Sailing Vessel SEUTE DEERN
by James Williamson
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Title
Sailing Vessel SEUTE DEERN
Artist
James Williamson
Medium
Painting - Watercolor
Description
Sail on, sail on, thou fearless ketch, where'er blows the welcome winds, exultation is the going of an inland soul out to sea, past the houses, past the headlands into deep eternity.
Excerpts from poetry by Thomas Moore and Emily Dickinson.
Sailing Vessel Seute Deern watercolor painting by artist James Williamson.
Artist James Williamson, ASMA
Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists
The Seute Deern, a ketch now operating as a training ship. The Seute Deern is a Baltic vessel. Used for fishing and as coastal freighters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the ketch carried fore-and-aft sails and had a crew of between four and eight men.
Gaff: A wooden spar used to extend the heads of fore-and-aft sails that are not set on stays.
Gaff-Topsail: A triangular or quadrilateral sail, the head of which is extended on a small gaff that hoists on the topmast.
Gaff rig held sway over a large part of the sailing world for 250 years, was displaced by the bermudian rig with its superior windward performance, and is now enjoying a revival.
The skill of the 18th and 19th century shipbuilders is revealed in the intricacies of the standing and running rigging, the masts and spars, and the variety of sails, while each study of the various gaff rigged craft is a cameo of sailing history. Viewing this original painting reflect upon the vessels, the colorful personalities who built and sailed them, and the contemporary circumstances surrounding the decline of such boats as the pilot cutters, Essex smacks and Grand Banks fishing schooners.
During the past sixty years the rig of fore-and-aft sailing craft has been affected by two principal factors: the rapid decline and extinction of craft working under sail and the widespread adoption of the bermudian rig for yachts. The unquestionably superior windward performance of bermudian rig applied to a suitable hull form has resulted in almost blind acceptance of that rig as being best for yachts of almost all types, and for all purposes and conditions. There are many bermudian rigged yachts of great beauty, but many cruising yachtsmen prefer gaff rig for practical conditions of sail handling and lying more easily at anchor in a breeze. To others a well-built wooded craft of superior traditional design, with gaff rig, is also a thing of beauty, apart from its functional utility. Some are attracted by the rig's connection with working craft of the past.
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