How to improve this view

To me, the boat action and the foreground compete with one another with the result that neither gets the focus it deserves. I’ve done an absolute rubbish edit (so bad that I’m not going to bother uploading my sidecar) and left so little of the image that the quality of what’s left is poor, but the crop zeroes in on what I find to be the interesting part of the image. This appears to be a race…what the bleep are those miscellaneous boats doing in the middle of the Hobie fleet?