I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell.
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I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat, and I built a boat.
We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.
My father liked doing carpentry work, construction work, in the summer vacation. And so my mother designed a cabin, a log cabin, like a - it was like a Swiss chalet. I was twelve years old, and my father and I built it on a rocky point peninsula out into Lake Superior.
I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander' novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship.
I built two forges when I was in my teens. I was just really, really into metalworking and making stuff.
I grew up sailing in the North Sea.
I went through a wood-chopping phase when I was nine or 10.
As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
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