I promised our conductor that I'd send her the link to Billy Joel's a capella song 'The Longest Time' but I was distracted when I found out about his love of boats. He grew up on Long Island, and worked on a oyster boat for a while.
This song, The Downeaster, Alexa, was written in the 1980s, and is about the depression that hit the "outer lands" when the government instituted heavy-handed fishing regulations that put many fisherman (who had been doing so for generations) out of work, which in turn hit the local economies of these areas hard.I think the song captures the ocean and the hardships faced by fishermen whose livelihood is threatened.
The Downeaster Alexa

Click through the picture for the video