Cruising sailors make lists like stagnant water makes mosquitoes. - Reese Palley

The single commandment of anchoring is: Thou shall create scope.

It's not that I’m so exciting, it’s just that everyone else is so dull.

Only in a small sailboat at sea are we reminded of our natural place in the universe. The sea forces upon us a natural scale. The sea limits one day’s passage to a hundred miles, not too different from the scale used by the ancient Hebrews to measure the throne of God. Small boat sailors parse the structures of the sea in days and weeks and months, not flashing minutes as the land bound do. They have recaptured nature’s pendulum.