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The Virginia Pilot's Association provides ocean-going vessels with navigation services between the Chesapeake Bay entrance and the vessel's final destination within the Hampton Roads area. This ship, no longer in use, is shown tied up at a pier on the Elizabeth River, near the old US Coast & Geodetic Survey base. Presently, the Pilots use small boats (like the one shown here near the Ship's stern) operating from Lynnhaven Inlet in Virginia Beach, a location much closer to the Bay entrance.

Having been introduced to landscapes and seascapes by his artist mother, and with influence from his wife with a background in graphic arts, Vic Delnore has developed his own interpretations of landscapes, abstracts, and artistic scenes in graphite, pen and ink, oil, water media, and charcoal. His initial art training was in composition and perspective in The Hague, The Netherlands, followed by instruction in story illustration, pen-and-ink graphics at RPI, figure drawing and calligraphy at MIT/Harvard and ODU, and under nationally known instructors in watercolor and related media. He has exhibited in galleries on Florida, Cape Cod, the Outer Banks, and Hampton Roads since the sixties. Vic holds membership in the Lee County...