| Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much. A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind. For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind — and the boat made three. The sea hates a coward. It's out there at sea that you are really yourself. The art of the sailor is to leave nothing to chance. The lovely thing about cruising is that planning usually turns out to be of little use. There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. Cruising has two pleasures. One is to go out in wider waters from a sheltered place. The other is to go into a sheltered place from wider waters. |
2011-04-02
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