find everything wrong with this painting
Posted by dasreboot@reddit | sailing | View on Reddit | 54 comments
A friend gave me this painting. I like it, really captures the spirit, but can you find all the technical issues? I've got at least 4.
Se7en_speed@reddit
It looks like the boat just cracked in half? The deck is in a V shape.
TiMoeilijk@reddit
You can clearly see that it is being hit by a wave. This painting was made just as the front was falling of!
jean-@reddit
That's not very typical, I'd like to make that point
Mehfisto666@reddit
Yup i was gonna say ideally the boat should not be broken in half. I have no direct experience with that, but with the somewhat small experience i have with sailing in general, being in the sea on a boat broken in half would not be ideal.
tench745@reddit
The wave coming over the port rail cuts off the curve, but if you follow the line of the gunwhale through the foam, it makes a nice smooth curve. There is a (spinnaker?) pole on deck that confuses things visually and the port quarter does look a little off.
overthehillhat@reddit
good eye=
Heel angle and wave/splash
hiding that old downeast sheer
Mehfisto666@reddit
Oooohhh you are right!
Hordearius@reddit
The rocks that caused that must be the reason they built that lighthouse!
Itinerant_Draftsman@reddit
What's that outer headsail hanked on to?
Hordearius@reddit
I believe these sailing innovators have found a way to fly their staysail like a spinnaker on the windward side!
LeftToaster@reddit
You from BC?
Hordearius@reddit
Close enough - Washington 😄
LeftToaster@reddit
skookum.
Wellsite1@reddit
Why?
Imaginary-Season141@reddit
Can’t gibe or tack, as the main cannot cross the backstay
Sinn_Sage@reddit
Let's see:
How the mainsail is attached to the mast
The boat's name is Carol Ann but wife's name is Susan.
No boom vang.
No beer to be seen.
dasreboot@reddit (OP)
you are close with the first one. need to know more about how the mainsail is attached. you can use mainsail lacing, but most boats this size will use mast hoops, you usually see lacing or hoops on a gaff rig, why wouldnt you see them on a m,arconi rigged boat?
Imaginary-Season141@reddit
Cant pass the spreaders on a hoist
Hordearius@reddit
Is this one of those AI prints from Target, or did an actual human sign his name to this masterpiece?
dasreboot@reddit (OP)
real artist ian ramsey
Hordearius@reddit
I belatedly saw that and withdrew my thoughtless comment. It really is a lovely painting, and the reality incongruities add something to the viewing experience 😉 My dad is a marine artist of some note as well, but he has the advantage of being an actual sailor with decades spent on the Puget Sound.
TopCobbler8985@reddit
What the hell is going on with those spreaders
gcstr@reddit
That’s what she said
Leviathansgard@reddit
I... hope this is AI on this one T_T
Then-Blueberry-6679@reddit
I can’t make sense of the standing rigging and some of the lines
gremblor@reddit
You mean your spreaders don't project out three feet past the gunwales?
jet_heller@reddit
I kind of ignore the standing rigging in paintings. I've never seen it make obviously make sense. But, the main sheet, that I expect to make a bit of sense and this one doesn't at all.
dasreboot@reddit (OP)
yep have no idea what that extra clock on the boom does
ConfidentDimension56@reddit
No reefs in rough water/wind
elmalabarista65@reddit
Tell tales, broken boat, shadow of lighthouse, and wave/wind direction
TheFluffiestRedditor@reddit
What direction are the waves travelling in?
All of them, all the directions.
TenYearHangover@reddit
Those aren’t tell tales, they’re reefing lines.
elmalabarista65@reddit
Quite right Sir and I gladly accept my numpty award
TenYearHangover@reddit
🥰
Just-Finish5767@reddit
Nobody else seeing the shadow of a giant unicorn on the roof? Just me?
trailbooty@reddit
Looks like the wind direction is going the opposite direction of wind swell.
Reverend-Cleophus@reddit
Certainly more wind than the current heel suggests.
excitom@reddit
Wrong perspective. That lighthouse in the background is way too big relative to the boat in the foreground.
Gullintani@reddit
She's not healing in what looks like quite sporty conditions.
bobber18@reddit
Heeling
keeperdad13@reddit
That’s what bothered me the most too. Especially with the boom centered like that, you’d expect her to be way over.
squeaki@reddit
No reefs in!
Cambren1@reddit
The biggest thing that bothers me are the spreaders being too wide, too low and having too many stays going to them. The rest, I can chalk up to artistic license. Shame about the boat being broken in half though.
Tr35on@reddit
Wind direction
dasreboot@reddit (OP)
you are awesome! i didnt even include the flag at the top of the mast! you are correct
KCJwnz@reddit
Ahh yes, ye olde yankee-cut jibbakker... On the wobbly-stay, or w'bly stay they call it
whyrumalwaysgone@reddit
Really I just feel like the square lighthouse (and all square lighthouses for that matter) is the problem. Seriously, why square? Waves dont break nicely around it, so not functional. Its got all the charm of a Soviet housing block, so beauty is obviously not the goal. Why square??? I hate it.
Also the flying jib shroud doesnt reach the deck, and its way over to port. The sheer line is a "V" for some reason, stern way high.Â
jet_heller@reddit
Since there's a house right there, I don't think that's one of the ones that gets a ton of waves hitting it. Round is harder to build, so why do it if there's no reason.
SailingSpark@reddit
lighthouses on land do not have to worry about waves breaking over them. Many of NJ's lighthouses look like homes with a tower added. Yes, everyone knows Old Barney, and Cape May Light. But we also have East Point Light House, Townsend's inlet light, and even the castle like Twin Light Navesink lighthouse.
Sandy Hook light house, the oldest operating lighthouse in the US, is not round.
My_Bored_Brain@reddit
Maybe due to being easier to build if it's a wooden structure. A lot of the old life saving stations I've seen look like that with a square tower.
Coloringlamp@reddit
Extremely long mast shrouds
penkster@reddit
I for one love sailing on a flat door with an inch of freeboard, 3 full sheets out, and in a stiff wind 100' off a lighthouse.
Also, you can never have enough shrouds?
TenYearHangover@reddit
Beers aren’t properly cooled
penkster@reddit
Focusing on the Twoo Meaning of Sailing here. :)