That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 30, 2020

“Damn, I forgot my cigarettes.”

“It was a dark and stormy night…” but that’s another story.

I told you not to text and drive.

Did anyone remember to turn the water off and lock up?

""Sit down, sit down you’re rockin’ the boat

And the devil will drag you under

By the sharp lapel of your checkered coat

Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down

Sit down you’re rocking the boat"

— Guys and Dolls

“Captain, begging your pardon sir, but traditionally, aren’t you supposed to be going down with the old girl?”

“This will all wash away, like a miracle!”

Better hope you sprang for the accident insurance!

It looks like an allegory of 2020.

oops…

Wasn’t it Spike Milligan who said “The best remedy for sea-sickness is a piece of dry land”……?

“Would you stop singing, ‘Stormy Weather’?! It’s not helping the situation!”

“Um Captain shouldn’t we heading TOWARD that island?”

Look, I know we have plenty of rations NOW, but we’re a long way from port, and well, we know we’re going to end up eating ONE of us, so I say we draw lots now, while we’re still relatively well-fed and yummy … er, healthy, and then we can salt down the loser for later.

What say, guys?

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2rsmd7

Oh look, the ship is righting itself; it’s not going down after all. In fact, it’s blowing away from us at a rather impressive speed.

“We should have taken the Titanic – I hear she’s unsinkable !”

“Sailing, sailing, over the bounding main”…."Will you knock it off with the songs already! “Row, row, row your boat was bad enough and if you start with Jolly Boating Weather I’m gonna beat my oar against your scull with the coxswain crying stroke!”

Storm, this is not a real storm, why in 1976, I was sailing in the Straits of Magellan, the waves were 120 feet high, and we thought we were a goner…

Is that Guam?

In spite of competing claims/ and calling each other names/they’ve been forced to admit/ that this isn’t one bit/ like punting on the Thames.

You’re not getting your deposit back.

Everyone row towards that ship, with the guy painting a picture on deck.

You mean he sank our ship, just so he could paint a picture?

Stop complaining. You’re on a lifeboat, unlike the other 1,500 steerage passengers.

What the administration wishes had happened to Captain Crozier and the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).

The legend of Davy Jones’ black poodle was apparently true.

James got the insurance. Right James?

James?

MAN OVERBOARD!

“Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale

a tale of a fateful trip,

…Damn these 3 hour cruises!

Avast you “Crackerjacks” we can get in Guinness Book, by beating Bligh’s trip to Timor!

Ya takes yer chances when you sail with Captain Eddie on the Anoesis.

Dang the lens of my camera fogged up, could you hold on a minute while I wipe it off?

As the waves crashed over the bow/ the Captain was heard to allow/ that, though not so well paid/ still, he wished he had stayed/ at the helm of his old garbage scow..

There’s another reason why the cruise ship industry isn’t doing well now.

“Go on a cruise”, they said. “You’ll have fun”, they said. “Ships today are so safe”, they said.

I’m never going to listen to those a$$holes again!

I’ve got a sinking feeling that I forgot the deluxe insurance package.

The first mate was chucked overboard right after he tried to enforce the mask rule.

The Shipwreck or The survivors: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ivan_Aivazovsky_-_The_Shipwreck.jpg 

(best viewed with Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/aivazovsky_ivan.html 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97100687/ivan-konstantinovich-aivazovsky 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/a/aivazovs/biograph.html 

https://www.askart.com/artist/Ivan_Konstantinovitch_Aivazovski/11084994/Ivan_Konstantinovitch_Aivazovski.aspx 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/ivan-konstantinovich-aivazovsky/ 

http://www.avictorian.com/Aivazovsky_Ivan_Konstantinovich.html 

http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CA%5CI%5CAivazovskyIvan.htm 

http://ayvazovskiy.su/%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8B/ 

https://mydailyartdisplay.wordpress.com/category/ivan-aivazovsky/ 

https://rehs.com/eng/default-19th20th-century-artist-bio-page/?fl_builder&artist_no=317&sold=1 

http://hoocher.com/Ivan_Aivazovsky/Ivan_Aivazovsky.htm 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Chrome can automatically translate as necessary, and askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. First work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2481 (June 29, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Anybody else think that big dark cloud over yonder looks a little threatening?

Who’s bright idea was it to have a barbecue?

rowing toward sinking ship the drunks in the boat thought they would rescue the others, but they already left the ship. lets go swimming said the captain.

That looks straight out of a Joseph Conrad novel.