"Sun Over the Yardarm"
Original Watercolor (Commission painting)
Framed size: 25" x 33"
The Yardarm Restaurant on the Fairhope Municipal Pier operated for approximately 41 years, from the early 1970’s until around 2014. The expression, “when the sun is over the yardarm”, is used to describe when people begin drinking alcohol, or
the time at which it is appropriate to do so. A “yardarm” is a horizontal bar on the mast of a ship, and it is supposed that when
the sun passed it at a certain time of day (around noon), sailors were allowed to drink.
