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When Bush bought a new Boston whaler for the Maine summers, he held a naming contest and executed some grandfatherly diplomacy by giving almost every entry some award, ending with two names that were painted on the boat: Speedy Sea King and Wa-Wa's Devil, which is Bush family code for their housekeeper, Paula Rendon...
...Aubrey/Maturin voyage is typically tempestuous. Their ship, the Surprise, is rocked by an underwater volcanic eruption. They capture the Franklin, a privateer sailing under American colors and carrying a Frenchman who may be a spy for Napoleon. Next comes a full-fledged pirate ship, then a whaler ripe for the taking, and then a particularly nasty storm called a wind- gall. Aubrey sustains some serious injuries. Maturin is kept busy cleaning up after various forms of carnage; the duty includes performing amputations without anesthesia. "This will hurt for a moment," he tells one patient, "but it will not last. Hold...
Nevertheless, some of Bellows' finest paintings were set on an island at the farthest possible remove from Manhattan: Monhegan, on the Maine coast, where his idol Winslow Homer had also painted. Though born and raised in Ohio, Bellows had coastal roots -- his grandfather was a whaler at Montauk on the eastern tip of New York's Long Island -- and the Atlantic was as fundamental a source of imaginative nourishment to him as it had been to Melville or Whitman. "We two and the great sea," he wrote to his wife in a moment of romantic exaltation, "and the mighty rocks...
Wall Street is a thoroughfare with a river at one end and a cemetery at the other. Not long ago, brokers were fantasizing at the water's edge, wondering whether they should buy the Boston Whaler or peddle a few more shares and go for the 46-ft. cabin cruiser. Today they are at the other end of the street, dressed in black, standing at the grave and stealing furtive looks at one another, wondering who will be the next...
...Eskimos, too, tired of the occupation army. "They are all making a big deal out of nature's way of feeding other animals," said local whaler Bob Aiken. Putu and Siku, for their part, lingered in the channel for more than a day. They still had to navigate some 7,000 miles southward to their Baja California winter home. But at long last they had been granted a new start...