The Richter Scale^®

Back at the end of March, my family and I took a one week vacation aboard the S/V Polynesia, one of the ships of the Windjammer fleet. These four masted schooners are small cruise ships in their own right, holding around 100 passengers (capacity varies based on which ship you’re on), and are pretty campy and persona(ble). Definitely not as formal, rigid, stuffy, or impersonal as the big cities-on-the-sea from cruise lines such as Carnival. No black tie nights on a Windjammer cruise. Windjammer cruising is also called “Bare Foot Cruising”.

Anyhow, we had a great time with Capt. Casey and his crew, seeing Sint Maarten, Anguilla, Nevis, St. Kitts, and St. Barths. Highly recommended.

But, the point of this blog post is that on that trip, we took some pictures, and my ever talented painting wife recently finished paintings based loosely on those photos.

You can find these paintings under the titles “Windjammer” (how apropos!) and “O Sunset” on her web site at www.LindaRichter.com (I won’t repost the pictures here because they are too large).

An interesting footnote is that the S/V Polynesia is now calling on Bonaire every week for a couple of days. We’ll have to hook up with Captain Casey once we’re all back on island at the same time and show him the paintings.