Classic Sail
by James Williamson
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24.000 x 18.000 inches
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Title
Classic Sail
Artist
James Williamson
Medium
Painting - Watercolor
Description
CLASSIC SAIL watercolor painting by artist James Williamson.
Artist James Williamson, ASMA
Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists
WILHELM PIECK Sailing in the foreground, the ship is one of the last true brigantines ever to be built and one of the very few continuing to sail. This racy type of sailing ship was much used by 19th century smugglers. It goes without saying that it was equally popular with the authorities for coastal patrol. Since a brigantine needs only a small crew for sail handling, plenty of hands could be spared for manning the guns.
The ship is named after the first president of East Germany. The deckhouse on the main deck houses mainly the galley, apart from a number of smaller storerooms. On the raised quarterdeck, forward of the chartroom, there is the main steering wheel and the compass. The anchors are handled by means of the capstan on the forecastle. The ship carries two tenders slung in davits. The main staysail is boomed. For her training voyages the brigantine cruises mainly in the Baltic Sea.
BARKENTINE Sailing in the background, A barkentine must have at least three masts, the foremast rigged only with square sails, the remaining masts with fore-and-aft sails. The definition says it all. The rules for classification of rigs and boat types have many modifiers, disclaimers, and exceptions.
SCHOONER The basic two-masted schooner rig may be described as a purely fore and aft rig having a single headsail, gaff foresail (usually with a boom), and a gaff and boom mainsail wide in the foot and generally taller than the foresail. Other sails may be set: a jib or jibs; jib topsail; gaff topsails; a topmast staysail; and square fore topsails; without altering the type of name schooner. More masts may be added, three being common in Europe and between four and five in America, where six or seven masters were also built. Schooners were built for cargo carrying, fishing, pilot services, as minor warships, privateersmen, for surveying, smuggling and slave carrying.
The commonly quoted reference to the origin of the schooner is that it was devised at Glouster, Massachusetts, about 1713 by Andrew Robinson in a vessel at whose launch a spectator cried Oh, how she schoons and of course Captain Robinson instantly replied a schooner let her be! There is no word schoon in English and as the account was written on oral evidence in 1790 it seems quite improbable. It may be true, but extremely doubtful, that Robinson built the first schooner-rigged craft in North America, but she was certainly antedated by vast numbers of English and Dutch craft which were not then named schooners but had previously developed the rig, which was probably taken to America by colonists from those countries.
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