What’s wrong with this picture?

[Kermit]

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Which way is the wind blowing?
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Which way is the boat facing?
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What would @Don Guillette say?

This is on the wall at our favorite Mexican restaurant near the sailing club. At least they can cook!

 

[uncledom]

that's how you hang your spinnaker out to dry, on the lee side of the sails. this is what you do after you hour glass it and dunk it.

 

[Captain Larry-DH]

The person who painted that might have one of these https://guzzlebuddy.com/

 

[kloudie1]

Ohhhh that is the famous Whomper sail from the movie!

 

[jssailem]

It is a painting not a photograph. So we must allow for Artistic license.

The freedom of artists to change facts in order to make a story, painting, etc. more interesting or beautiful.​

Besides, if you have a few more Corona’s or Modelo’s will you even see the picture on the wall?

 

[Will Gilmore]

Which way is the wind blowing?

It looks like she's sailing on a 'head reach'. That's where the wind is coming from the direction of the masthead, above. One of the hardest tacks to sail.

Which way is the boat facing?

I believe that boat is a Mexican Sausalito (little sausage) they sail ambidextrously.

What would @Don Guillette say?

That's an existential enigma. You never know until it happens.

-Will (Dragonfly)

 

[Don Guillette]

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Which way is the wind blowing?
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Which way is the boat facing?
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What would @Don Guillette say?

This is on the wall at our favorite Mexican restaurant near the sailing club. At least they can cook!

There are a number of sailboats like this in existence - they were designed by a committee in the US Congress!!

 

[Claude L.-Auger]

An artist rendition of a good sailor caught in ''la trumba turista'', a little known mexican whirlwind that puts you in deep s... unless you're a phenomenal sailor that can deploy all sails for every wind direction...at once !

 

[Sailavie1]

I think it’s a Picasso before he switched to painting faces.

 

[LeslieTroyer]

My pet peeve is when they show the boat downwind and the flags are streaming aft.

 

[Leeward Rail]

I have a painted tile in my bathroom that i picked up near Tulum years ago. I liked the tile but wanted him to add a sailboat to the scene. It looks like a sailboat if you barely know what a sailboat is like. Imo it looks like an east cardinal mark. Not one person has mentioned/noticed though.

 

[Kermit]

There are a number of sailboats like this in existence - they were designed by a committee in the US Congress!!

 

[JamesG161]

Mexican restaurant near the sailing club

You guys don't get it!!
That is a picture of a...

Scared Mexican Sailor

Sailing on a Lake outside the city of Pueblo, Mexico.

with the Volcano Popocatépetl erupting in the background.

Last eruption in December 2018

Note the colors of the spinnaker are same as Mexican Flag.

The Sailor is under motor power hauling azz.

Andale! Andale! Arriba! Arriba! Yii-hah! ...says Speedy Gonzales

Jaime...

 

[kloudie1]

@Don Guillette Laughing.. In the picture, The boat appears to have two back ends (sterns) Just as the US Congress where the ratio of, uuuuhhhh, back ends to people is past 1:1..

 

[Ron20324]

I think it is pretty obvious the guy person went agound. He slacked the jib tack to backwind it, hoisted the spinnaker off the stern so all together the wind blew him backwards. /// A fellow in my sailing club bought a new spinnaker. He arranged a photographer to come out to take a nice picture. Trouble was, on the designated day, there was no wind. Skipper put her in reverse and filled the sail to get the picture.