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Ahead of us a fine, 14-knot southwesterly breeze ruffles a quicksilver sea. In the hazy sunlight the horizon line is a blur of radiant mist. Through it, as the ferryboat Provincetown lumbers closer to the starting line, we suddenly make out the tall, spectral shapes of Courageous and Australia, coursing around beyond the committee boat. Seeing them for the first time is surprising, like getting an unexpected glimpse of a pair of large white unicorns playing in a formal garden...
Most of the spectators aboard Provincetown seem to be masochists who laid out $100 for the whole series. On my right a pretty, middle-aged woman holding a small Australian flag confides that she comes from Virginia and watched the 1974 races from this very spot. "I've spent five days on this boat this time," she adds. "I feel as if I'd crossed the Atlantic in her." On my left is a Canadian. There is a heavy scattering of Australians...
...cannot say that a painting like Summer Open, with Mediterranean Blue, 1974, with its softly respirant field of ultramarine, "depicts" a seascape. But the feeling of look ing at it will be instantly familiar to any one who has looked at the summery Atlantic from a jetty in Provincetown, where Motherwell spends his summers. The blues suggest sea, as the black-and-white configurations of the Spanish Elegies evoke doorways, shadows and leather Guardia Civil hats, without in any way violating their essence as modernist painting...
Although it did cause substantially higher tides threatening northern coast towns, and causing evacuations from Provincetown to Plum Island, Belle's punch seemed to be losing instead of gaining steam...
...have traded their economic security (both were successful teachers before coming to the cape) in exchange for an unhurried, solitary and peaceful existence. On the weekends they walk the beaches, or visit the ponds in Wellfleet that Thoreau made famous. And they enjoy driving to Race Point beach in Provincetown--the tip of the Cape--and photographing the sunsets...