How might one move from point to point on a Cartesian plane? Can a syntax of movement between moments be a system of navigation? Coordinates are recorded, these points are the moments brought forward, but do they allow anything other than positioning to be determined? (When will this be done, and to what end?)
Found and to be reconsidered, and although permission has been granted, is this reconsideration a sort of appropriation? Can it be appropriation when proclaimed potential is considered at inception, does appropriation of an objects trajectory exist instead as a prompt or instruction? Is sailing simply an appropriation of the winds force, aiding in propulsion through space and time?
To consider improvisational play (as in composer Anthony Braxton’s structured improvisation), assemblage of moments as montage (as in film maker Sergei Eisenstein’s montage), doing so by means as bricolour (as in anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss’ bricolour), using these tools and means ready at hand, enables movement through poetics present in a trajectory.
I understand that engagement with such attempts inherently embody values of te ao Māori, specifically manaakitanga (care and hospitality) and whanaungatanga (kinship and relationships). Whanaungatanga explicitly relates to the greater Pacifica concept of the Vā, describing the space between generally or specifically the relational space between persons. There is need to acknowledge the relevance of these values, and to allow them to support and inform process, actions and subsequent making. (edited: 11-06-25)
Clear sky, 12-15 knots (no other information recorded on the day) The intention to test the trailer’s ability to function went well, but the desire to sail did not go ahead due to damage to the sail track on the mast.
When, as in how often, can one reevaluate a past consideration? Does this reconsideration temporally relate one to a past moment? Does desire to connect and the inability to do so, due to this temporal space become described as disconnected correspondence with a past moment? Do attempts to work through connections of past moments to the present articulate the flow of Deleuzian immanence? (Deleuze, G. 2001, Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life (Trans. Anne Boyman) Urzone Inc, New York, pg 25.)
Where then can a construction be held? In a state of waiting, ready to come forward into a future so engagement can be attempted. What parts are used to assemble a construction, where does the assemblage end?
What is the structure of a boat trailer? During assessment of the viability of the vessels trailer, attention is brought to reliance on all parts, including support structures, within or outside of, visible or otherwise. What is it to transport a vessel that is itself a means of transport? How long will navigation from A to B take?
27-12-24. Clear sky, 12-15 knots (no other information recorded on the day) The intention to test the trailer’s ability to function went well, but the desire to sail did not go ahead.
Tasks often fail due to one detail or other that is made evident in the moment, eg: due to damage to the sail track on the mast, a bent point on the mast inhibited the sprit car from running all the way up the mast. Due to not having the sufficient tool/s on hand, the water test was limited to rowing.
Although this vessel has the ability to move on water, support structures are required to enable the vessel to be transported on land. Do these structures exist as part of the vessel, unable to be separated. With one support structure replaced with another, are the previous structures still present within?
The task of replacing a rusted out trailer for a ‘new’ trailer, which was found by asking around the community my parents are a part of.
What about the support structures that enabled the boat to be built in the first place? I visited Graham Hoyte on the 12th May, 2023 to discuss this ongoing project, in the end he offered the saw horses he still had from the construction of the MBP vessel in exchange for a new set. (Photo below provided by Hoyte on the day.) Although I have not found any photo evidence that these supports were used, they are a stand in for Hoyte as a support structure himself. A year later my father-in-law and I picked these up, dismantled the pair into two bundles as the new set were, and so they could be readily transported. *Look up the name of the tool — as in, considering those who labour over a vessel, construct a vessel, a barrel maybe, something to hold something else, using tools to construct another tool… objects related to an origin. As in, Albert Camus’ Le Premier Homme (The First Man) 1994. pg 124.
Graham Hoyte’s description of these saw horses being used during construction of the vessel / site of inquiry is curious. There is currently no photo evidence found that shows this type of saw horse being used. That said, the possible fiction of this claim could provide ground for considering fiction as a means to move forward.
