Poppy

Day's End

Laid up

Sunlight and clear water

Orient dock (print)

Gay Head

Beautiful boat

A perfect set

Sun and reflections

Reflections

Molly

Butler's Flat Lighthouse, New Bedford

Blue Boat 2006

Boats at Vineyard Haven

Laid up for the winter

Blue tarpaulin

Ron's Art

Bridge parapet

Ron's wonderful paintings can also be viewed at the Eisenhauer Galley in Edgartown, on the beautiful island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
They are also on display and sale at:
A Custom Frame Shop at Noroton Gallery
1977 Post Road
Darien, CT 06820

To contact the artist, e-mail druettron@yahoo.com.au

Greenport 1906 (print)

Vineyard Haven reflection

Floating leaf

Broken boat

Grounded

Orange dinghy

White boat

port and starboard

Small craft on Lake Tashmoo, Martha's Vineyard

Selected Works

A first Wiki Coffin Mystery
A Watery Grave
Murder most foul in Portsmouth, Virginia, is solved in the middle of the Atlantic.
A Wiki Coffin maritime mystery
Shark Island
Pirate-hunting on the coast of Brazil
A Wiki Coffin Mystery
Run Afoul
Wiki Coffin must clear his father's name of murder in this third seafaring mystery set aboard the U.S. Exploring Expedition
A Wiki Coffin mystery set in Patagonia
Deadly Shoals
Wiki Coffin joins the Patagonian gauchos to solve a grotesque murder
Castaway drama
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
A gripping tale of two starkly contrasting castaway experiences
Revenge at Sea
In the Wake of Madness
Murder and rebellion on the whaleship Sharon.
Women Under Sail
She Captains
Heroines and hellions of the sea.
Hen Frigates
Captains' wives at sea.
She Was a Sister Sailor
The Whaling Journals of Mary Brewster.
Surgeons under sail.
Rough Medicine
Whaling surgeons in South Seas.

Quick Links

Read my blog "Straddling the world of books" here -- it covers book news and publishing gossip in New Zealand and New York
South Pacific Pictures, multi-awardwinning producers of Whale Rider, Sione's Wedding and Outrageous Fortune
Wellington Hurricanes rugby football team -- the best!
St. Martin's Press and Minotaur Books, U.S. publishers of the Wiki Coffin series
Allen & Unwin: Publisher of the Year 2006
Eisenhauer Galleries (Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard)
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James L. Nelson -- raconteur of battle under sail
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