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The Great Southern Ocean

With Pete Goss, a wonderful man, together designing “Spirit of Mystery. He said to me “Gordon it’s an honour to meet you” ~ while I was saying thank you I was thinking err no. Pete it is an honour to meet YOU sir ! 

Pete Goss
With Pete Goss in Spirit of Mystery

Of his painting “Spirit of Mystery” he said many memorable things including ” it has everything except the noise which is unforgettable”.

Spirit of Mystery
Spirit of Mystery in the Southern Ocean

I would like to paint another Southern Ocean scene, but would anyone buy it? Probably no one… I’d like to paint the way the late great Alex Hurst who I knew well and loved my work described it to me, with a couples of big 4 master wind jammers in a storm, perhaps from the deck of one.
What do you think?
Maybe I’ll do something for the next Golden Globe race, if I’m asked, maybe?

Alex sailed in several of the last grain races, took photos, I wish I had kept his letters and photographed him in my studio; to late now, still, I have the vivid memories to refer to… 
Of Roaring Forties Pete Goss said, and no one knows the Great Southern Ocean better, for him ‘Roaring Forties’ summed it up well.


“Spirit of Mystery” 100 % a sailor’s painting, shows the Cornish lugger as described by Pete Goss, being hammered by a nasty cross sea. Pete said “it felt like the boat was being continually rammed by a car”.

Pete Goss’ press release put it: “The renowned marine artist Gordon Frickers has produced a painting that captures the epic voyage made by Westcountry sailor and adventurer Pete Goss MBE in 2008-2009 in the 37-foot long wooden boat Spirit of Mystery”.
You can discover more on 
http://www.frickers.co.uk/…/yachts-and-s…/spirit-of-mystery/