Sailing
is unlike almost any other activity, in that one does not come into sailing
with apprehension and slowly graduate to comfort with experience. Just the
opposite. Sailors who are really good, know everything about boats, and have
thousands of hours at sea are continually and unshakably terrified
while on the ocean. Not because they don't know what they're doing, but because they know the ocean so well as to fear it deeply, regardless of how conditions may initially appear. Novices, on the other hand, usually proceed with an affect which is considerably more blithe. As Brian Toss once said, there are only three types of sea-faring sailors — dead, novices, and pessimists. I knew this, but not well enough.
while on the ocean. Not because they don't know what they're doing, but because they know the ocean so well as to fear it deeply, regardless of how conditions may initially appear. Novices, on the other hand, usually proceed with an affect which is considerably more blithe. As Brian Toss once said, there are only three types of sea-faring sailors — dead, novices, and pessimists. I knew this, but not well enough.
Excerpt From: Moxie Marlinspike. “Hold Fast”