Wind, Tide and Oar | The New Menard Press

Wind, Tide & Oar

ISBN 9789083384122

Wind, Tide and Oar takes us deep into the ever flowing dialogue between sailor, boat and the elements. Exploring what it means to sail 'engineless', this unique anthology accompanies the film of the same title, offering a diverse range of first-hand seafaring narratives. These collected works address such themes as tradition, sustainability and self-knowledge, as well as adventures, dreams and ideals. We are invited to experience what it is to be in harmonious movement with the natural world and gracefully subject to its whims.

Jude Brickhill, Stevie Hunt, Mike Jackson, Artur C. Jaschke, Greg Powesland, Wiebe Radstake, Emma Rault, Rose May Ravetz, Jessica Taggart Rose, Richard Titchener, Catharina Vergeer and Huw Wahl.

The book complements the original analogue film, directed by Huw Wahl, Wind, Tide & Oar: Encounters with Engineless Sailing, currently being screened throughout the United Kingdom, Ireland and Europe

Huw Wahl is a filmmaker and artist who has earned international recognition and showcased his award-winning work globally. With funding grants from organisations like The Henry Moore Foundation, Arts Council England and the RPS, he uses the medium of analogue film to explore the transformative potential of creative action. Huw is driven by his belief in film’s power to open experiences and ideas for communal change. His last film The Republics (2020), made in collaboration with the poet Stephen Watts, premiered at CPH:DOX and went on to screen internationally. He was introduced to sailing by his sister Rose Ravetz on her boat, Defiance, where he was struck by the poetic and filmic potential of going engineless. This experience produced the first shoots of the project, which grew into a sibling collaboration of multiple proportions.

Artur Jaschke studied Double-Bass and Drums at Dartington College of Arts in the UK. He holds a PhD in clinical Neuropsychology with the specialisation clinical Neuromusicology from the VU University Amsterdam. Currently he is Reader (Lector) Music-based Therapies and Interventions and in Ecologies of clinical Neuromusicology: creative AI, Music Sciences and Health Care Applications at the department of Music Therapy at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Enschede the Netherlands as well as clinical Research Fellow cognitive neuroscience of music at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the University Medical Center Groningen and the Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research (UK).