I have been fascinated by sailboats since I read Richard Henry Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast in high school. From the perspective of a land-locked teen the romance of sailing ships was enticing indeed. So it should not be surprising that I return from my travels with photos of boats. Here are five frames of boats from Boston. You can also view these photos for the next few weeks in the Five Frames Gallery.
White Boat
Here is a white rowboat waiting on dark water for its owner to come and row it home.
The Fleet
Community Boating is a sailing center on the Charles River which has been in operation since 1946. The repeating pattern of the boats caught my eye.
The Roseway
The Roseway is a gaff-rigged schooner that has had a long and varied role on the seas. She currently serves as a training vessel for the World Ocean School. She is a national historic landmark.
Waiting
I found these waiting boats at the Boston Rowing Center. The center provides open-water rowing for youth and adults. The center is a project of the Hull Lifesaving Museum. I am a sucker for boats and their reflections.
Waterfront
The Boston Waterfront near the New England Aquarium, which is just out of the picture on the left. The boats in the foreground are mostly owned by the Boston Harbor Sailing Club, to which I was a member years ago. The closest boats are Solings. The Soling is an international open keelboat which was used in the Olympics from 1972-2000. They are racing boats, pure and simple; fast, responsive, stable, and wet.
Bonus Frame
See Red Boat, which was the subject of a previous post. The Red Boat photo came from the same 2018 trip to Boston as the ones here.
These photos were taken with a Canon 6D wearing a Canon 24-70mm f2.8 zoom lens. The photos were processed from RAW files using Darktable, which is free and open source software (FOSS) available for Windoze, Mac, and various flavors of Linux.