# The El Faro Salute! arrives at home

**URL:** <https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-el-faro-salute-arrives-at-home/64207>\
**Category:** Maritime News\
**Created:** [September 23, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-el-faro-salute-arrives-at-home/64207 "2022-09-23T17:55:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![KPChief](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/kpchief/32/26_2.png) [@KPChief](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/KPChief)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-el-faro-salute-arrives-at-home/64207/1 "2022-09-23T17:55:44Z")

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> **[The El Faro Salute! arrives at home](https://knox.villagesoup.com/2022/09/19/the-el-faro-saulute-arrives-at-home/)**
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> The formal dedication will be 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24.

What say the forum art critics?

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**Author:** ![Steamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Steamer](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Steamer)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 12:35pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-el-faro-salute-arrives-at-home/64207/2 "2022-09-24T12:35:57Z")

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OK, I’ll start … To me it looks like a poorly executed, and distasteful to the point of insulting, amateur exercise in plasma cutting.

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**Author:** ![Lee\_Shore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Lee\_Shore](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Lee_Shore)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 12:52pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-el-faro-salute-arrives-at-home/64207/3 "2022-09-24T12:52:15Z")

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I second that. Rockland’s heart is in the right place but that piece of cartoon “art” sucks. A simple plaque with the names of the sailors lost, common in many waterfront New England towns, would have been more appropriate.

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**Author:** ![Kennebec\_Captain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/kennebec_captain/32/13_2.png) [@Kennebec\_Captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Kennebec_Captain)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-el-faro-salute-arrives-at-home/64207/4 "2022-09-24T13:06:27Z")

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People strongly disliked the Vietnam War Memorial in DC at first because it wasn’t a traditional war memorial. But views have changed. Evidently the artist that designed it saw something the rest of us could not see.

I think the El Faro Salute will stand the test of time but we shall see.