This photo resource is “all about San Francisco Bay by boat.” There are numerous resources here, including photos from the present and the past.
To explore working boats at this Pacific website, click here. To investigate the all-photo index, try this link.
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Looking for photos of salmon fishing in Alaska? Alaska-in-Pictures offers some excellent views! It takes an extra click or two: look for the links to “Alaskan activities” and then go to “salmon fishing” and “commercial fishing”.
The painting left is one I made last year of “The Shanbre”, an Alaskan salmon troller.
Carol Lois Haywood
Pacific Marine Artist
The World of the Small Commercial Fishermen: Their Lives and Their Boats by Michael Meltzer is generously illustrated book that captures the fishing industry scene as it was in 1980 from Maine to Alaska. Recently I found a copy at a local used bookstore and enjoyed reading it very much. While it’s not in color, [...]
Also tagged bow picker, Columbia River, felucca, fishing, fishing vessel, gillnetter, Mediterranean, Michael Meltzer, san francisco, Scandinavian, small commercial fishermenMaritime art on the east coast has an outstanding practitioner in Tim Wood of Vermont. His subject are New England boats and harbors, and he usually works in acrylic. The painting that made me a fan is below, called, “While Commercial Street Frolics”, combining the challenge of capturing the sense of individual boats in harbor [...]
Also tagged art, east coast, marine, maritime, Tim Wood, vermont