Letter: Wayward Westport buoy posed patiently for portrait

Posted 2/4/18

To the editor:

I just received my copy of the latest publication of Shorelines and would like to add my own experience  to your story of red No.14 lighted buoy.

I was out there last …

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Letter: Wayward Westport buoy posed patiently for portrait

Posted

To the editor:

I just received my copy of the latest publication of Shorelines and would like to add my own experience  to your story of red No.14 lighted buoy.

I was out there last year fishing for stripers and was anchored near the buoy. 

I took several photos of it and, after viewing, decided to make an acrylics painting of the subject.

I know this is an inanimate object out there, but year after year it does its job providing light and safety to boaters coming in and out of The Devils Pocket on the Westport River. 

It’s really an engineering marvel that withstands tides, waves  and wind and probably a few knocks by boats coming and going. I guess that great mass of metal was too much for the chain holding it in place.

Just wanted to share my thoughts and my painting which I sold at the Westport Art Group on Main Road during the South Coast Art Tour in August 2017. 

Thank you for the article,

Art Cintron 

Member, Westport Art Group

Westport

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