Schooner HERITAGE
by James Williamson
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24.000 x 18.000 inches
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Title
Schooner HERITAGE
Artist
James Williamson
Medium
Painting - Watercolor
Description
Come o'er the sea, come wherever the wild wind blows, was not the sea made for the free?
Excerpt from a poem by Sir Thomas Moore.
Schooner HERITAGE watercolor painting by artist James Williamson.
Artist James Williamson, ASMA
Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists
Schooner Heritage is jamming the wind. The business of operating a large sailboat requires long hours of hard work but who would trade this job for anything?
A lovely lady of uncertain origin, fast and easy to handle, the schooner has won the hearts of seafarers plying rock bound coasts and braving the banks. Sails abaft the masts let these vessels lie close to the wind and tack quickly through narrow waters.
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 name of 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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Pavel Filatov
Great!
James Williamson replied:
Pavel: Thank you for your positive comment. And your photography is first class. Excellent images. How are things in Siberia. I was in the Air Firce and stationed in Iceland for one year in 'my youth'. And for the first time I met Russian sailors. And realized they were just like me! Keep up the exceptional photography. Jim