MEET THE MEMORY MAKERS
Think back to your earliest yachting adventures and it’s likely you captured your trips – and, perhaps, subsequently bored friends back home – with a series of amateur snaps. Today, it’s a different story. Owners and charterers have a wealth of innovative professionals at their disposal to help them create a lasting memory of their experiences in a way that’s meaningful to them. From lino prints that capture the mood on board at the time, through to marble dragon eggs collected at stops along the itinerary, it’s fair to say there’s no memento you can’t conjure up and have made into a reality.
COMMISSION AN ARTIST
When entrepreneur and explorer Victor Vescovo embarked on a mission to dive to the deepest parts of each of the world’s five oceans, he enlisted portrait artist Alexandra Gould to help capture life on board. Working alongside photographers and other members of the media, she was invited to join the ship DSSV Pressure Drop at short notice, having expressed an interest to chief scientist Alan James about pursuing works to do with his research and climate change. “When I got the email inviting me I responded within minutes,” she says with enthusiasm.
Meeting Vescovo and the rest of the team for the first time on board in the Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific, Gould soon found that she had to adapt her normal working practices to suit life on board a hectic, fast-paced research vessel.
“I thought I’d better take all these sketchbooks, pencils and charcoal with me because I hadn’t done it before, and there wasn’t a single other expedition
