Down at Beach Haven we learned at a very young age to sail sneakboxes and race around Mordecai Island.
If a Skipper or Skipperette could sail a tricky, tippy sneakbox, he or she was ready to graduate on to Comets, Lightnings, E-scows, and could definitely handle a Catboat. This transparent watercolor of Catboats Sailing was my first. I was commissioned to do two more “just like it,” but of course each was a little different – all had catboats, blue sky with white clouds and blue water with whitecaps. I wanted the viewer to feel the wind.
