The FV Mr Morgan is 58.8′ in length, weighing 87 gross tons, built in 1978, captained by Steve Fitz of Half Moon Bay, California. Its home port is Pillar Point Harbor, the gateway to northern California’s Monterey Bay. After noticing the boat several times, impressed by its great size and dark hull standing out from [...]
Also tagged Cape Cod, flatfish, Half Moon Bay, Massachusetts, petrale sole, pillar point harbor, sand dab, Scottish seining, Steve Fitz Steve Hills sold his first watercolor to his fourth grade teacher! While still in art school, he worked for Bryant Galleries. During military service, Hills ran the graphics department of the Berlin Brigade.
For several years, the versatile Hills worked in commercial illustration and design in Louisiana and California. He graduated from the Art [...]
Enjoy the LA Times 2007 story on this fishing family here.
David, the subject of the news article, is Art Haworth’s son. Art originally had the boat built. David converted it from a troller-and-longliner to a seiner. Pictured above is the original F/V Barbara H. I learned about this fishing family’s traditions and history [...]
“When I see something and it ’strikes me,’ I paint it.”–Mark Peterson
Peterson’s central theme and inspiration is the passing of things. He finds his justification in the invaluable record of human life created by artists who lived before the invention of the camera. However, he finds this motive not easily understood by the [...]
Central California Joint Cable/Fisheries Liaison Committee Dedicated to the central coast’s commercial fishing industry, here enjoy photos of local boats, fishing gear for each particular catch, and some local fishermen themselves.
BONUS: view ‘Salmon Water Now!-Cutting Through the Noise’ video. This fishing alliance is based in Morro Bay, CA.
Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum and [...]
Rare indeed is the boat art in a different medium. Rob Mason of Mendocino, CA, has mastered the etching, something I explored myself early in my artistic development. Mason’s blog includes his etchings and drawings as well as books he has published featuring his art. ‘Up Mowry’ shows his own boat the Gambella in [...]
Also tagged Alaska, art, etching, ink drawing, ink wash, Mendocino, Oregon, Rob Mason, Robert MasonDavid Thimgan, California maritime artist, 1955-2003, especially known for his painstakingly researched oil paintings of 19th & 20th century lumber schooners of the Pacific Northwest. He was like many other maritime artists, a stickler for historical and geographical accuracy. But most of his antiquarian-like works go far beyond their often wooden technique and repetitious [...]
Also tagged David Thimgan, June Carey, lumber schooner, maritime artist, Pacific NorthwestA man of many talents, among other occupations London pursued was oyster fishing in San Francisco Bay in the late 19th century. Even though his family was desperately poor, as a young man he managed to find the money to buy the sloop Razzle Dazzle from a local character “French Frank.” His success at the [...]
Also tagged author, fisherman, Jack London, Oakland, oysterman, sailor, san francisco, socialist, writer
Enjoy a well-writen tale of a fine old boat by Barbara Stickel discovered in the “Sea Stories” section of the Blue Ocean Institute website.
The saddest part is that she is now for sale.
Carol Lois Haywood
Pacific Marine Artist
Read the story below, found on the UNDERWATER TIMES about the life and times of a hardworking local fisherman, to which I was unable to create a direct link.
Posted on Tue, Apr. 05, 2005, Legendary fisherman, link to Santa Cruz
history, dies, By Ken McLaughlin, Mercury News
The sea is forever, but the old man who symbolized [...]
