Seaworthy
About 71% of Earth's surface is covered with water, mostly by oceans, and much existential freedom comes from knowing that you can navigate the “big part” in a small boat.
It’s satisfying, even if not practical, to contemplate the thought of leaving the dock in Pensacola, Florida in my 26’ sailboat and traveling to Barcelona, or the South Pacific islands, or some such place. It’s also good to read about the sailor's who are actually doing those things. One such sailor is 79 year-old Sven Yrvind:
It will take him the best part of a year to complete the voyage; a prospect that holds no fears for this sailor-philosopher. “Only the true, eternal, endless, blue, wet, deep ocean can cure me from nostalgia, sehnsucht and saudade and bring me back to the spiritual state of my youth,” he wrote. “That’s why I long to be out sailing again… If all goes well the first day I will have the wide open spaces in front of me, three- four-hundred blissful days at sea.”
Fair winds, and following seas!
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