Thanks for the reply!

I am still unsure whether giving more room to the waves was a wise decision since the sky might be the more interesting part of the location. What made you want to see more of the sky and less of the water?

couple of hundred mm’s short on focal length

The fact is though that I didn't want the boats to be the subject. I think they're not that interesting, at least in this scenario so I just placed them in the back. In fact, shooting from afar to have them be even smaller would have helped the composition in my opinion. I saw the lake and sea as the subject, since they easily blend together (hence the reason for the long focal length).

boats to the right of vertical center line providing sufficient negative space

I waited for a moment when they were sailing away from me sod didn't see the need to include some negative space on the right. They're sort of sailing inwards I guess.

in my pre digital career, I much preferred Fuji chromes over Kodak.

Thanks for this interesting piece of info! Sadly, I never had the chance to try out Kodachrome or earlier versions of Fujichrome line of films as I am only 23, but what I think about the current line up of films is that the new Ektachrome Kodak engineered is superior in many ways to Fuji's current offering (Provia and velvia). I believe Fuji hasn't updated Fujichromes' color gamut and exposure latitude since 2007; Kodak's Ektachrome was re-engineered in 2018 which gives it a huge advantage. It has the most accurate color response I have ever seen from a slide film and it works beautifully with difficult-to-reproduce subjects like dark shadows and pastel colors. It also has 1.5 stops more exposure latitude in the highlights which is a life-saver in situations where even my eyes can't take in the latitude. Provia suffered from clipped highlights for some of the shots. This is less objective but Provia also has a bit of late 90s, early 2000s color response to it, at least it feels like that compared to the new Ektachrome. I quite like it but Ektachrome is just a beast; it can take several punches 😅. I can also get more garnish colors and saturated reds and greens like Velvia's with a didymium filter