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Stormy studio seas

Today, waiting on Peter Goodwin’s comments on the Racehorse painting progress.

Racehorse 10.08.17
Racehorse 10.08.17
Racehorse as shown was in the North Sea, 17 Sept 1777.
She shipped a number of big waves prior to the moment of my painting, which will show men struggling to retighten the bow sprit (jib sprit was an old term) gammoning. 

Chupra 10.08.17
Chupra 10.08.17

One of the several waves that climbed aboard flooded her waist, smashed all but one of her boats; several boats broke loose, a boat smashed the pump and so ‘froth’.
Her commander fely obliged to jettison two of her guns to lighten ship.
By the way, HMS Pickle also jettisioned guns during a storm, having sprung a leak, on her famous voyage to England with the momentous Trafalgar news.

I Have Urgent Dispatches (available as a print, signed, numbered)
I Have Urgent Dispatches (available as a print, signed, numbered)
Fortunately Racehorse and her companion ship (HMS Carcass, out of sight at the time) had been specially fitted with solid bulkheads to their foc’sle a quarter deck, an early form of ‘compartmentalisation’, to stop flooding below decks. You can see the quarter deck bulkhead has been added to the latests update of this new painting.
 
I’ll be starting a new Saint Emilion painting and working on M V Chupra.
 
I’m expecting a visitor for the week end, a sailing mate, which means I’ll have to do a noshshop to find somethings tasty to go with a few of my best wines.
Wishing you all a fine week end, calmer than these two paintings show, and shabbat shalom.