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Arrr… thar be a landlubber at the helm of Spelling Bee.

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The river awaits. #Photography #Oregon #Boats #Astoria

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Small Boat Voyaging, Puget Island, Lower Columbia River. The second night from Astoria, Portland bound (2018). #Oregon #PNW #Boats #ColumbiaRiver

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Gap between Lois and Mott Islands, looking north. Columbia River, Astoria. #Oregon #Photography #ColumbiaRiver

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Kangiqtugaapik days (1996). North Baffin Island, Nunavut. Ice bergs, tundra, residual sea ice and fog-- these photos seem to capture the complete silence of being there. #Arctic #BaffinIsland #Photography

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A bygone Portland Mini-Museum exhibit featuring my ceramic feline muses. "Katz Shipbuilders" made of wood, paper, recycled materials and model ship parts. Yes, the welding helmet does have cat ears. #Diorama #Shipbuilding #Cats #ModelShips

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When the love of books, boats, and graphic design converge... Two mid-century gems: "Boats Anyone can Build" (by Popular Science) 1947, and "23 Boats you Can Build" (by Popular Mechanics) 1950. #BoatBuilding #BookCovers #NauticalBooks

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Moonlit night on the John Day River, Astoria. #Photography #PNW #Oregon

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Common Mergansers-- diving ducks. Incidentally, they are also pop-up ducks. Slo-Mo video taken on the John Day River, Astoria, OR. #Ducks #Birds #Wildlife #Oregon #PNW

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Boats for a model ship: Amundesen's "Gjøa". Historic photos show an Oselver Boat (Gray), a flat-bottomed skiff, and a Norwegian Pram. Amundsen also collected two sealskin kayaks from Nattilingmiut at Gjøa Haven, ca. 1904. Modeled at 3/8"=1' #ShipModel #Amundsen #InuitKayaks #ArcticExploration

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When the love of books, boats, and graphic design converge: F. B. Goodrich's "History of the Sea," n.d. (ca. 1875). Black and gold embossed red cover, with deep bevels sectioning off eight areas. #BookCovers #NauticalBooks #Ocean

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Warren Slough Float Homes, Knappa, Lower Columbia River. #Phtography #Oregon #PNW

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Coyotes on the island (sound on). Lois Island, Columbia River, Astoria. They began as suddenly as they ended.

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Summer evening with sailboat: The John Day River, Astoria. #Oregon #Photography #Boats

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Captains Alfred Carpenter & D. Wilson Barker's eclectic "Nature Notes for Ocean Voyagers" (1926), featuring a lovely gold embossed flying fish on the cover. The book is scientific at first, but also has chapters on sea monsters, sailors' rituals and ships' mascots. #NauticalBooks #BookCovers #Ocean

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Summer evening on the John Day River, Astoria. #Oregon #Photogrpahy

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Barnegat Bay Garvey Box-- a duck hunting boat from New Jersey, built from lines in Howard Chapelle's "American Small Sailing Craft," (2017 edition; orig: 1951), figure 20. ...And the beautiful jacket of the book-- same as first edition. #Boats #BookCovers #NauticalBooks #Boatbuilding #SailingA

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When the love of books, boats, and graphic design converge: Douglas Leechman's "Vanta Kutchin," (1954), an ethnography published by Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources and National Museum of Canada. #BookCovers #NauticalBooks #Canoe #Canada

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Covers of two lesser-known Arctic Expeditions, both with nice gilt embossing. Keely & Davis' 1892 "In Arctic Seas: Voyage of the Kite," one of the Peary relief voyages, and A. P. Low's "Cruise of the Neptune," (1906), a Canadian government expedition. #BookCovers #NauticalBooks #ArcticExpedition

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Moonlight on the John Day River, Astoria. #Photography #Oregon

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Shinji Nishimmura's 1930 "The Kagami-No-Fune, or Wicker Boat"-- part of his series on ancient ships and boats of Japan; This volume covers skin boats. Also shown is a former owner's book-plate. More in Alt-Text. #BookCovers #NauticalBooks #Japan #NauticalArchaeology

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Evening light on the John Day River, Astoria. #Oregon #Photography #Boats

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Artful Nautical/Exploration Book Covers: By a lesser known Arctic Explorer with a very well known last name: Edward Shackleton's "Arctic Journeys," 1939 (2nd. ed.), with a mostly intact jacket. This is Ernest's son, leader of the 1934-35 Oxford U. Ellesmere Land Expedition. #BookCovers #Arctic

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When the love of books, boats, and graphic design converge: Jean Neyret's "Pirogues Océaniennes" (I & II), 1974. A heavily illustrated catalog of the world's canoe-forms. The simple and subtly colored cover features some of the drawings that are black-line inside. #NauticalBooks #BookCovers

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A summer-past's evening on the Little John Day, Astoria. #Oregon #Photography

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When the love of books, boats, and graphic design converge: 2 simple but elegant covers from the turn of the last century featuring very elegant script. Vaux's "Canoe Handling" 1901, and Stephens' "Canoe and Boat Building" 1898. Both Pub'd by Forest & Stream. More in Alt. #BookCovers #NauticalBooks

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Moonlight on the river. The John Day River, Astoria.

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When the love of books, boats, and graphic design converge... H. Paasch's "Vom Kiel Zum Flaggenknopf: Marine Wörterbuch... etc." 1885. An illustrated nautical dictionary in French, English and German. A very vividly gilded cover! Front & title included. More in Alt-Text #BookCovers #NauticalBooks

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When the love of books, boats, and graphic design converge... E. Keble Chatterton's 1927 "Fore & Aft Craft: The Story of the Fore a\& Aft Rig." Cloth with a glued-on color plate showing Charles II's yacht 'Mary,' which appears to be a top-sail gaff-rigged cutter. #BookCovers #NauticalBooks

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When the love of books, boats, and graphic design converge... Covers of some of my favorites: "How to Abandon Ship" by Phil Richards and John J. Banigan, 1943 (2nd ed.). Grim instructions from two who survived war-time sinkings. #BookCovers #NauticalBooks #BookDesign

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When the love of books, boats, and graphic design converge... Covers of some of my favorites: "The Norfolk Wherry" by G. Colman Green, 1937 (1952 edition). ...more to come! #book_covers #nautical_books

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Evening on the John Day River, Astoria; Floating homes from the 1930s.

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A model of Roald Amundsen's "Gjøa," the first ship to transit the entire Northwest Passage, 1903-1906; built in 1872 at Rosendahl, Norway. Amundsen over-wintered (twice) on King William Island. Model shown April '23 and today. 3/8"=1', scratch built. Much work ahead (rigging & sails, etc.)!

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