molly peterson

At all times, keep a constant check on your gear. Watch out for chafing. Chafing is generally worse in a calm than it is in a sea. Use your pump periodically whether you need to or not. Have anchors and life preservers ready for any emergency. Nothing very serious happens to a skipper who is ready for anything. H.A. Calahan, Yachtsman’s Omnibus

People do awful things to each other. But it’s worse in places where everybody is kept in the dark. Information is light. Information, in itself, about anything, is light. Tom Stoppard

What then is the spirit of liberty? I cannot define it; I can only tell you my own faith. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the mind of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias; the spirit of liberty remembers that not even a sparrow falls