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The painting changed my mind, my paintings often ‘speak’ to me. I wasn’t going to show this painting again until it was completed.

Az ‘tiz, there have been so many changes and will be so many more since it was last shown, it begs to be given more airtime so ‘eertiz.

Racehorse progress 08.11.17

A new marine painting,  75 x 100 cms (29.5″ x 39″), Oils, available.

Conceived as closely as possible, from the ship’s log book, 17 th September 1773

Insight into detail; Many more changes to follow, we, that is Mr. Peter Goodwin, naval author with 17 books to his credit, and I have passed many hours discussing how this painting will appear.

Racehorse progress, detail 08.11.17

Most recently, from my ‘phone call working notes about this painting:

The following brief list, a page from a notebook written while in conversation with the distinguished naval author Mr. Peter Goodwin,  will be gobbledegook to landsmen however, it’s charm is expressed in the obvious care and passion for fine detail where appropriate, with this one begins to appreciate why the M D of Rochay Elite said upon viewing “The Nelson and Trafalgar Collection” at the Trafalgar Soiree (Army & Navy Club, St James, Pall Mall, London) “The new Turner”.

gammoning, add preventer gammoning, man working other side, three turns in place, coil on deck, his arm over bowsprit.

Mast colours, varnished

Fish davit, add span shackle to deck f’ard of Belfery, block to be same size as davit.

Add main topmast stays’l and rigging.

Add steering sail irons to tops’l spares, ditto lower yards plus varnished booms.

Commission pennant, tied to pt side shroud, 15 ‘, frayed end.

Man aloft on d shrouds, fore topmast, checking topsail lifts, check where block hanging from cross trees.

Cross trees slightly larger.

Sharpen up topmast capping (square shapes.

Show two anchors pt side

Add spritsail yard (37’ 1 1/2 “) & rigging, sail harbour stowed.

Double size of speaking trumpet.

Tackle for mainstay for boats made good on a ringbolt midships.

One crew member with Black face, representing Gustav Weston, man with rope on fore deck

St’bd inboard bulwarks dull red not blue.

Cat head double block with a tight line on hook securing it to a knight head or shroud.

Chimney? Maybe if it shows, a stump, sealed.

Add reef tackle pennants for topsails

Add Fore mast shrouds, backstays, braces, tacks and sheets, etc

Add topping lift for gaff.

I’ve become aware that public interest in Nelson and Trafalgar will last as long as the English language and western culture, their fame will echo down history for at least as long and there is a western civilisation.

I was slow to realise my authoritative ‘Nelson and Trafalgar Collection’ have become a widely admired, significant part of that story.

Currently, interest is being much boosted by Captain Mal Nicholson with his reproduction HMS Pickle and a flair for having fun, this is the same HMS Pickle that retraced the historic voyage in 1805 of the Trafalgar messenger for the 200 th anniversary of Trafalgar and in November 2017 was invited by the Royal Navy to Portsmouth for Pickle Night, the beginning of a special relationship between this “Pickle” and the very famous HMS Victory.

Her Captain/owner Mal Nicholson. is sailing Pickle west along the South coast for an history rendez-vous with HMS Victory, at the invitation of the Royal Navy for ‘Pickle Night’, 4 th November, to berth as near as possible to the historic flagship HMS Victory.