“What owning a sailboat offers, I think, is a kind of symbolic reunion with the natural world, a reassertion of basics. No matter that in actuality the sailor will venture no further from his boat’s dock than a few dozen miles, and then only on infrequent occasions. When he casts off the lines and takes his sailboat out on the water, he has placed himself in a situation that is about as independent of the complex social involvement of modern life as is possible. He can experience a self-sufficiency, an elemental freedom, that is otherwise lacking in his life.” Excerpt from “Small Craft Advisory” by Louis D. Rubin. Read it on Oyster → https://oysterbooks/book/LaJTvHxMFS3SHVqqg5Ejrj/small-craft-advisory
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