"Boats at the Claddagh"

The boats in this picture have perhaps been left to "dry out". The one in the foreground is missing most of its transom and there are holes
through the hull along both sides of the keel. But, one never knows with these Irish working boats. There is sufficient respect for the original builder's craft to view these vessels
not as derelicts but as "fixer-uppers". As a lover of wooden boats, that's how I saw them. As
an artist, I found the patina of various paint jobs and algae irresistible.