Labor Day Weekend

Heron Bend

Moments of Zen

Phyllis Wyeth Tribute: James Wyeth at the Farnsworth

Rockland Maine's Farnsworth Art Museum and Wyeth Center has an exhibition of Jamie Wyeth's paintings celebrating his wife Phyllis Mills Wyeth who died in January of this year.  The Farnsworth website introduces it this way:

From the late 1960s onward, Phyllis Mills Wyeth (November 13, 1940 – January 14, 2019) was a muse to her husband, artist Jamie Wyeth. The selection of paintings assembled in this exhibition are a memorial tribute and reflect Phyllis Wyeth’s vibrant spirit and love of nature, horses, and her ever-present dogs.

I have long felt a personal connection to Jamie Wyeth -  beginning with his now iconic posthumous portrait of John F. Kennedy (for whom his wife worked); by his fascination with the work of Rockwell Kent (whose house on Monhegan Island he bought and lived in); then by occasionally spotting his boat at Georges Harbor where his mother and father lived in the summers; and by his gift to my late friend Jeff Armstrong of a painting "High Idle to Monhegan", a thank you note for ferrying his (long disabled) wife to their Monhegan home when she had missed the last ferry.

Jamie's boat headed out from a visit with family to mother Betsy
on Benner Island, Georges Harbor, Maine on July 1, 2019

Rockwell Kent - Greenland

Up the Creek with a paddle

 

Touring the Overlooked Islands of New York City ; New York Magazine

Touring the Overlooked Islands of New York City: More than 30 islands lie beyond the familiar borders of New York City’s five boroughs — some are tar-covered towers of trash, others offer sanctuary to migratory birds (or to the dead). Here, a visual atlas of an urban archipelago.

https://imgs.nymag.com/videos/chimney_sweeps_lede.mp4

Windmill power

Mr President - Greenland is not for sale. But Denmark has a much better deal for you! Watch this. #dkgreen #dkpol pic.twitter.com/mlRwAVzVFg

— Ida Auken (@IdaAuken) August 20, 2019

Desperate Lark

Desperate Lark is the boat of the Vaughn family - owners of Seal Cove Boatyard, Horseshoe Cove, Brooksville, Maine - on the East Penobscot Bay.  Maynard Bray tells us about the 50 foot Nat Herreshoff designed and built in this article in WooodenBoat magazine.  It was modified in 1939 by L. Francis Herreshoff [to whom I am partial because he designed my boat, North River 2 - a Buzzards Bay 14].  The 14 is waterline length.]  In the fifties they started using length overall, which tells you less about the boat's performance than the waterline length does.  But you really want LOA, LWL, draft, displacement, sail area, etc. - which you will find HERE.

North River 2

East Penobscot Bay - Sophie and Eight Bells

Aboard Sophie with Royce Hoyle and Phil VanBuren

Safety First