2016 GWBS Featured Artist Judy Maring

Last Trip of the Day

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Judy Maring says she was honored and humbled when asked to be the 2016 Wooden Boat Show poster artist, and she visited the Maritime Museum for subject inspiration. Information about steamboats caught her eye, because she didn’t know the Georgetown area had steamboats.

She settled on the Governor Safford, which was a sidewheeler built in 1884 in Camden, New Jersey. Its paddle wheel was on the side to make it easier to turn around in narrow rivers.

“Last Trip of the Day” shows the Governor Safford chugging briskly along the Waccamaw River late in the afternoon, on its last trip of the day, headed to Hagley Landing. Passengers are on two deck levels enjoying the breeze, and smoke billows thickly from a central stack.

2016 Wooden Boat Show posters will be available for purchase at the museum for $20 starting on August 18, 2016  when the original painting will be unveiled. The painting will be auctioned off on Friday, October 14, 2016  at the Goat Island Yacht Club Regatta.