The maiden voyage of The Relentless took place the weekend and week of August 24th in the Sacramento River Delta where a collection of like minded adventurers dropped anchor for a unique gathering. In the middle of the channel near Mandeville Tip County Park we joined a group of boaters interested in exploring the political and social freedoms of life on the water. The growing movement and interest in seasteading http://seasteading.org/ was the topic on all of our minds.
The Artstead is our exploration of life and art on the water. It took a dedicated crew of extremely talented individuals to get this girl moving and we are so pleased with the results. We were thrilled to have world class performers like Jason Webley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Webley and Miriam from Vau-De-Vire Society headlining the Saturday night show. Jason had the whole festival singing and dancing along with his accordion. There was even a spontaneous dance to an accordion cover of Micheal Jackson’s “Thriller.” Miriam performed on the trapeze suspended out over the water and actually splashed the audience during her act!
Now we’re back at the boat yard and gearing up to make the trip through the Carquinez Strait and into the San Francisco Bay. This will require some more work including better steering mechanisms and fine tuning of Chicken John’s http://chickenjohn.wordpress.com/ signature Mercedes long-tail engine.
As of today we have 9 days to reach our funding goal or we get zero of the pledged funding. Please feel free to forward this to anyone you know who might want to get involved by backing the project!
Photography and updates by Anja Ulfeldt
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