Stormy seas
My father had sailed the coast of Maine and the islands of the Caribbean. He knew about the sea. When I was a boy, he took me to a rustic and rundown ship museum somewhere along the coast of Maine. There were perhaps fifty paintings of ships under sail. Some ships sailed stormy seas, the captain standing the foredeck, fierce wind, cresting waves. My father told me that these paintings were intended for the captains who had braved the fearsome seas. The paintings of cargo-laden ships, plying calm waters? Those were painted for the merchants who owned the ships.