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wrack

@neauoire [shakes head] It makes you wonder why they cruise at all if they're so insensitive to the environment/isolation they've made such an effort to reach.

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Devil Lu Linvega

@ccohanlon I think they were sold the idea of being here, but they don't understand the place at all.

Most arrive in a hurry, drops their anchor, and leave the next day, and we've been watching them come and go for days now. I suppose, they work hard, then they relax hard. They don't take anything in, they're consuming leisure.

wrack

@neauoire Which describes, more generally, how they 'do' seagoing, 'do' the sea. Without deep curiosity, commitment, or (heaven forbid) love.

S/Y Perelandra

@neauoire @ccohanlon I talk about this all the time with my family. In southern New England it's become pretty commonplace to run a generator on deck. It's brutal. I don't like to be haughty or unfriendly, but the people that cruise like that aren't there for the same reasons as I am, and we hold very little in common as mariners.

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