This page is really for my brother, Captain Robert S. Douglas. he is the owner of the Coastwise Packet Co. and Master of the Shenandoah, hailing from Martha's Vineyard. i started an oil painting of the square-rigged, topsail schooner in style of the old chinese portraits, that so many captains commissioned in days gone by. well, i never finished it. but i thought it was about time, especially when i started learning softimage some years ago. so, here, bob, are some recollections of the vessel ...