If a man must be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as
anything, perhaps a bit better than most. A small sailing craft is not
only beautiful, it is seductive and full of strange promise and the hint
of trouble. If it happens to be an auxiliary cruising boat, it is
without question the most compact and ingenious arrangement for living
ever devised by the restless mind of man--a home that is stable without
being stationary, shaped less like a box than like a fish or a girl, and
in which the homeowner can remove his daily affairs as far from shore
as he has the nerve to take them, close hauled or running free--parlor,
bedroom, and bath, suspended and alive.
~
E. B. White
2 comments:
Sailing has a lot of allure for me too. Even tho it's been around 35 years since I was in a little sailboat of any description. Will you take me put one day?
There is a high correlation between the artistic temperament and a love of sailing so it is entirely conceivable that a dose of sailing may precipitate a sailing epiphany (There is NO known cure).
So consult your bank manager in case you may want to immediately purchase a yacht (you will) and read (or re - read) the entire set of Arthur Ransomes 'Swallows and Amazons' books.
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