Pretty Boats Luana
People often ask me why photos of the same boats keep appearing across all the media. The answer is simple, the more attractive to the eye a boat is, the more photos have been taken. This is particularly true in the days before digital cameras when developing & printing a photo was relatively expensive – so people only took photos of pretty boat or boats in trouble (on the rocks).
If your boat was drop dead gorgeous, people even painted it.
I was sent a photo of the painting above of Luana by Brian Worthington who in his words ‘was going thru a cupboard at the fishing club and found this broken glass print of Luana It used to be on the wall in the bar at Mayor island when the fishing club was based out there’.
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Hi Argis. Are you the Argis Tuft who was a very good friend of my old mate Arfur Foulkesake.
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Well, me old woodie. the trouble is that they ain’t making too many good lookers these days. I have a personal conviction that kids are brought up sailing Optimists and don’t learn from an early age about aesthetics. P class and Zeddies are boxes too, but they have style. They look OK.
Now cast your beady eyes on the big mega cruisers and yachts they are making now. Straight stems, vertical wheelhouse screens, lack of sheer -bloody awful looking. Someone in a recent magazine was touting his ghastly boxy new build as being a classic looking boat. Sorry, mate but it ain’t.
If you gotta ask what good looks are, you just don’t know.
Form follows function -no wonder that our boats stand out in a crowd.
Yours aye
Argis Tuft
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