Three boats and a wreck

I spent most of my early life working with B/W and Sepia and have a great love of this medium.

I like the composition but the overall effect is too "muddy" for my liking.

My thoughts would be to lighten the midtones , go for more shadow contrast and lift the highlights.

If this is film , make a positive from the negative, manually make the same adjusments as above and do some doofering with a cotton ball in the sky area to give a more erie effect, maybe consider "antiquing with sepia" ( might be interesting.?)

Black and white is awesome if handled right.

Ashley, thanks for your suggestions, yes, this is film, 6x9 pinhole camera.

I am in early stages of B&W experiments so don't know much how to get the best of the medium... tried to tweak contrast/brightness a bit and reloaded the photo, still not very good...