Messing About in Boats

"Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing--absolutely nothing--half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."
                                         from Kenneth Grahame's  The Wind in the Willows

I can relate to Water Rat.  Boats (the little kind) can take you to those magical places like isolated bays, bird sanctuaries, long, windy rivers and island grottoes.  Or they can take you no place at all.  Simply anchored off a Caribbean island for a day or two--long enough to reread The Wind in the Willows is my kind of living!

"In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter.  Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it.  Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not."