gary hanson

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Just announced—the TSO is honoured to receive a $10-million gift from the estate of supporters Tom & Mary Beck. It’s the largest single donation in TSO history, and we are profoundly grateful. Read more about the life and legacy of Tom & Mary Beck. https://t.co/bKwGRwcYPL

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At the helm of Tan Trum, heading due west toward the mainland Peloponnesian peninsula.

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On the island of Sifnos, in the upper town, streets are so narrow and steep that mules are the only way to move building materials.

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Aegean moonrise, over Syros. Viewed from the harbor on Tinos.

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Aegean sunset.

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Inside the Apollon Theater, mid-19th century Opera House in Ermoupoli, on Syros. The city is the capital of Greece's Southern Aegean region.

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Tan Trum, the 41' Danish-built yacht that's our home and our means of transportation for these two weeks. At the dock in Syros.

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The harbor town of Merichas on Kythnos Island in the Aegean's western Cyclades.

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In the distance is Hydra, Leonard Cohen's island home in Greece

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Perfect weather to visit Athens Acropolis: the Parthenon and just below it, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, a 2,200 year old concert venue still in regular use.

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Damage from last night's T+storm in SW part of Cleveland Heights, OH

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Sailing ended this morning as Costa's boat "Tan Trum" was lifted out of the Kilada harbor to it's winter dry dock birth.

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The statue of Bouboulina overlooks Spetses Harbor at sunrise. She was a Greek naval commander and heroine of the 1821 war of independence from the Ottoman Empire.
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Tan Trum approaches the Peleponnese Peninsula in the final stretch of a 75 mile, 12 hour crossing from Milos on Sunday.

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Aegean sunset yesterday.

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The harbor town of Adamadas on the island Milos. Here for a couple days to wait out a big north wind.

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Sun setting over Milos bay.

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Tan Trum, moored in Milos, Costa Pilavachi's 42' yacht that we sailed 95 miles from Kithira over the past two days.

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Oops... "Medicaine" , as in Mediterranean Hurricane.