"...the desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place...It is for that reason, perhaps, when it comes, the desire to build a boat is one of those that cannot be resisted. It begins as a little cloud on a serene horizon.  It ends by covering the whole sky, so that you can think of nothing else."

-Arthur Ransome-

Racundra's First Cruise, 1923