Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Started Sailing by John Vigor

Author:John Vigor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sheridan House
Published: 2005-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

TIP: The electronic instrument you’ll bless most on a circumnavigation is a depth sounder.

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OBSESSION

Beware, you may become obsessed with your boat

My dictionary defines obsession as “. . . a persistent idea, desire, emotion, etc., especially one that cannot be got rid of by reasoning.”

People aren’t warned when they take up boating that they may become obsessed, but it does happen to a lot of them.

The famous author and sailor, E. B. White was one.

“Waking or sleeping, I dream of boats—usually of rather small boats under a slight press of sail,” he wrote in a delightful essay entitled “The Sea and the Wind that Blows” (from Essays of E. B. White).

He said that so much of his life had been spent dreaming of small craft that he wondered about the state of his health, for he’d been told that it wasn’t a good sign to be always voyaging into unreality, driven by imaginary breezes.

But he concluded: “If a man must be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.”

A lot better than most, actually. Obsessing about boats keeps you out of most trouble, as long as you remember to be polite to landlubbers and (especially) as long as you can control the spending urge.

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