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:
Ahoy, Pauline! Looks like Blogger is working for you today...
Nice quote. The painting is pretty, too...
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.
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