Maritime Art

The 52-foot racing yacht Dorade careens in a very stiff following wind on her way to a record performance in the 1931 Transatlantic Race, with the spinnaker sheet led to windward of the forestay and eased out.

When Hurricane Michael hit the Florida Panhandle with 150-plus mph winds, a boat warehouse near Panama City collapsed like a house of cards.

The storm clouds and a veil of rain move off over dark water, taking the violence of the tropical hurricane with them.

Barnegat Light, New Jersey

It’s well before dawn in Maine, and 15 miles offshore, in the early morning murk, a Jonesport lobster boat is getting ready to go to work.

Photography by Onne van der Wal

Don Demers’ oil painting “Rescuers from the Deep; USS Scamp” tells a dramatic tale.

Cape Rosier, Maine by Pim Van Hemmen

San Diego, California by Pim Van Hemmen

Wind and waves set a double-ended, lug-rigged fishing boat to plunging through the white-capped rollers off the coast of northern England and Scotland.

Anyone who’s driven down into the town of Watch Hill, Rhode Island, and along the stretch of harborfront knows the scene.

Lady Liberty New York, New York

The wave in the foreground dominates the scene in Paul Garnett’s dramatic Charles W. Morgan Off Cape Horn.

Photography by Andrew Mills

Photography by Pim Van Hemmen

They were known to the British as the “Big Class.” The America’s Cup boats of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were unruly — sometimes downright perilous — racing machines.

Vineyard Colors

Image: Onne van der Wal

Glassy waters swirl around a buoy in the harbor at Southport, Maine.

Nantucket Harbor, Massachusetts. We’re looking across the main channel toward Brant Point Light; the Coatue Wildlife Refuge is behind and to the right of this iconic island symbol, with Wauwinet in the distance.

Photographer: Jay Fleming

“In my dreams, I am standing a 2 a.m. wheel watch, running down some long, lonely reach of flat water, snow-capped mountains glistening in the moonlight on either side … [cruising] endlessly through the black Alaskan night,” says watercolorist Cooper Hart.

Vineyard Colors Camera: Sony SLT-A77V Shutter speed: 1/125 second Lens focal length: 400mm Aperture: f/9 ISO: 800