It later emerged that an Israeli legal group, Shurat HaDin, had submitted a complaint stating that the ship was not fit to sail, obliging the Greek authorities to inspect the ship before allowing it to leave.
I can't say I'm now a great authority on sailing but I certainly got a feel for its drama, the skill needed to compete and the sense of taking on the elements".
As of Friday morning, after more than a week in ports across Greece, not a single ship had explicit clearance from the Greek authorities to set sail, and it remains unclear when more ships might sail, or what an eventual flotilla might resemble.
Dermont writes about sailing with such precision and authority it's hard to believe she's not a salty old sea captain.
Some authorities maintain that the sail was actually a hump used to store water and lipids.
With Weymouth and Portland scheduled to host 2012 Olympic sailing events the project reopened; the local authorities favouring a more environmentally friendly proposal than in the 1990s.
I had a look at Willemstad's port records to see if the authorities knew about the Summer Bliss sailing into any docks or wharfs that night.
The Probo Koala, which had sailed to Europe, was detained by Estonian authorities in the port of Paldiski.
Key in the investigations is the search for transfers that require little steering effort to enable the transfers with low-control authority solar sail-like devices such as SpaceChips.
Borrowing Nietzsche's definition, we are the children of Dionysus, sailing in a barrel and not recognising any authority.
