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“Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! ‘Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of the old life and into the new! Then some day, some day long hence, jog home here if you will, when the cup has been drained and the play has been played, and sit down by your quiet river with a store of goodly memories for company.”
—Sea Rat

We shall break out the jib and the foresail, the white houses on the harbour side will glide slowly past us as she gathers steering-way, and the voyage will have begun! As she forges towards the headland she will clothe herself with canvas; and then, once outside, the sounding slap of great green seas as she heels to the wind, pointing South!

—Wayfarers All, Sea Rat

“Is it so nice as all that?”
“Nice? It’s the only thing!” Said the water rat solemnly as he leaned forward for a stroke. “Believe me my young friend, there is nothing, absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing…” he went on dreamily. “Messing about… simply messing… about… in boats”