Mystic Seaport tall ship masts
— a forest of masts above a working museum river.
Not only on a wall.
Mystic Seaport tall ship masts, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“The docks at Mystic Seaport hold three full-rigged ships year-round. The Charles W. Morgan, an 1841 wooden whaler. The Joseph Conrad, an 1882 iron training ship. The L.A. Dunton, a 1921 Gloucester schooner. From the bridge in town their topmasts read against the sky before the hulls come into view. The yardarms cross. The rigging holds.
The place, in three passes.
Mystic Seaport Museum occupies a 19-acre site on the west bank of the Mystic River in Mystic, Connecticut, a short walk north of the village center. Founded in 1929, it is the largest maritime museum in the United States and the only place in the world where a wooden whaleship still rides at her own dock. Three full-rigged historic vessels (the whaler Charles W. Morgan from 1841, the training ship Joseph Conrad from 1882, and the fishing schooner L.A. Dunton from 1921) are National Historic Landmarks and are boardable during museum hours. The shoreside village holds more than 30 nineteenth-century trade buildings.
The Mystic River below the Seaport is a tidal estuary, navigable for several miles inland from Fishers Island Sound. The deep-water channel along the museum's docks holds ships drawing up to roughly fifteen feet, which is what allowed the Morgan to be towed back to her own berth after the 2014 restoration voyage. The current runs hard on the falling tide. Below the bridge the river widens past Noank toward the sound; above the Seaport it narrows quickly toward Old Mystic, where the first colonial yards stood.
Mystic Seaport is open year-round, generally 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in winter and to 5 p.m. in summer, with closures on Thanksgiving and Christmas. General admission for adults sits in the low thirties of dollars; children under five enter free. All three tall ships are boardable during museum hours, with rigging access available on the Morgan via guided tour. The wooden boat show in late June draws roughly 100 small craft to the docks. Parking is included with admission. Check mysticseaport.org for the current calendar.
