Restoration Project

"Restoration Project" could easily be called "Labor of Love".  That's what doing the painting was for me.  And, as I gathered from the guys working on her, that's what restoring the Dorothy Lee was for them.  She was built in 1934 by Bronza Parks in Bishops Head, Md for the purpose of oyster tonging and blue crab trotlining.  She is distinguished by and extremely long and narrow hull and the "dovetail' stern.  In boat parlance she is called a Hooper's Island Dovetail.

The painting was created on location at Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, MD during Plein Air Easton 2025.