sparks appreciation thread.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Dec 21, 2020 4:42 am

sparks wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 4:26 am No. I'd remember!

OK, have another one then:

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Mon Dec 21, 2020 4:23 pm

Outstanding!

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Dec 22, 2020 12:46 am

Cobbler, Isle Au Haut, Eastern Penobscot Bay, Maine, ca. 1896

This lantern slide features a cobbler and his shop, a small sailboat bedecked with signs and advertisements. The cobbler sits toward the bow with a shoe in his lap. The boat is tied to the shore (out of scene) and has a small dingy tied to the port-side.

https://www.historicnewengland.org/expl ... sn/188162/

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 1:31 am

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Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sat Dec 26, 2020 12:09 am

Claude Monet, Falaises et voiliers à Pourville (Cliffs and sailboats at Pourville), 1882.

Claude Monet, Promenade sur la falaise, Pourville (Cliff walk at Pourville), 1882.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun Dec 27, 2020 12:06 am

NSFW:

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun Dec 27, 2020 11:06 pm

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Dec 29, 2020 4:08 am

izittrue · Post by **izittrue** » Tue Dec 29, 2020 8:57 pm

May I have that on my appreciation thread ?

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed Dec 30, 2020 1:36 am

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu Dec 31, 2020 2:16 am

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu Dec 31, 2020 11:39 pm

More pics: https://www.navisyachts.com/20200413105 ... storm.html

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Fri Jan 01, 2021 11:31 pm

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sparks · Post by **sparks** » Fri Jan 08, 2021 1:17 am

Weapons grade gorgeous.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sat Jan 09, 2021 1:52 am

More pics, story & video about Marigold: http://www.classicyacht.tv/journal/2017 ... g-marigold

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun Jan 10, 2021 12:05 am

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Jan 11, 2021 4:10 am

~ the first three minutes, the rest is tourism. Beware, annoying music.

Jolie Brise: A legend sails the Atlantic

For decades, Jolie Brise has been sailed and maintained by pupils from Dauntsey's School. Clare McComb finds out about their most recent passage - 10,000 miles across the Atlantic and back

When Jolie Brise and the students of Dauntsey’s School in landlocked Wiltshire go transatlantic,  the planning  starts very early on, and for good reason.

The tall ship’s long-time skipper Toby Marris knows only too well how different individual crossings can be.

In 2009, during the last leg  of the Tall Ships Atlantic Challenge, Jolie Brise  lost her topmast in 55 knots of wind, mid-ocean.

They had broken the topmast before, in the Mediterranean, but that was in fairly placid waters; this North Atlantic storm was very different.

Coming down a large breaking wave touching 15 knots  on the surf, the helm lost control, they gybed, the mainsail preventer pulled the deck fitting out and  the boom whipped through the backstay, popping 40ft of topmast off.

No one panicked, instructions were given – the Dauntsey’s students got stuck in. That mess of rigging took nearly 14 hours to sort out, after which Jolie Brise continued her race, without the topmast.

For Toby, in 2009, the topmast was a situational problem, not a danger. He knows his ship.

In  the eight years since, technology has moved on massively. In 2009, he and mate Adam Seager worked with the computer screen in layers of cling film, trying to plot different routes with chinagraph over the GRIB files and weather information sent to them from Chris Tibbs, giving them different scenarios on each layer.

Now Adrena, PredictWind and the B&G plotter learn Jolie Brise’s polars and crunch the algorithms.

https://www.yachtingmonthly.com/cruisin ... hool-65925 for the rest.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Jan 12, 2021 3:26 am

robinson2 · Post by **robinson2** » Tue Jan 12, 2021 4:34 pm

This is my favorite topic

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Tue Jan 12, 2021 5:38 pm

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This one may have been previously posted... Worthy of a repeat performance.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Jan 12, 2021 11:51 pm

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu Jan 14, 2021 12:03 am

izittrue · Post by **izittrue** » Thu Jan 14, 2021 3:09 am

Sparks is getting much more appreciation than me. Hmm

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Thu Jan 14, 2021 11:59 am

Nearly naked red haired women:. It's universal, like health care.

Wait....
What?

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Fri Jan 15, 2021 2:12 am

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Fri Jan 15, 2021 11:45 pm

NSFW:

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Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Jan 18, 2021 9:49 pm

Salem Harbor Fitz Hugh Lane, 1853.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Jan 19, 2021 11:10 pm

La Bella Simonetta [Vespucci], tempera on panel by (presumably) Sandro Botticelli, circa 1480-1485.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed Jan 20, 2021 10:48 pm

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu Jan 21, 2021 10:38 pm