Mark C. Parsons

 

Lazarus was my boat.  It took me and 4 friends around the world between 1992 and 1995. 

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5 of us purchased a boat that had been generally neglected - and then badly damaged in a hurricane that pushed through Massachusetts in August of 1991.  I walked down to the ocean and watched the boats crash on the rocks along the shoreline.  A few months later, Bill Fallon, Tim Sperry, Matt Sperry, Chris Smith and I would buy one of these broken boats, spend a year rebuilding her, and then embark on an almost 3 year journey around this earth.

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The images here are some of the precious few that survive from that pre-digital journey.  I didn't actually own a camera, nor did I consider the visual documentation of the trip a particularly important element of my experience at that time.  We were just living.  We lived, ate, sailed, slept, cooked, and worked on that boat.

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The story is too long to tell, but the photos are an opportunity to break it down into small anecdotal moments.  I will add stories to the photo pages over time.