This is my version of an old Clyde Puffer. These boats plied there trade around the Clyde and up the West Coast of Scotland calling in at all the remote islands and communities from the early 1900's to the 1980's. They got their name from the sound that they made because of the type of steam engine that they had with the funnel being used as the inlet and exhaust and the amount of smoke that they produced. They were all flat bottom boats so that they could be beached but were not very good sea boats as a result. The boat in the background is the "Waverly" and is the last sea going paddle steamer left in the world. I had to do a bit mapped copy of this boat as the file size was getting too large.
The drawing is meant to be on a very flat water day with a weak and hazy sky. The boat still looks very clean and model like? Your crit's on this would be welcomed.
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