07/24/2024
These photos are some of the best I’ve taken while being on the water and they evoke powerful emotions and memories such that, I feel like I’m back in that particular moment. One of my favorite questions to ask clients when we’re discussing the purchase of a boat is: “How does that feel?”. This helps everyone assess and determine where we at in the dialogue that takes place as we search for and find a vessel that best meets their needs. It’s how we do things at JFA Yacht & Ship. However, it’s also part of the relationship that boat owners, captains and crew have with the water and the maritime life we get to live.
What is it that draws us to the sea, and for some to write about this yachting life? One of the best explainations I’ve read is the following quote:
“No natural phenomenon has inspired so much fine writing as the sea. It has gripped our creative imagination, has aroused in us wonder and curiosity, fear, awe, exaltation; and has called forth profound and beautiful prose and poetry in response to the feelings and emotions it engendered. Of all things on earth, it is the restless and changing sea alone which we have been unable to accept or reject. Adventurers and explorers have challenged the deserts and the mountains, the tropical forests and the polar ice. Ordinary people have wondered at them and some have lived among them.
But the sea has “engaged” us, has teased us and seduced us, has fed us, tormented us, cradled us. If Earth is Mother, then perhaps Sea is Spouse. However we think of the sea, the fact emerges that it stirs the wellsprings of creativity which give birth to the artistic offspring created by our imagination and dammed by the sea.”
-A.C. Spectorsky, from The Book of the Sea
Enjoy
