Ran Ortner is an American artist, surfer and passionate about the sea and the ocean, who creates impressive photo-realistic paintings of waves. Using oil paint, Ran Ortner plays with great ease on the lights, the focal length and the details of his huge waves, making the result very realistic. (Via)
Acorn dinghy at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding
S boats leading the division on our way to the windward mark in Race 4 of the Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta. Photo by Cory Silken.
Good morning. Here are some S Boats in what is apparently the hot new racing class of 2013.
Aquila screaming through the ACYR. Photo by Cory Silken.
Lars is a beast.
S Class Squaw racing the cannon ball course on day 3 of the Antigua Classic Yachts Regatta. Breeze on! Photo by Cory Silken.
Lashings complete and trimmed. Time to get the floorboards in, handle some touch-ups here and there, and brush hot boat sauce over all.
NSFW? A nude boat (you can see everything!) plus that text certainly qualifies this as boatporn.
Child of bounty longboat replica. Captain Ron Ware at the helm.
19 persons, 41 days on sea (48 altogether), 5.800 km in a 7m x 2m open boat. Only one died, when fighting with inhabitants of an island.


