That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 21, 2019

The moment little Charlie realized he didn’t want to be a sailor.

“Grandpa, I think you were suppose to build the ship in the bottle.”

“and then the mizzen mast connects to the fo’castle…..”

“Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz”

“When we were in port we’d all see who could get the fattest woman up the gangplank. That’s why they were called whalers.”

Little Charlie: You’ve told me that story a zillion times.

Pretty epic for a neckbeard.

But useful for sailing in winter, keeps the neck warm in the teeth of a gale.

his career as gregory peck’s double down the tubes, george filled his empty hours building model ships…

We called him Ishmael, and he saw me battle the white whale. I remember it well. Used to write rhymes, I think. He was a watcher. That’s when I died, dear little cherub. He was scribbling something about some young lady from Dallas when the whale took me under. Good times!

Listening to his stories are like watching the America Cup.

Were those spare pants brown?

I case you have ever wondered… In naval architecture, a poop deck is a deck that forms the roof of a cabin built in the rear, or “aft”, part of the superstructure of a ship.

The name originates from the French word for stern, la poupe, from Latin puppis. Thus the poop deck is technically a stern deck, which in sailing ships was usually elevated as the roof of the stern or “after” cabin, also known as the “poop cabin”. On sailing ships, the helmsman would steer the craft from the quarter deck, immediately in front of the poop deck. At the stern, the poop deck provides an elevated position ideal for observation.

“We wuz laden wi’ tea from Kowloon/ when we ran into that typhoon/ by the end o’that squall/ it were clear to us all/ that our schooner would no longer ‘schoon’ "

Looks like he’s blessing the ship….

Don’t you just hate it when the grownups won’t let you play with your birthday presents?

The gentleman bears a remarkable resemblance to Gideon Welles – Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy.

It will look great when I put the sails on it.

sniff..sniff “Grandpa, you know I think you did it again.”

The ole Capt. explaining how the sailors would dive off of the crow’s nest … and occasionally even hit the water.

A Story of the Sea: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_George_Brown_-_A_Story_of_the_Sea.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. Other versions has strip coloration.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/brown_john_george.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=533 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/john-george-brown/ 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32252308/john-george-brown 

https://chrysler.emuseum.com/objects/15524/pull-for-the-shore 

https://books.google.com/books?id=sPGdBxzaWj0C&pg=PA346#v=onepage&q&f=false 

http://www.all-art.org/DICTIONARY_of_Art/b/Brown_John1.htm 

https://books.google.com/books?id=js1ZCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT2#v=onepage&q&f=false 

http://hoocher.com/John_George_Brown/John_George_Brown.htm 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 2 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2018/03/16?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included the last 5 artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2311 (October 20, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

The man’s beard is in a very odd place – apparently confined to around his neck under his actual face.

“Aye, ’tis an odd shape indeed for a wagon, but the reason they be called the Ships of the Prairie.”

…and so we had like 3 tons of pure coke hidden in the fo’castle when the coast guard nabbed us. And that’s why your great-grandpa just got out of prison.

Yes, Grampa, model ship building is a great hobby. But here in Arizona we don’t have any place to try them out.

gramps told little henry that when he is 18 yo. we are going on a men’s only cruise.henry wasn’t so sure he meant . but it sounded fun.