Pictures on bulkheads - what of?

What are your bulkhead pictures of?


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sighmoon

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If you have pictures on the bulkheads, what are they of?

Ours came with a naive sailing boat and a star fish. I meant to replace them with something else, but four years on, they're still there, because I haven't found the right picture.
 
I've got a rather battered postcard reproduction of Dungannon by George Stubbs

Dungannon.jpg


It's been on all my family's boats. Now on it's its seventh bulkhead. Gives comfort when the boat is doing her best to stand on her head...

Dungannon was one of the original thoroughbreads. His sire was Eclipse.
 
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I have a rather nice water-colour print of Buckler's Hard which shows the mud berths where my grandfather used to keep his old wooden gaffer in the 1960s. A weekend with him aboard at the age of about 4 is one of my earliest memories, and certainly my first of sailing. What sticks most in my memory though is his phenomenal snoring!
 
I haven't been given permission to put one of my life drawings up, so our bulkhead is currently bare. A friends has snaps of all the family, children and grandchildren, all staring at you when you visit, which I find unsettling. Seascapes are popular but I prefer them at home. I like the Stubbs. Whistlejacket would look good.
 
Pictures on the bulkheads ?? ... you'll be wanting an aspidistra on the cabin table next.
 
Pictures on the bulkheads ?? ... you'll be wanting an aspidistra on the cabin table next.

You can get vases with a flat back and a hole near the top, for mounting on a bulkhead with a sort of gimballing effect :)

Ferenc Maté's book on fitting out interiors has a design for a plant-pot gimballed in both dimensions.

As for the original question, I have a chart of the English Channel with a tiny red arrow everywhere the boat has been in our ownership, and pictures of other family boats of the past. And no pot plants :)

Pete
 
You can get vases with a flat back and a hole near the top, for mounting on a bulkhead with a sort of gimballing effect :)

Ferenc Maté's book on fitting out interiors has a design for a plant-pot gimballed in both dimensions.

As for the original question, I have a chart of the English Channel with a tiny red arrow everywhere the boat has been in our ownership, and pictures of other family boats of the past. And no pot plants :)

Pete
I've got that Ferenc Mate book as well, good innit?

Along the lines of the original query, I am looking for a good material for translucent cabin sole boards in the saloon, so I can have my supercool bone-dry bilges illuminated, like something in a hi-tech refurbished maritime museum ;)
 
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When I had the boat I had an original hand coloured lithograph of the action between the Shannon and Chesapeake, it's on the dinning room wall now.
 
Sorry to be a pedant, but that is 'The Immortality of Nelson'

This is the Apotheosis of Nelson
Apotheosis%20of%20Nelson.jpg

Well, it's funny you should say that...
I have always know the painting on my bulkhead to be The Immortality of Nelson, but the original at the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich has this plaque at the bottom of the frame...
Perhaps we are right and the NMM has got it wrong....
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Well, it's funny you should say that...
I have always know the painting on my bulkhead to be The Immortality of Nelson, but the original at the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich has this plaque at the bottom of the frame...
Perhaps we are right and the NMM has got it wrong....
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That's odd! from the NMM website,
The Immortality of Nelson: http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14378.html
Apotheosis of Nelson: http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14379.html

I think we're right!
 
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