A Cape Island style fishing boat, 'putt-putt-putting' off to the fishing grounds with steadying sail in place, always catches my attention. This one, under a soft sky and by an autumn colored rocky foreshore, presented all of the elements for a good marine composition. It would have been just as good painted in watercolor but I just happened to be in an "oil" mood that day. The Cape Island Boat is low to the water on sides and stern which makes it ideal for launching and retrieving lobster traps on the Nova Scotia coast. It was designed by Ephram Atkinson of Cape Sable Island, after observing seagulls floating easily over waves. The steadying sail is in a fixed position - fore and aft, which keeps the boat headed into the wind and steady, when the traps are being loaded or dropped overboard.
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