Land, Uruguay to be precise, just off Cabo Polonio to be a little more
precise.
80 miles to go, the wind is light which with the Rio de le Plata’s reputation
for some nasty winds - the Sudestadas and the Pampero - is fine by me. If the
breeze holds we will be in Piriapolis sometime tomorrow morning.
Ships and fishing boats kept me occupied last night and I expect tonight will
be the same, otherwise an uneventful 24 hours. The most significant event to
report is that I finished “War and Peace” this morning. Yahoo! A strange book,
part novel, part history, and part philosophy. I think Tolstoy’s major point is
that free will is an illusion - no argument from me. His closing lines compare
our pre-Copernican perception of reality with an historiography which includes
the notion of free will:
“In the first case it was necessary to renounce the consciousness of an
unreal immobility in space and to recognize a motion we did not feel; in the
present case it is similarly necessary to renounce a freedom that does not
exist, and to recognize a dependence of which we are not conscious.”
Thus ends page 1455, I suspect he could have drawn this conclusion in a
slightly more concise manner, but then it wouldn‘t be “War and Peace“.
Meanwhile the low sandy coast and shallow green waters of Uruguay sails
by.
All is well.
Bob Cat:
Ah, delightful! Light breeze, sun shining, an ever so gentle little roll. Now
this is feline cruising. I enjoyed a little bit of sun in the cockpit this
morning, now as it warms up back to the quarter berth. More of the same please .
. . Zzzzzzz.
