That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 20, 2021

Stuart Little’s boat maker.

In the Dutch version of the fairytale, Joop contemplates whether he really does want to find the owner of this wooden shoe.

It’s good to have a hobby. Ralph whiled away many an hour caving toy boats.

Greg’s figured his dream of escaping that hell hole is one step closer. He later learned the concept of proportion.

Oh! Gravy boat…Gravy boat!

Sven shed a silent tear as he looked at the burial craft he’d built for his pet, Eric the Vole.

Now to make a matching boat for my right foot.

Eureka! I have finally designed it … a prototype of the first ‘never-miss’ bedpan!

Noah pondering, God said to make it 300 cubits long and a dice is a cube… But somehow this just seems wrong.

A titanic mistake…

He’s been commissioned by the Little Viking’s family to make a wee boat for the deceased loved one’s boat pyre. Erlic The Abridged made sure all new his wishes before the Valkyries took him to Valhalla!

It is now plain to see why the man from Nantucket went to sea in a bucket. This ship he’d built would only carry his……… tools.

It took several attempts before Geppetto created Pinocchio.

He can feel the trade winds blow/ and the palms swayin’ to an’ fro/ but it’s only a dream-/ he’s abaft the beam/ in a basement in Idaho.

Now I’ve gotta find 3 small men and a chihuahua…….

Folks who are serious about the ‘tiny house’ craze are going to love my boats!

I’ll call it a salad boat, how will they know?

Special order for Winken, Blinkin and Nod…

cubits, you fool!

It was true when they said bob had a little dinghy

On the right is the proto-type for this final, full-scale version.

Jerry misunderstood when the sales department said they needed a boat for Nome.

The photo made it look a lot bigger. I really need to look at the description and check sizes before I click “complete your order.”

When I finish this bad boy how will I get it out to sea, I live in Phoenix?

Now, once I plant this I wonder how long it will take to grow to full size?

In a final honor he handmade the craft for his little dog’s viking funeral.

nah, it was in SI not US

Now that I have the bottom done, where do I go from here?

All I can say, Stan, is “Whatever floats your boat”!

Lionel branched out into boat-modeling. No smoke option, though.

Can you canoe?

That’s a funny caption.

There was a minor slip in building his ship.

The original prototype for “boat shoes” went through a LOT of changes before production.

“Yeah, I’m single. How can you tell?”

He’d been trying for months now to say “toy boat” five times, quickly.

He burned the midnight oil making wooden shoes for Shaquille.

Back to the drawing board….

The Invention of the Lifeboat: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ralph_Hedley_-_The_Invention_of_the_Lifeboat.jpg 

has info and links that point to more info about this painting.

https://www.wikiart.org/en/ralph-hedley 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/ralph-hedley/ 

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

https://www.johnnicholsonfineart.co.uk/department/ralph-hedley-newcastle-genre-painter-in-oil-and-watercolour-wood-carver-illustrator-sculptor/ 

https://prabook.com/web/ralph.hedley/1933307 

http://ralphhedleyarchive.com/painting/painting_and_drawing_spreadsheet_revised.html 

https://victorianweb.org/painting/hedley/index.html 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 5 works by him, and 1 by a follower, have been used here (8 times in total, with 2 repeats). 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2017/12/29?comments=visible 

has the prior (the second repeat, my comment there included one of the artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2689 (April 19, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“Dam. This things just a piece of ship”

Back when you had to make your own bathtub toys.

It suddenly dawned on him that this was not the type of canoe she was talking about.

Greggory. wanting to leave his island prison, underestimated the ft. v. meters idea. he wont be going anywhere for a while.

Spinal Tap / Stonehenge

Hmmm. Now did the instructions say “Just add water”, or “Just find water”?

A Mars lander was recently lost because of an error in measurement conversion.