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    SHORE THING

    Sep 10, 2019 4 minutes
    By Pim Van Hemmen

    Born in the Netherlands and raised near Cape Town, South Africa, Onne van der Wal is considered one of the planet’s best nautical photographers. In October, his latest book, Sailing America, will be released. We caught up with him at his gallery in Newport, Rhode Island, to learn more about the project.

    You were a 25-year-old professional sailor when you were hired as the bowman and engineer on the second Flyer for the 1981-82 Whitbread Around the World Race. How did that come about?

    I wrote a letter to Cornelis “Conny” van Rietschooten, that won the Whitbread in 1977-78. He liked that I was a trained machinist, because he needed someone who could take things apart and put them back together. That’s what got me hired. I was the third crewmember hired for the second , and Conny sent me to the Royal Huisman shipyard in the Netherlands to attend to the construction of the boat.

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