A sketch from the 'Umberleigh', capturing the effects of sunset. The sky is painted with horizontal layers of paint. These thicken on the right where yellow impasto paint indicates the presence of the setting sun. The surrounding sky is streaked with red and orange over a layer of thin blue paint. Above the setting sun thinner layers of paint, representing cloud, increasingly darken. Everett sailed in the steamer, 'Umberleigh', from Barry, Wales, to Vancouver, Canada, in December 1933 and returned in March 1934. Everett later observed that, four days out from Barry, they saw the sun every day of the trip as far as the Panama Canal. This meant that there was plenty of colour, light and effects for him to capture in paint. However once they passed through the Canal the weather deteriorated the closer they got to Vancouver. Apart from the oil paintings made on this voyage, Everett also produced 75 watercolour sketches of the Panama Canal.