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Sunday Sailing

Seascapes By Caspar David Friedrich.

The Monk By The Sea
Location: Alte Nationalgalerie
Dimensions: 3' 7" x 5' 8" (1.10 m x 1.72 m)
Created: 1808–1810 | Media: Oil paint

Sea Shore in Moonlight (Küste bei Mondschein)
Location: Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Dimensions: 134 × 169 cm.
Created: 1835–36. | Media: Oil paint.

Moonrise Over the Sea (Mondaufgang am Meer)
Location: Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
Dimensions: 55 × 71 cm.
Created: 1822 | Media: Oil paint

The Stages of Life (Die Lebensstufen)
Location: Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig
Dimensions: 72.5 cm × 94 cm (28.5 in × 37 in)
Created: 1835 | Media: Oil Paint

Caspar David Friedrich was born in Greifswald, Swedish Pomerania, on the Baltic Sea. He was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. Friedrich is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. His primary interest as an artist was the contemplation of nature, and his often symbolic and anti-classical work seeks to convey a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's paintings characteristically set a human presence in diminished perspective amid expansive landscapes, reducing the figures to a scale that, according to the art historian Christopher John Murray, directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension."

Old Sail Tech Meets New. [Sailing Photo Of The Day]

Amerigo Vespucci, meet the Maltese Falcon. Both ships are in Genoa for the 52nd annual boat show.

credit for the top photo: Ansa/Zennaro

Wearing Of The Green.

Even though the Alexader Humbodlt is a German ship; she loves wearing the green.

Tall Ships.

I wonder if their sailors wear helmets?
That's a big N-O.

Whoosh!

Now imagine going around Cape Horn.

How To Dock A Tall Ship.

No doubt about Baba Looey, I do the thinnin' around here.
Posted here, there, around the block and at the gin joint.

Anyone For Some Tea? [Sailing Video]

I think I'll just pop belowdecks and boil up a kettle.
Please try not to spill.

Thanks to Capt. Mike!

Wednesday (Almost) Wreck.

The Fryderyk Chopin lost both her masts when she was hit by gale-force winds about 100 miles southwest of the English coast on Friday. The ship, which is used to train young sailors, was towed into Falmouth harbour Monday.

Via Conjuminando, who got it from .sNIPEOUT.., who got if from la Rupubblica.

Wreck On Wednesday.

What happens when you try to enter a harbor during a storm?



Since you're lucky, you end up on the beach as a local tourist attraction. 

Via Conjuminando and handbreit.

Sailing Photo Of The Day. "The Golden Hind." [For The Tillerman]

The Golden Hind must have been a bear of a ship to sail up the California coast. Galleons don't sail well to weather.

Sails 6, 5 square sails and lateen

Hull: wooden
Hull dimensions:

Length:
o Overall: 120 ft (36.5 m)
o Hull: 102 ft (31 m)
o Waterline: 75 ft (23 m)
Breadth: 22 ft (6.7 m)
Depth: 13.5 ft (4.1 m)
Displacement: 300 tons (305 tonnes)
Beam: 20 ft (6 m)
Height of mainmast: 92 ft (27 m)
Sail area: 4150 sq ft (386 m²)
Speed (sail): 8 knots (15 km/h)
Steering: Drake used a pole attached to the rudder called a "whip staff".
Capstan: used for hauling up the anchor, located in the armoury and gun deck

Tall Ships A Sailin.

The Schooner Virginia sailing with the Pride of Baltimore II from Charleston to Richmond, May 2007.
Picture by Nate Rogers/Jim Whipple.

The Wearing Of The Green. Everyone Is Irish Today.

The tall ship Alexander von Humboldt.



A sailing canoe from Honduras.

Happy Naomh Pádraig's (St. Patrick's) Day!