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This is a quote from Sterling Hayden’s Wanderer (though he was known mostly as a movie actor he was also a highly experienced sailor/seaman) “To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen, who play with their boats at sea - "cruising," it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about.”
I am not one of those who are lucky enough to have only limited means and marginal boats, but I do envy them for having the good fortune not to have to agonize giving up financial security, career and job which prevent many of us from going on our voyage.
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