If not us, then who
The best captains are ashore
Better to drink rum than sit around!
Time flies, how quickly nothing is drunk
(German seamen jokes)
He drank again.
…. Wasn’t it the best time, the time when
we were young at sea; young and had nothing?
At sea, which gives nothing but
hard punches – and sometimes an opportunity
to feel your own strength – isn’t that the
only thing you all mourn?
Joseph Conrad “Youth” 1898