With a Fair Wind
by James Williamson
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24.000 x 18.000 inches
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Title
With a Fair Wind
Artist
James Williamson
Medium
Painting - Watercolor
Description
WITH A FAIR WIND watercolor painting by artist James Williamson.
Artist James Williamson, ASMA
Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists
With a fair wind and a trim bone in her teeth, the KATIE sails from Fowey. The carefully patched single topsail was her characteristic. Early in the 1930s the Old Man had sent down the upper topsail yard. Less upstairs work! was his comment. Once too the KATIE had an attractive figurehead, but this was lost in a collision. Soon, as she continues under sail, the flying jib will be hoisted.
TOPSAIL SCHOONER The topsail schooner has two or more masts of the same height or increasing in height as they move aft, and all rigged with fore-and-aft sails. It is the square sails set on the fore topmast that make her a topsail schooner; not the triangular fore-and-aft topsails set over the gaff sails. The advantage of such a rig is that the square topsails provide additional driving power when the wind is favorable; when working close to the wind and maneuvering in tight areas, the crew can douse them completely and use only the for-and-aft sails.
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 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.
BARKENTINE 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.
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