Announcing the Mon Tiki Artist and Writer in Residence Fellowships
WHAT:
A private cabin on the catamaran Mon Tiki, a hand-built, neo-Polynesian catamaran during her voyage up the East Coast from Florida to Montauk NY. This will be an inshore and near-shore trip, with Mon Tiki at anchor in a quiet spot more nights than not. There will be many opportunities to go ashore, and there is good cellphone coverage most of the way.
WHY:
Because you want some uninterrupted time in an inspiring location to think and create.
WHEN:
As soon as you get here.
WHO:
One artist (a primarily non-textual professionally creative person) and one writer.
HOW:
Find Mon Tiki (it’s really not that hard, lots of clues, including her captain’s personal email address and cell phone number, and daily, sometime hourly location updates, and more). Once you find Mon Tiki, contact her captain and make arrangements to rendezvous.
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These fellowships favor a can-do attitude and a moderate level of risk tolerance. No, not the risk that you will die, Mon Tiki is a US Coast Guard certified vessel with state of the art safety equipment. You’re not going to die. No the risk is that you’ll make the effort to secure your space only to end up missing the boat. (A pun! Get it?)
So then, what are you waiting for. Mon Tiki is presently in Sebastian Florida, but she’s on the move (though at an average speed of 5kts she doesn’t move far each day.) Find her. Contact her captain and say, “I want this! I’m in! I’ll meet you at (somewhere along the route)!”
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and you will not regret it. You’ll have lots of free time to think, see the East Coast from an entirely new perspective, and it will look great on your resume.
Ready? Set? GO!
I wish there’d been stuff like this back when I was child-free. Sounds pretty awesome!Report
We have plans on the drawing board for a larger craft. The first consideration is, of course, whether or not it would be a good business move; but also, it would let us extend offers like this to include artists’ families. That would open it up to a lot more people, and be a lot for fun!Report
This is a fantastic initiative, David.Report
We will see. In my 30 odd years of being a grown-up I have a pretty good record of putting together commercial endeavors — finding the right interceptions of opportunity and mutual interest needed to create thriving enterprises.
Where good-deed-doing is concerned I seem less able to engage people’s imaginations. Perhaps at heart I am, not a busker, but a producer. 😉Report
Gah, it’s times like this when being contractually obligated to show up for work really really sucks.Report
How long would such a journey normally take?Report
Once delays for weather are factored in, probably about 40 miles a day.Report
But don’t worry, if you get tired of it he’ll give you a dinghy and some canned food, and you row yourself to the nearest port.Report