Thread: Why we boat
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Old 07-26-2012, 12:34 AM   #12
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Like all here-I just do not get the same feeling on land as on water. On the one hand-we leave the dock and have total control over and responsibility for, our existence (and those with us). yet, we all know that control is but an illusion that can be taken from us in an instant. An interesting dichotomy and much like life itself. Total control and total insignificance in the same moment.

I have always maintained that no one who ever is out at sea in a smaller boat (as opposed to a cruise ship!), on a still, moonlight, cloudless night with phosporescence trailing in a wake, will ever look at things the same way again. To me, it was magic the first time and it remains magic each and every time since.
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