A small boat keeps the world big and I have always tried to keep the world as big as it possibly can be.
That’s my aim, not a big boat with which you circle the world as quickly as you can.
Thies Matzen / Wanderer III
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Houses are but badly built boats
Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final anchorage.
– Arthur Ransome, from Racundra’s First Cruise, 1923