FWIW -- It should be "MAIB", not "MIAB". Unfortunately, my fingers
transposed the middle letters when I typed them . Don't you just hate it
when you display your ignorance to a world-wide audience!
Again, here's the quote from "The Wind In The Willows." As always, I
keep it handy to remind myself just why I love to spend so much time on my
boat, either in or out of the water.
I had an early dawn experience with a sea otter. We were anchored in a
cove in the San Juan Islands when I was startled awake by a "whack, whack,
whack." I went bounding into the cockpit, thinking we had dragged anchor
and were bouncing off the rocky shore. Instead, a sea otter was floating on
his back near our hull, hammering at the oyster cradled on his tummy with a
rock. I watched him finish his breakfast before crawling back into my
sleeping bag for more sleep. It was one of those memorable, magic MAIB
experiences.
Joe Kidd M15 #207 "Poco A Poco"
There is nothing -- absolutely nothing --
half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats...
or with boats...
In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter,
that's the charm of it.
Whether you get away,
or whether you don't;
whether you arrive at your destination
or whether you reach somewhere else,
or whether you never get anywhere at all,
you're always busy,
and you never do anything in particular,
and when you've done it
there's always something else to do,
and you can do it if you like,
but you'd much rather not."
-- Kenneth Grahame, "The Wind In The Willows"
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