What Floats Your Boat?

Has there ever been something that you wanted to try to make; a recipe, a special cocktail, a special kind of artwork? There's one that I've been thinking of for years. It was inspired by the work of Rob Adams, a British painter I met on travels to paint in France. He uses a fantastic handmade blue paper to create wonderful pen and ink drawings, sometimes with a hint of white gouache. 
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One of Rob Adams inspiring pen and ink drawings on the lovely blue paper
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I wondered what this would look like applied to a boat, and I tried it a few years ago. I especially liked using a lapstrake hulled boat for this, because there's something going on with the sides of the boat, it's not just a solid shape. I've uncovered that little sketch several times over the years, and decided to collect photos of lapstrake dinghies to see if I could make a series out of them using this medium. On our boat trips to Penobscot Bay and Mount desert Island, I was able to find some.
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I ended up finding three of these over the years and tried to take photos where the sun was creating interesting shading. It's amazing how many angles you have to photograph to get just a few that will work. And it's even harder when you're in a moving dinghy!
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These boats usually are tied to lovely classic sailboats. And often in pretty classic harbors, like Isle au Haut, Christmas Cove, and Northeast Harbor. They aren't quite as practical as inflatables, but they are oh so much more beautiful.

If you ever see a woman taking photos of boats from an inflatable, it's probably me, and if you check around you, you're probably in Maine in the summer!