than welcome to use our photos for
anything you want, excluding making money off of them. However,
if you do feel that you could make some money with our images,
step up and speak your mind, let us in on all the details and
you know, cut us in on a pizza the action! We are reasonable
people who wish to sail around the world in our sailboat; we
want to pay for that trip any way we can.
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... And what of civilization? Well, we'll see.
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