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Saturday, November 2, 2013

Holy Crap video: Fishing Boats In Rough Sea

Reminded me of Dr. Johnson on the subject of sailors - all of the quotes below are from Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson:

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of being in danger.

Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape from it, because it is then too late to choose another profession; as indeed is generally the case with men, when they have once engaged in any particular way of life.

4 comments:

  1. It's amazing the captain can keep this thing upright.

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  2. This would be my WORST NIGHTMARE!! These little boats are amazingly sea worthy however...

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  3. I was seasick right off, just watching it. Then I settled down and just jumped ship. Drowning put me out of my misery!

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