THE WESTERN WIND When Monteverdi was busy inventing opera, at the dawn of the seventeenth century, Adriano Banchieri, an organist, a composer, and a monk, was bringing down the curtain on the "madrigal comedy" with "Barca di Venetia per Padova," a very secular entertainment set on a canal boat embarking from La Serenissima.
As they bobbed and breaststroked, their unmanned boat embarked on its repetitive circular course, bearing down on the three swimmers, who couldn't get out of its way.
Each day, the boat embarks at the dock adjacent to the Glacier Bay Lodge and sets off on a 130-mile trek through Bartlett Cove and Glacier Bay.
With few exceptions, spotty albacore catches have been the norm aboard day boats embarking nightly to the most productive fishing grounds they can reach: 50 to 85 miles southwest of Point Loma.
All had under-folding stocks – a practical feature for handling a weapon in the confines of a small boat, for embarking and disembarking vessels or for concealing a weapon from passing helicopters and patrols.
People-smugglers in Indonesia, where most boat people embark, have twigged that most asylum-seekers dumped on Nauru were eventually settled as refugees in Australia.
He belonged to that new generation of Australian actors who did not come west by boat to embark on the conquest of London, and significantly it was not to senior figures in British theatre that our newspapers turned for tributes to him last week, but his Australian peers, Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett.
He left Britain in a Sunderland flying boat and embarked on an arduous two-week, multi-stage flight via Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria (where he was delayed by the Anglo-Iraqi War), Basra, Karachi and Rangoon, where he was met by an RAF transport.
The aim is to deter boat people from embarking on dangerous sea voyages in the first place.
The hurricane-like conditions hit the Around Alone race two weeks ago, days after boats had embarked from Torbay, England, to begin the second leg of the five-leg competition.
He and his father walked a hundred kilometres from Brussels to the coast of West Flanders, where they caught one of the final boats to embark before the Germans arrived.
