The opportunity to engage in research relating to labour and potentials associated with moving the sailing vessel ‘OM’ 🕉️ (MMSI 338316308). ‘OM’ is owed to the serendipitous requirement to aid the owner and captain Ahmed F. Agrama. Agrama’s daughter, Natasha requested the desire for her farther to take crew for the 2600 NM journey via a mutual friend, Chiara Giovando, who had recently visited Aotearoa. The timing and my vicinity to Opua, allowed me to be present and on hand soon after the request was made, which Natasha described as, miraculous.

Although the act of return did not transpire as intended, and my intentions to action tasks for 24 hours after passing the 180º longitude now impossible, we returned the sailing vessel to Opua safely. At the moment of returning, both directions were definable as a ‘return.’ The warp and woof of engaging with Captain Ahmed from the 9th - 28th April 2023 produced, a collection of audio recordings, still and moving images, a log book, and a series of drawings. This material can be seen to represent this moment or exist as phenomenal evidence, itself able to be returned to.