‘The Sea’s most powerful spell is romance, that romance which, in the course of time, has gathered round the ships and the men who sailed upon it –the strange coasts and their discoveries, the storms and the hardships, the fighting and the trading, and all the strange things that happened and still do happen to those who venture upon it’
Welcome to my sailing pages, just notes for what Nicholas Bouvier would have called ‘L’usage de la mer’
- the Role of the Skipper