HIGH HOPES, WILD MEN AND THE DEVIL’S JAW - Willem Barentsz Kolderstok 1:50

[Heinrich]

Yikes, wouldn’t wanted to have been aboard.

For sure, my friend. I have no idea who the artist was/is, but I love the immediacy of the moment that is portrayed. Note the torn rigging lines, the damaged bowsprit and the damaged sails. The waves pounding the bulwarks just add to the perilous ambience of the painting - brilliant!

 

[pingu57]

Yikes, wouldn’t wanted to have been aboard.

That makes two of us, such a small vessel on such a big ocean, they must have had big balls, to sail these ships.
It is a beautifull painting bye the way

 

[Heinrich]

That makes two of us, such a small vessel on such a big ocean, they must have had big balls, to sail these ships.
It is a beautifull painting bye the way

Big balls indeed my friend. But think of Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco da Gama who sailed 100 years earlier around the notorious Cape of Storms in carvels that were even smaller and offered even less protection. These Portuguese explorers had extra big kahunas!

 

[Pathfinder65]

@Kolderstok

View attachment 345583
Stunning painting!

Wow, rough seas, tough sailors.

 

[pingu57]

Yes, you are quite right my friend, the first seafarers set of in a Papyrus boat, even smaller as the Portugese explorers.
I think that if you compare those vessels with the latest containerships, the lifeboats of the containerships could very wel be larger as the Portugese ships and the Papyrus boats

 

[Pathfinder65]

I crossed the Atlantic twice in a Troop ship while in the military. Both times it was in March and with Winter storms. Quite the experience, fortunately I didn't suffer from motion sickness.

 

[Heinrich]

Friends I actually found the original print in high resolution. And ... yes ... it was by Willem van de Velde the Younger! say no more!



De Windstoot (The Gust)
By Willem van de Velde the Younger (ca. 1650-1707)

Enjoy!

 

[rtibbs]

Friends I actually found the original print in high resolution. And ... yes ... it was by Willem van de Velde the Younger! say no more!

View attachment 345649

De Windstoot (The Gust)
By Willem van de Velde the Younger (ca. 1650-1707)

Enjoy!

The Gust? Looks more like a typhoon but what do I know being a landlubber
In any case, what an elegant painting

 

[pingu57]

Just as good a painter as van der Velde the elder they make beautifull paintings

 

[Heinrich]

The Gust? Looks more like a typhoon but what do I know being a landlubber
In any case, what an elegant painting

To me that also looks far more serious than a "gust"!

 

[Heinrich]

Just as good a painter as van der Velde the elder they make beautifull paintings

Yes, my friend - they remain the standard against which all other naval art is judged.

 

[Daniel20]

Great Painting Heinrich, glad you found it. Since the foresail was not furled in time for the storm, I imagen in my mind they had to pop loose and free all the lines before the wind tore the sail and foremast down with it?? Your standing rigging is coming along nicely, good, neat work.

 

[Heinrich]

Great Painting Heinrich, glad you found it. Since the foresail was not furled in time for the storm, I imagen in my mind they had to pop loose and free all the lines before the wind tore the sail and foremast down with it?? Your standing rigging is coming along nicely, good, neat work.

Thank you for the kind words on the rigging Daniel. Your VASA is an almost impossible act to follow, but it certainly serves as good motivation. I would think that your explanation of the loosening of the rigging is absolutely correct - it makes a lot of sense.

 

[Richie]

Friends I actually found the original print in high resolution. And ... yes ... it was by Willem van de Velde the Younger! say no more!

View attachment 345649

De Windstoot (The Gust)
By Willem van de Velde the Younger (ca. 1650-1707)

Enjoy!

Love this painting, it got me searching for others and wow so many beauties out there.
Also got me thinking just because someone can paint something amazing like that with just hands and materials, I know I couldn't do it and much like modelling I just wont be able to build a model to the same level as some of the masters I see on this forum, still have fun trying though.

 

[Heinrich]

Love this painting, it got me searching for others and wow so many beauties out there.
Also got me thinking just because someone can paint something amazing like that with just hands and materials, I know I couldn't do it and much like modelling I just wont be able to build a model to the same level as some of the masters I see on this forum, still have fun trying though.

Hi Richie - maritime paintings are a great source of pleasure to me as well. The paintings of the Dutch masters, Backhuizen, Nooms, Vroom, and of course the Van de Veldes contain so much detail that I can get lost looking at all. The modern painters are equally impressive with Jan de la Quelery and Arnold de Lange at the forefront. I am very fortunate that Arnold de Lange has painted a number of works on the WB.

 

[RogerD]

I'm three pages behind again but the enjoyable read continues. Wonderful progress Heinrich, there's always something new I learn from your log/s.

 

[Heinrich]

I'm three pages behind again but the enjoyable read continues. Wonderful progress Heinrich, there's always something new I learn from your log/s.

Thank you, Roger. I have just told @Pathfinder65 Jan that our temperatures will dip below zero during the night for the first time this winter, so tomorrow will be a shipyard day. I hope to show some progress by the end of the weekend.

 

[Hoss6262]

Heinrich, I'm just catching up on your log. What wonderful progress you've made on your WB! But as always, I so enjoy the history lessons, the trips back in time I take every time I read your posts. That painting evokes a primitive emotion that is hard to describe. I can't imagine the lives those sailors lived. As always, thank yo for sharing all you do my friend!

 

[Steef66]

Hi Heinrich, have to catch up a lot of pages. Your little ship is going to the right direction. Nice work.

Some point of criticism, about the stay. I agree with Sacha that the stay is in top of the shrouds, never below it. Even the Dutch rigging method don't show this. When you start on the mizzen mast and work to the front it is easy to do. Start with the shrouds of the mizzen and then the stay of the mizzen to the foot of the mainmast. Then the shrouds of the mainmast, then the main stay, at last the foremast shrouds, foremast stay. When you have finish that you start again on the mizzen topmast stay and then etc...
There are builders that find it difficult to make the stays after all the shrouds are done, that's true, not easy to work on the foot of the mast when the shrouds are placed. But do it like I mentioned before you don't have that problem. And you work on a correct way to do the rigging. The stay under the shrouds is a big rigging mistake.
And if you planning side tackles or stay tackles (same thing) you have to do them before the shrouds.
Just an advice to help you to be correct in rigging a Dutch ship.

 

[Heinrich]

Heinrich, I'm just catching up on your log. What wonderful progress you've made on your WB! But as always, I so enjoy the history lessons, the trips back in time I take every time I read your posts. That painting evokes a primitive emotion that is hard to describe. I can't imagine the lives those sailors lived. As always, thank yo for sharing all you do my friend!

Thank you very much for the very kind words, my friend. I am very glad that you are enjoying the historical aspect of the build, I have spent a considerable time on the research of the ship and to me that forms an inherent part of the build. So, when my friends say that they enjoy that part of the log, I feel that it was time well spent. Thank you!