The wind behind you

The image of Willard Bond's oil painting, "Running Home," featured in his New York Times obituary yesterday ("Willard Bond, Vivid Artist of Yachting, Dies at 85"), is so striking, my first thought was, Why had I never heard of this painter?—especially given that my daughter and her husband are boating enthusiasts, even competing together in the 2010 Pacific Cup sailboat race from San Francisco to Kaneohe, Hawaii.
    The obituary says that J. Russell Jinishian wrote in his 2003 book, Bound for Blue Water:

Crews scramble, sails drop and raise in a flurry of activity. The tension is high, adrenaline pumps, orders are yelled, spray flies, seas and heads pound, your whole world spins as you are unconscious of everything else around you. If you want to know what it is like to be in the heat of a yacht race, just look at a painting by Willard Bond.

From the examples provided in the obiturary, I can believe the concluding sentence.
    I must add two caveats, however: Only two examples are given in the obituary¹, and author Jinishian has a financial interest in Bond's work—seeing as how he is an art dealer and profits from selling Bond's paintings.
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1. You will see dozens more images at Google's finding for "Images for Willard Bond."