MARINE ARTISTS

Thanks, Im on a sort of mend. Lotsa new antibiotics seem to assert a certain "placebo effect". I think my immune system is still pretty strong for an older coot.

Im actually liking the taste of won ton soup

Good news, but remember.....

No cigarettes.
No whisky.

Wild wild women optional.

FM.......I've Just been posting this on one of the Aussie threads, but I thought I'd stop by and drop anchor with it here as well, because I know it will cause you to salivate somewhat, being about a boat AND science.

My lad has just been told that he is going on one of the week long jaunts on this beauty in the near future, and so we are furiously knitting warm underwear in preparation.

Tasman Sea, late Autumn = Cold and rough, apparently.

RV Investigator

lots of packet communication balls up top. This a research ship?.

Its kind of sleek for an RV trawler so I assume its for "getting on station" really fast. I remember being on an RV years ago called "The RV Eastward" it too, was built like a destroyer and was quite fast. BUT, when we got on station the ship became a real "Barf Bucket"

EVEN with ALL my years in piloting my own little boat , I have a middle ear condition that I got when I was blown up . SO, whenever I was a passenger on a bigger RV boat, I always get seasick for a coupla days. Hope your son isnt so affected. "Getting sea legs" has always been a mjor task for me, but I still love the sea.

Thats one of the reasons I will NEVER go on an ocean cruise unless Im driving and can control my reference horizon.

Yes, definitely a boffin ship. The blue link takes you to their blog page and there is a lot of mention re. dropping various data recording buoys, even one which has automatically opening and closing bottles on the way down, to take samples at different depths.
My offspring is making up the numbers when he goes, as the ship doesn't yet have a license to carry and use a fluoroscope yet (isotope carrying license, apparently) so he will be simply presenting his data so far, and basically letting the other boffins know how it is all going. He will then muck in with anything that needs doing, and hopefully do a bit of contact building for the future.
On the few occasions I've actually been at sea with him, he seems pretty good at holding down his breakfast, but a large ferry on the Channel or Bay of Biscay is a bit different to a technologically advanced bucket on the Tasman Sea.

Still, all very good character building stuff.

Neat specs on that ship. everything seems "built in" nice.
I was on one of the GLOMAR ships years ago and was amazed at how they kept crap all blended into the sidewalls of the ship. Neat, lots more room .
Boffin--another name for Geek eh?

Turing was a boffin. So was Barnes-Wallis.

Geeks came along a lot later, and usually have acne.


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boffin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boffin

I secretly regard farmerman as a bit of a boffin, but don't tell him.

"She longed for freedom as she saw a ship leave the harbour, the sails spread to the wind, the spirit free and unfettered, waiting to rise from its enforced seclusion.
To mix with things like the wind, the sea and the skies. Become part of these things, and move away, like a silent phantom across the face of the sea."
Daphne DuMaurier.





Lawks-a-mercy, I've gorn all maritime I 'ave.

sails are in terrible need of a power washing. They are absolutely filthy. AND why hasnt someone sewn up those cannon shot holes. We must have discipline here!!

In honor of his lordship's return I have decided to try to resurrect this thred devoted to marine art

My next contribution is a Winslow Homer entitled "THE FOG WARNING"



Pretty neat for a guy who was essentially self taught

Emanuel A. Petersen 1894-1948. A Dane who painted many paintings from Greenland
This one shows a ship arriving in North Greenland

makes you feel like winter is here.

Heresa Rockwell Kent study of lobstermen along the Monhegan Promontory.

COULD SOMEONE PLEAAE RESIZE THIS? My browser wont let me.

Originally trained as a theater-decoration painter, and later employed as a Marine painter at the Royal Porcelain Factory of Denmark, it was hard to imagine that Emanuel A. Petersen (1894-1948) would become such a popular portrayer of Greenland.
“… From 1921 to 1935, Emanuel A. Petersen spent a total of six years traveling through most of the inhabited parts of Greenland. The travels were intended to provide him with material for his portrayal of the Greenlandic way of life, which was rapidly changing due to the Danish influence on the Greenlandic society.

His first or one of his first exhebitions was in Stockholm where noone was interested in Greenland. The Danish Club in Stockholm convinced some of its members to buy his paintings.

I resized it and it looked like crap.
Sorry

the ill-fated M-1 sub class 1918

I had to look up the M-1, 2 nd 3. Interesting boats.

Apparently that 12" deck gun was a no no after WWI.

Ive not seen many marine paintings here the subjects were subs, other than Carl Evers.

Heres Carl Evers pinting s a memorial of the USS Thresher

A summerday by Michael Ancher one of the Danish Skagen painters