This graphite sketch by Maurice Prendergast depicts figures seated in a boat near the Granite Shore Hotel in Rockport, capturing a casual leisure scene typical of the artist's interest in contemporary recreational activities. The drawing demonstrates Prendergast's fluid line work and compositional sensitivity to figures in landscape settings, rendered with the spontaneity characteristic of his sketchbook practice. As part of his working papers, this study reflects the artist's process of observing and documenting everyday moments in the coastal New England town where he frequently sketched.