These photographs were taken while doing research for my Women & the Sea topic with Erica Lush, captain of US-22 Intrepid. Moving forward I have plans to make paintings with these images as reference that bring into the conversation ideas such as spacial relationships, action and reaction, and the figure. With these I would like to eliminate the landscape backgrounds and most of the information that would put the figure into context. Instead, I would like to focus on the figure, her actions, and those reactions. More to do with power, struggle, and poise than the glamour of sailing on a lovely summers eve.