It is about safely getting our boat into harbor and making safe passages. We have other outlets for romance and love. I think it is wrong to romanticize trying to shoot a star sight on a heaving wooden deck and translating that to a wildly inaccurate chart and hoping the dim fire on shore is the real signal and not a "wrecker". I'm pretty sure every single sailor in the past would give their eye-teeth for access to navigation aids we have right now. I don't think they thought it was romantic at all, except for when they were bragging of it during shore leave.

Really - that whole angle has so much wrong about it I don't know where to begin. It's like romanticizing the old days when you took a horse and buggy to town, washed your clothes in a river and got an orange for Christmas. I can't believe everyone then wouldn't have rather had a Toyota, a washing machine and a new playstation instead.

Are you hoping for an orange this Christmas?

Mark