A little local knowledge.
Boat photographs, art, gifts and the details that make a good print.
More guides and references
- Ashore, for a moment.
Stories for a life drawn to the water. Useful advice for bringing a little of it home.
- Make a good picture of it.
Start with the photograph, choose the finish and keep the details that matter.
Ashore, for a moment.
- The photo is already on your phone.
You do not need a dramatic sea or an expensive camera. You need a clear photograph of the right boat, with enough room around her to make a good picture.
- Give it a little room.
A tall sail, a long hull and an open horizon each ask for a different shape. Start with the picture, then the place it will live.
You know where they would rather be.
- For the person who would rather be sailing.
The useful clue is not that they like boats. It is which boat, which water and which days they talk about afterwards.
Your boat. Your story.
- Get her good side.
A motorboat portrait lives in the line of the hull, the shape of the windows and the space around the bow. Start with those details.
- Why we keep portraits of our boats
A boat portrait is part likeness, part record of a life spent aboard.
Take the long way home.
- The shape of a wake
Sometimes the boat is only the beginning of the picture. The line it leaves behind does the rest.