Wednesday Photoday, Art in Sailing

Oct 19, 2017
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O'Day 19 Littleton, NH
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I just finished this hatch board project and wanted to show out off. I'm particularly proud of it as one of my most ambitious. The hatch boards measure about 24" by 24" over all.
Please post your art or art that amazes you.

- Will (Dragonfly)
 

TomY

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Jun 22, 2004
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Alden 38' Challenger yawl Rockport Harbor
Unbelievable work, Will! And that is burned into the wood? It's beautiful.

Sailing, all aspects of it, is art!

I don't know the artist here, but the first owner of this boat was E.B. White. The boats name is FERN. What's the meaning of the spiders web on the hatch boards? That's all the clews you get. :)
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I don't know who owns this painting of my boat. Someone saw it online and sent me the jpeg. It's a painting from a photo the artist must have taken at least a decade ago. I know because I can date it by the black stain coming out of the exhaust pipe. I took that engine out and put another one in, over 10 years ago. The artist was (is) a realist to the end!
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Nov 30, 2015
1,340
Hunter 1978 H30 Cherubini, Treman Marina, Ithaca, NY
don't know the artist here, but the first owner of this boat was E.B. White. The boats name is FERN. What's the meaning of the spiders web on the hatch boards? That's all the clews you get. :)
Hey Tom, nice clews. Too easy to respond this early. I didn’t even have to look this up online. That seems a perfect adoration for EB White.
 
Oct 19, 2017
7,812
O'Day 19 Littleton, NH
Beautiful. How do you preserve it?
I use a water-based spar varnish called Ultra Gold. Suppose to have better UV protection than oil-based spar vanishes. Been on my kitchen counter top for 10 years, no issues.

- Will (Dragonfly)
 
Oct 19, 2017
7,812
O'Day 19 Littleton, NH
Tom,
You will never beable to show me enough images of your boat to satisfy.
I was raised on stories that give me the clews I need. I'm sure most SBO members will remember.

I'm always in awe of your boat. :clap:

- Will (Dragonfly)
 
Nov 30, 2015
1,340
Hunter 1978 H30 Cherubini, Treman Marina, Ithaca, NY
We have similar webs and spiders on our boat, but they continue to move!

Beautiful hatch board art work and fine painting too.
Hey Phil, yeah...us too. If I had that spider thing done to my hatch boards, I’d need to have the artist etch a pattern that looks like an arachnid squashed by a pair of Docksiders.
 
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Dec 29, 2008
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Treworgy 65' LOA Custom Steel Pilothouse Staysail Ketch St. Croix, Virgin Islands
Recent photo (but before Irma and Marie (now being referred to as “Irmarie”). I had just finished varnishing and polishing.

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