The daily Astorian., February 12, 2016, WEEKEND EDITION, Image 21

FRIDAYEXTRA !
The Daily Astorian
Friday, February 12, 2016
Weekend Edition
I did this boat one afternoon on location at the West End Mooring Basin. It’s the Linron, a great-looking little boat that someone is trying to put back
together. You can see from the fuzziness of the sketch that the rain joined us for a while.
Sketcherpoet
$storia artist catches boats ² on SaSer
By NOEL THOMAS
Special to The Daily Astorian
V D WULEXWH WR WKH ¿VKHUSR
ets, who know well what it’s
like to be on the vast ocean
in a little boat, ,’ve been oXt sketch
ing some of the boats that have been
SaUt of $stoUia’s ¿ shing histoU\
, think ,’m olG enoXgh to tell m\
³, UemembeU when´ stoU\ of coming
down from Longview, Washington,
to the mouth of the Columbia River
for the 6almon 'erb\ with m\ dad in
the boat he built
, must have been or the da\
m\ Sole went ³%am´, and almost
À ew overboard, but dad grabbed it,
set the hook, then handed the Sole
back to me
<ou don’t forget catching \our ¿ rst
salmon, not a Sounder
7hough ,’m not a ¿ sherman, and
never owned a boat, I do love to catch
them on SaSer
Noel Thomas is an Astoria artist.
These and other sketches will be part
of this weekend’s group art show at
the RiverSea Gallery.
A
ABOVE: This old gillnetter
is at the boatyard in the
West End Mooring Basin.
It’s in pretty bad shape,
but I think it’s going to be
saved. I hope so. RIGHT:
This one is so old there
is no name visible on its
rusting hull. It’s been tied
up near the 39th Street
pier for years next to the
Red Eagle, which is in
the same sad condition.
It rained a little on this
sketch, too.