"Th e Smacks Telegraph and Stormy Petrel competing at th e Cain e Match , 22 September 1984," by Frank J. H. Ga rdiner. Wh o wouldn't sell a farm ro sail our into this sunlit world of slanring decks and straining canvas ?
"The Survey Ship Endurance in the Ice," by Wi lliam H. Bishop. The stark world of deathly cold water and rorrured ice shapes is challenged by the presence of a vessel clearly equipped to take it on.
catalogue pinpoi nted the scene (rather imag inatively) as a British seas ide resort. One could go on with such examples ad nauseam. The onl y valid concl us ion to be draw n was that the hanging committee needed to have their collecti ve heads banged together. And that's only one pro blem . T here had been a high rejection rate of almost five in six a nd , of 337 exhibits, just over 48 percent were exhibited by full members, who are each entitled to hang up to six pictures w hich do not have to pass the selection committee. I ventu re to submi t that many of these wo uld not (o r certainly should not) have been hung had they had to undergo this test . Many were uninspired , technicall y inaccurate and with ships (where we we re lucky enough to see them at all ) with a poor seat in the water. The fact is that the full membe rs represent a fo rm of closed SEA HISTORY, SPRING 1985
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