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.
“This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.”
“The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.”