Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Literature: Musings on Fore and Aft Rigging




The fore-and-aft rigging in its simplicity and the beauty of its aspect under every angle of vision is, I believe, unapproachable. A schooner, yawl, or cutter in charge of a capable man seems to handle herself as if endowed with the power of reasoning and the gife of swift execution.

~ Joseph Conrad

Header: Two Sailing Boats by Iwan J. Azis

2 comments:

Timmy! said...

Ahoy, Pauline! Looks like Blogger is working for you today...

Nice quote. The painting is pretty, too...

Pauline said...

Not really; I can only post in HTML and, as you can see, the formatting really deserves a stronger word than "bad".

It isn't the post I would have liked to put up; let's just leave it at that.