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(Bah. Flickr only permits three sets for free accounts. This does not help me stay organized.)
Okay. I have finished uploading the rest of the photos from Rock the Boat 2007. There are three sets. (Bah, I say, Flickr. Bah.) One contains all of the shots of Godspeed, and I think the shots of the shallop Explorer ended up in there, too. Another contains the many, many photos I took of Kalmar Nyckel, which is a truly spectacular ship, and whose flag kept playing coy every time I tried to get a shot of the stern gallery's carvings. The third is a combination of the schooner Virginia and the pungy schooner Lady Maryland.
You can find all three here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8556491@N07/
While I think that Kalmar Nyckel is gorgeous, I have to say it was Virginia that moved me the most. There was a revolution in ship design between the late 1600s and the late 1700s/early 1800s that is very clear when comparing KN and Virginia; you can see it in the smooth sweep of Virginia's decks, absent any protruding deck to slow the ship in its passage. As useful as those decks and the structures beneath them are (and as many times as I lean on them in the current![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
novel_in_90 project, which is now going by the working title of Satisfaction and Revenge), the fact is that after 1680 or so they were not seen much on the swifter ships.
It doesn't hurt that I'm still looking for a model for the two-masted sloop Satisfaction - yes, there's a reason the working title of the novel is what it is - and of all of these ships, Virginia came closest to the sail configuration I think my Satisfaction has to have for the waters she traveled.
(Go on, you naval types, attack the use of sloop to denote this two-masted ship. I know of what I speak. I am never more aware how pedantic I can be than when I am faced with someone else's pedantism. *g* And I will be happy to dance this dance with you, if only to bring light to my own decisions with regard to use of the term here, and in the novel.)
(And isn't it funny that LJ has no built-in mood icon for Belligerent? *g*)
Okay. I have finished uploading the rest of the photos from Rock the Boat 2007. There are three sets. (Bah, I say, Flickr. Bah.) One contains all of the shots of Godspeed, and I think the shots of the shallop Explorer ended up in there, too. Another contains the many, many photos I took of Kalmar Nyckel, which is a truly spectacular ship, and whose flag kept playing coy every time I tried to get a shot of the stern gallery's carvings. The third is a combination of the schooner Virginia and the pungy schooner Lady Maryland.
You can find all three here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8556491@N07/
While I think that Kalmar Nyckel is gorgeous, I have to say it was Virginia that moved me the most. There was a revolution in ship design between the late 1600s and the late 1700s/early 1800s that is very clear when comparing KN and Virginia; you can see it in the smooth sweep of Virginia's decks, absent any protruding deck to slow the ship in its passage. As useful as those decks and the structures beneath them are (and as many times as I lean on them in the current
novel_in_90 project, which is now going by the working title of Satisfaction and Revenge), the fact is that after 1680 or so they were not seen much on the swifter ships. It doesn't hurt that I'm still looking for a model for the two-masted sloop Satisfaction - yes, there's a reason the working title of the novel is what it is - and of all of these ships, Virginia came closest to the sail configuration I think my Satisfaction has to have for the waters she traveled.
(Go on, you naval types, attack the use of sloop to denote this two-masted ship. I know of what I speak. I am never more aware how pedantic I can be than when I am faced with someone else's pedantism. *g* And I will be happy to dance this dance with you, if only to bring light to my own decisions with regard to use of the term here, and in the novel.)
(And isn't it funny that LJ has no built-in mood icon for Belligerent? *g*)
