Inshore Fisherman and Lobster Boat

Beautiful to watch but always a little scary to contemplate, a fisherman heading out alone on a rough sea to deep water. And the truth is that most of them couldn't swim! It still makes for one of the nicest of marine compositions and I have long been hooked on painting them. The old canvas 'steadying sail' was not used to propel the boat but just to keep it headed into the wind and 'steady' as he lowered his traps overboard. Inshore fog usually burned off quickly as the sun came up. In the meantime, it made the shoreline much more interesting and mysterious as it hung like a veil over the land.