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                                                         "Race Day"

                                                            "Gaffers" 

                                                          "Shadowdance"

                                                             "Portugal"

                                                     "Kathryn, 1898" 

 
                                                          "Dark Harbor"

                                                           "Off Abaco"

                                                           "Rail Meat"

                                                                "Peacock"

                                                          "Red Pheasant"

                                                     "Black-Winged Stilt"

"Yankee, 1935"    

 "First Leg"   
"Black Swan"   

                                                            "Cat Tales"                         

                                                          "Albatross"

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"Race Day" was inspired by our racing days with the boats we raced years ago.  This was our normal view...the sterns of the rest of the fleet.

 English Channel cutters, 1890's.

"Shadowdance".  A ballet based on light, dark and water. 

We found this boat on a visit to the Algarve in '92.

The setting for this piece is Scotland, where this boat was built in 1898.

A Dark Harbor 20 (waterline length) raced in Dark Harbor, Maine.

Bahamian catboat.

"Rail Meat" is a common racing term for human ballast.

I did a series of these bird portraits some time ago, and limited it to four images.  Each one has a small symbol that, I think, charcterizes each bird's nature and ties it to the group as a whole.

The first is a Gallic peacock...

A Teutonic hybrid pheasant...

An Oriental stilt...

and an African bird of prey.

An American Americas Cup racer from the '30's.

Americas Cup gaff-rigged racers, circa 1900.

British commercial vessel, circa 1880.

 Catboat

A 1937 Hatteras off Okracoke Island, NC.