Abstract
‘12 Hours Before the Mast’ takes on the phenomenon—and the phenomenology—of being (all) at sea. Flowing from and around the illynxial experience of open-water yachting off the coast of Sydney, Australia, the essay proposes that sailing can be understood in terms of a triadic relationship between embodiment, technology and environment, any of those terms at any moment mediating the other two. In sailing in such circumstances, being-in-the-world emerges from a thick, chiasmatic co-extensivity with the fluid materiality of sea and air, from and through horizons encountered in their ineffability and blurredness. All this is undergirded by the physical, emotional and technical limits (and possibilities) of embodiment under duress, engaged in a mood of anxious playfulness, of playful anxiety.
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