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
The Spray. From a photograph taken in Australian waters. From Sailing Alone Around the World by Captain Joshua Slocum, The Century Co., New York, 1901More on the spray
