A Dutch statenjacht - Page 2

**Seahorse** · #11 10-10-2017, 12:05 AM

What are the flag and pennants made of?

Tomek

**abhovi** · #12 10-10-2017, 01:26 AM

Thank you all for your undeserved praise (except of course your comments on Emiel’s work).

Seahorse: when you buy a bottle of whisky in Holland, they wrap it in a very thin sheet of paper. Ideal for flags. I used to colour them with too much (oil)paint, which made them too colorful for such thin fabric. Nowadays I paint with very deluted paint. First I dip my brush in terpentine, then pick up a little bit of paint and touch the paper as lightly a possible. This makes very faint colors, which I like much more than the old ones. And it is a good excuse for buying a new bottle every now and then. :-)

**Seahorse** · #13 10-10-2017, 01:48 AM

Thank you for answers (2 in 1:-))
1. How to make flags
2. How to explain my wife the exigency of buying a new bottle of whisky:-)

Tomek

**Erik Zwaan** · #14 10-10-2017, 06:12 AM

Ab, another outstanding model of a very elegant yacht. The photoshop picture could easily go for a 17th century painting. They would have been jealous on today's graphical possibilities....

I wonder if the English word "yacht" originates from the Dutch word "jacht"? So many sailing terms in English have been derived from Dutch. A few days ago I read the word "gangplank" in an English article. Well, that does sound familiar to our "gangplank", except for the pronounciation of course.

Or am I too chauvinistic and is it the other way around??

Cheers,
Erik

**eatcrow2** · #15 10-10-2017, 06:58 AM

Inspirational modeling!! Beautiful work..

**Bluenoser** · #16 10-10-2017, 06:59 AM

The digital 'paintings' are fabulous.
You should produce a 'coffee table book' of all these.

**Seascape** · #17 10-10-2017, 08:30 AM

Another beautiful model for your collection. Emiel's digital paintings are amazing!

Fred

**abhovi** · #18 10-14-2017, 02:29 AM

Thank you again.
Erik: Indeed the English word Yacht is derived from our word jacht. Maybe you didn’t know, but the Dutch were the first to build boats for pleasure. When Charles II was collected from Scheveningen late in the fifties of the seventeenth century after living in exile for years he was brought there from Breda by a group of yachts. He liked sailing in them so much that the Amsterdam Mayor presented him one of his own. Home in London he had one built in the English fashion and later on he even recieved a second Dutch one. This started yachting in England.

**Don Boose** · #19 10-14-2017, 07:10 AM

There is considerable Dutch influence in New York City in the United States, which was, after all, originally a Dutch colony.

The New York City Yacht Club clubhouse on 44th Street in New York (formerly New Amsterdam) has beautiful windows carved to emulate the beautiful appearance of the sterns of jachts.

https://www.nyyc.org/about/clubhouse...reet-clubhouse

Don