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Monet’s paintings of French rowing and sailing boats, and the sea

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Monet’s paintings of traditional French rowing and sailing boats

French painter Monet was clearly fascinated by both boats and the sea’s ever-changing mood and light

Monet’s paintings of traditional French rowing and sailing boats Monet’s paintings of traditional French rowing and sailing boats Monet’s paintings of traditional French rowing and sailing boats

Monet’s paintings of traditional French rowing and sailing boats Monet’s paintings of traditional French rowing and sailing boats Monet’s paintings of traditional French rowing and sailing boats

Monet’s paintings of traditional French rowing and sailing boats Monet’s paintings of traditional French rowing and sailing boats Monet’s paintings of traditional French rowing and sailing boats

Monet’s paintings of traditional French rowing and sailing boats Monet’s paintings of traditional French rowing and sailing boats

I’ve never been a great fan of the French painter Monet – I’ve often thought his work to be somehow a little unsatisfactory and even chocolate-boxy. But these images sent by my friend Ed have pretty well changed my mind. It’s difficult not to like the work of a painter so obviously fascinated by both sailing and rowing boats, but also by the moods of the sea and the light that plays upon it. Click on the images and decide for yourself…

Thanks Ed, for so painlessly changing my point of view!

Amazon offers books of Monet prints, but the one I’d recommend is the one published in conjunction with a Tate Gallery exhibition of paintings by Turner, Whistler and Monet. I went to the show, and at the time I was particularly bowled over by both the Whistler and Monet paintings of the River Thames and its ships, boats, lighters and barges of the time. And, of course, the famous Turners are even more mind-blowing in real life…

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The Royal Navy’s small sailing craft of 1937

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Naval 30ft gig – the RN’s fastest service boat under sail in 1937

These pages describing the Navy’s small sailing craft and how to sail them come from the Admiralty’s Manual of Seamanship, dated 1937. Many of them will be familiar to ex-Naval personnel, and to those who worked in boat and ship building in years gone by.

There’s some fascinating stuff here, including the information that the lugger was the fastest small sailing boat that the Navy had in those days – and that its rig was pretty well identical to Cornish luggers from up to 100 years before. There’s also some sail dimension information that people who work with traditional boats might find useful and interesting today, and instructions on sailing that still seem relevant, at least to me.

There are other chapters on the construction and the naming of parts of small boats, so if this post proves popular, I’ll put that material up at some point.

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