And I live next door to the town library with a huge nautical department, so this is free.

His wife did the initial editing of 1.5 mil. negatives, slides and RAW files, to the final 200 images that are the body of the book.

There's a fine introduction by Herb McCormick which answers my first question. Onne was a sailor first, a photographer second. That explains why he sees and captures sailing motion like few other photographers. He's the master of the deck-shot.

I'm convinced it's not the tools that make the artist, it's the eye. To be a great sailing photographer(or oil painter), I think it shows, if you also are a sailor.

He has no remarks about digital vs film in his short Acknowledgements, but I especially liked this;

He gave special thanks to his dad,"..who early on, while I was a teenager, tried to get me to pick up a camera, and shoot, and to whom I replied,'I'm not interested in all the F-stops and shutter speed nonsense'.