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Our Flag Means Death was a WIN for this blog

#i can finally rest

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Underwater Motion of Seagrass and Kelp

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Fidan Zaman (Azerbaijani, based Baku, Azerbaijan) - Paintings from her travel diary called The Sea, Paintings: Acrylic

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who’s the world’s most famous she/it? the ocean.

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Idk why I’ve only got this notification now but THANK YOU FOR THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION

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Nautical Aesthetics↴

Lighthousecore 

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Ship on Stormy Seas by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Russian, 1817-1900)

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me nd my pirate girlfriend

[holdin hands]

me: bb ur hands r so cold

her: that me hook

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Should I start a series of Random Nautical Facts? Yes? Okay.

Random Nautical Fact: those little whitecaps you see on the water when it’s windy are called “cats paws” and they begin to form when the wind speed is about 7-10 knots (which I explain below, fear not). Don’t cats paws sound adorable, even though their appearance can be an early warning of rougher seas?

These guys are cat’s paws. Everybody say AWW:

What are knots? WELL. For this to make any sense, first we have to talk about the difference between nautical miles and land miles.

A nautical mile is based on the circumference of the earth, and is equal to one minute of latitude. It is slightly longer than a land mile (1 nautical mile = 1.1508 land miles) because it takes into account the earth’s curvature. Nautical miles are used for charting and navigating.

A knot is one nautical mile per hour (1 knot = 1.15 miles per hour). The term knot dates from the 17th century, when sailors measured the speed of their ship by using a device called a "common log." This device was a coil of rope with uniformly spaced knots, attached to a piece of wood shaped like a wedge. The piece of wood was lowered from the back of the ship and allowed to float behind it. The line was allowed to play out freely from the coil as the piece of wood fell behind the ship for a specific amount of time. When the specified time had passed, the line was pulled in and the number of knots on the rope between the ship and the wood were counted. The speed of the ship was the number of knots counted.

Random nautical facts!

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going on a journey

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The fact that 2021 begun with a sea shanty renaissance and three months later ships are back on the 1700 trade routes is, actually, extremely funny.

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Bit choppy today.

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i love how different the sea looks at certain moments

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person at the job interview: where do you see yourself in 5 years?

me:

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Tarryn Hatchett  

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Lighthousecore but without the isolation. Your wife keeps the light with you. The two of you buy fruits and vegetables and fish at the village markets once a week. Everyone in your seaside town knows your name and respects you and watches for your light at night. The postman delivers packages to your door, big brown paper ones full of warm jackets and new lanterns. Sailors, mermaids, selkies, and merrow wave and you wave back.