This is "Peers Fancy" passing the Fisheries Museum wharf last summer. She will be among them. Admission to all the tall ships is $3 and $5 more gets you into the extensive Fisheries Museum exhibition halls and lets you tour two historic fishing vessels tied up at dockside. For all the details go the The Fisheries Museum Tall Ship Pages.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
The Tall Ships Visit Lunenburg, July 17 & 18
This is "Peers Fancy" passing the Fisheries Museum wharf last summer. She will be among them. Admission to all the tall ships is $3 and $5 more gets you into the extensive Fisheries Museum exhibition halls and lets you tour two historic fishing vessels tied up at dockside. For all the details go the The Fisheries Museum Tall Ship Pages.
Monday, July 9, 2007
A painting started just as Picton Castle was departing
Completed just before the Picton Castle berthed (see below). twenty by twenty four inches. Winter scene at Stonehurst, a place where the Lunenburg peninsula finally ends. These buildings are actually on a small rocky island accessed by a bridge seen at middle right. The buildings were once painted yellow for the sake of a motion picture being filmed in the area. The owners were not keen on the new colour and have since reverted to something approaching a faded white. I decided to stick with the more lively scheme.
Picton Castle with sails set.
Actually they are partially reefed. Again shot from the studio window. At this point reunion and unloading are still going on at dockside.
Picton Castle seen from the Governmnet Wharf
That is the "Lady Janet" in the foreground, left. Note the Picton Castle's new paint job created for her role in the TV series "Pirate Masters".At this point sailors were in the rigging lowering the sails so that they could dry in the sun. First warm sunny day in some time, but rain predicted for this afternoon.
The Picton Castle Docks
A small group of relatives and friends are at hand to greet her. The schooner "Eastern Star" bearing tourists greets her on her tour of the harbour.
The Picton Castle Last November
Another view from my studio window, just before this square rigger departed for the West Indies. As some of you may know, misfortune overtook her not far from Lunenburg.It snowed the day she left and not many people were on hand to view the departure. Ruth did brave harsh winds and brought back a complete photo journal of that leave-taking
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