The Captain’s Log

Notes on building, investing and occasionally tennis.

Jan van de Cappelle, Shipping in a Calm at Flushing: Dutch sailing ships and a yacht firing a salute on a glassy, windless sea.

Jan van de Cappelle

Shipping in a Calm at Flushing, 1649

Oil on oak panel. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

The Captain, between posts. Note the absence of wind.