The client was a guest on the Mary Luck, a Biscay 36 built in Falmouth, England and commissioned the painting as a thank you gift. I traded this painting with a Sea School instructor in return for tuition for classes where I received my first Coast Guard Master’s license. This illustration was for Cooper Yachts of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia.
The Pallada, a 356-foot full-rigged Russian sail training ship is depicted while visiting Seattle in 1991. The Puget Sound gaff schooner Ruben de Cloux  was named after the famous tall ship master of the Laeisz Line, known for the “P” ocean-going square-rigged ships, the last in commercial use under sail. The 400-foot Polar Sea and its sister ship Polar Star, are the USCG’s two polar capable icebreakers and are capable of breaking through 21 feet of ice and can travel at 17 knots. They were built by Lockheed Shipbuilding Company of Seattle, Washington.

                   

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