| #30 - John Lennon SIGNED with Drawings Meagan Jaye Log Book 1980! |
John Lennon, signed ’Megan Jaye’ log book,
1980 The Megan Jaye Captain’s logbook
annotated and signed by John Lennon in
1980. This episode in John Lennon’s life is
recognised as the point in time where John
regained his confidence during the ocean
voyage of the Megan Jaye to Bermuda from
Newport, Rhode Island. John Lennon had
always had a secret desire to sail the Atlantic
after his return from Cape Town where he
underwent a course in psychic alignment for
undertaking a journey that would eventually
turnout to put him under considerable risk.
When Lennon got back from Cape Town in
early June he was given the African oracle’s
finding but the only direction he could sail
with safety was southeast. This meant that his
destination had to be Bermuda. Yoko had
always been extremely protective over John’
s safety, always thinking that something
dreadful would befall John if he was set free,
now he was preparing himself to sail the
Atlantic ocean in a 40ft schooner past stormy
Cape Hatteras and into the Bermuda Triangle
with an unknown crew. On the morning of the
4 June 1980 John left for Newport, Rhode
Island, he took off in a Cessna with Tyler
Coneys and his cousins, Ellen and Kevin who
were to be additional members of the crew. A
burly, bearded man known as Captain Hank,
was preparing the Megan Jaye for the voyage
scheduled for the following morning. Not
since Lennon had boarded, Alan William’s
mini-van and gone off to Hamburg, had
Lennon taken such an exciting leap into the
unknown. He would be alone among
strangers in a wild sea and was about to take
the greatest risk, a risk that he had spent his
whole life avoiding. John was about to fulfill
one of his most cherished childhood fantasy,
the great dream of going off to sea just as his
father and grandfather had done before him.
What happens next is inevitable, the ship ran
into stormy seas and eventually a tempest.
One after another the crew were
incapacitated by sickness. During the storm
the captain, incapacitated himself, ordered
the cook to take the big knurled wheel and
hold her steady. John standing on the deck in
his yellow waterproof lashed to the rails of
the wheelhouse like Ahab strapped to the
whale, he was petrified at the shear force
driving the ship into the waves with spray
stinging his face and streaming down over
his glasses. After 15 minutes of this powerful
experience, Lennon began to feel his
courage rising, it was just like going on
stage, at first you panic and then your ready
to throw up your guts but once you got out
there and start doing your stuff you forget
your fears and you got high on your
performance.
Now, as the sea rose before him, Lennon
shouted back in defiance, singing shanties,
sailor’s songs and old ballads he had heard
in Liverpool. The experience was life
changing for John Lennon and after safely
arriving in Bermuda on the 11 June 1980 he
inscribes in the logbook . Dear Megan there
is no place like no where (TC 1980)? Hank
love John Lennon with a doodle of himself
the Megan Jaye and the sunset, the page is
also inscribed by Captain Hank, Grace and
Larry William’s. Tyler, Ellen and Kevin Coney
have also signed with descriptions in the
book as well.
The importance of the Megan Jaye
experience cannot be emphasised too
strongly after several years of lack of
confidence and no recording this experience
not only gave John his confidence back but
also inspired him to write again the outcome
being John’s final recording Double Fantasy.
Published magazine and articles have now
been written about this log book.It is Truly a
Piece of History in the Final Stage of John’s
life!
1980 The Megan Jaye Captain’s logbook
annotated and signed by John Lennon in
1980. This episode in John Lennon’s life is
recognised as the point in time where John
regained his confidence during the ocean
voyage of the Megan Jaye to Bermuda from
Newport, Rhode Island. John Lennon had
always had a secret desire to sail the Atlantic
after his return from Cape Town where he
underwent a course in psychic alignment for
undertaking a journey that would eventually
turnout to put him under considerable risk.
When Lennon got back from Cape Town in
early June he was given the African oracle’s
finding but the only direction he could sail
with safety was southeast. This meant that his
destination had to be Bermuda. Yoko had
always been extremely protective over John’
s safety, always thinking that something
dreadful would befall John if he was set free,
now he was preparing himself to sail the
Atlantic ocean in a 40ft schooner past stormy
Cape Hatteras and into the Bermuda Triangle
with an unknown crew. On the morning of the
4 June 1980 John left for Newport, Rhode
Island, he took off in a Cessna with Tyler
Coneys and his cousins, Ellen and Kevin who
were to be additional members of the crew. A
burly, bearded man known as Captain Hank,
was preparing the Megan Jaye for the voyage
scheduled for the following morning. Not
since Lennon had boarded, Alan William’s
mini-van and gone off to Hamburg, had
Lennon taken such an exciting leap into the
unknown. He would be alone among
strangers in a wild sea and was about to take
the greatest risk, a risk that he had spent his
whole life avoiding. John was about to fulfill
one of his most cherished childhood fantasy,
the great dream of going off to sea just as his
father and grandfather had done before him.
What happens next is inevitable, the ship ran
into stormy seas and eventually a tempest.
One after another the crew were
incapacitated by sickness. During the storm
the captain, incapacitated himself, ordered
the cook to take the big knurled wheel and
hold her steady. John standing on the deck in
his yellow waterproof lashed to the rails of
the wheelhouse like Ahab strapped to the
whale, he was petrified at the shear force
driving the ship into the waves with spray
stinging his face and streaming down over
his glasses. After 15 minutes of this powerful
experience, Lennon began to feel his
courage rising, it was just like going on
stage, at first you panic and then your ready
to throw up your guts but once you got out
there and start doing your stuff you forget
your fears and you got high on your
performance.
Now, as the sea rose before him, Lennon
shouted back in defiance, singing shanties,
sailor’s songs and old ballads he had heard
in Liverpool. The experience was life
changing for John Lennon and after safely
arriving in Bermuda on the 11 June 1980 he
inscribes in the logbook . Dear Megan there
is no place like no where (TC 1980)? Hank
love John Lennon with a doodle of himself
the Megan Jaye and the sunset, the page is
also inscribed by Captain Hank, Grace and
Larry William’s. Tyler, Ellen and Kevin Coney
have also signed with descriptions in the
book as well.
The importance of the Megan Jaye
experience cannot be emphasised too
strongly after several years of lack of
confidence and no recording this experience
not only gave John his confidence back but
also inspired him to write again the outcome
being John’s final recording Double Fantasy.
Published magazine and articles have now
been written about this log book.It is Truly a
Piece of History in the Final Stage of John’s
life!