This graphite sketchbook study by Maurice Prendergast captures a sailboat near the Granite Shore Hotel in Rockport, demonstrating his characteristic interest in capturing leisure activities and coastal scenes. The delicate pencil work reflects Prendergast's practice of using sketchbooks to explore compositional ideas and atmospheric effects before developing them into finished paintings. As part of his extensive sketchbook practice, this drawing reveals the artist's observational approach to rendering nautical subjects and the interplay of light on water.