“No man who has tasted the slap of salt spray and felt a deck heave beneath his feet is ever the same again. To a greater or lesser extent his sanity is affected, but the vast majority manage to retain a semblance of rational behaviour. There exists a breed whose desire is not the edge of the precipice most of us contrive to cling; these abandoned creatures have plunged blindly into the void. Their case is hopeless – they are, quite simply, stark staring bonkers as they essentially indulge themselves in the quant pastime of messing about in boats…”
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