Category: Culture: songs, stories, photography and art

Traditions and culture relevant to the world of real boating and sailors

Three Men in a Boat

Jerome K Jerome

Jerome K Jerome

It seems a little odd to post a link to an eBook of a classic Victorian English novel, but that’s what I’m going to do tonight.

Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat… To Say Nothing of the Dog describes a journey on the Thames by three young men and a small dog in a Thames skiff equipped for camping. It’s a classic of boating literature and of Victorian English life, and seems to me to be a prototype for every road movie I’ve ever seen. If you haven’t had occasion to read it yet, I strongly recommend it Continue reading “Three Men in a Boat”

Maritime Prints

RMS Mauretania Gravesend J Class

Maritime Prints MTBs

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I’ve been looking at sites offering marine prints for ages, but this is one that I’ve only just found.

Most sites selling marine art focus on contemporary artists, but the Maritime Prints approach is interestingly different: its emphasis is on prints made from paintings held in private collections, and which members of the general public are unlikely to see any other way.

Mainly the prints are naval, but as you will see from the thumbnails above, they also include yacht racing scenes, famous liners coming into port and so on. Well worth a look, I’d say.

http://www.maritimeprints.com

Would you like to see your project here?

Forest & Stream skiff

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Just about everyone who comes to these pages is some kind of boat nut, and I’m a boat nut too. I’d like to make this weblog as interesting and useful to us all as possible, and I want to fill it with news and photographs about:
•Projects about old boats, historic boats, traditionally-built boats, and traditionally-derived boats.
•Boating history and traditions.
•The skills involved, the craftsmen and the available training.
So, whether you own these kinds of boats, work on them, sell them, build them, paint or photograph them, write about their history, design them, run a club or organise events, or collect old songs and stories connected with them – if you would like to bring your projects to the attention of a wider public, email me now at gmatkin@gmail.com!