[Romulus]

If it isn’t salt water, you aren’t really sailing.

[Tax-chick]

I’ve heard that said. My father was a 30-year Navy man, so until I went to college in San Antonio, it was all salt water, all the time.

Now my daughter is in the Coast Guard ... I think the ocean thing skipped a generation.

[Labyrinthos]

If it isn’t salt water, you aren’t really sailing.

Or fishing.

[Alberta's Child]

If it isn’t salt water, you aren’t really sailing.

There was a time when I would have agreed with you. That all changed the moment I stood on the north shore of Lake Superior late in October about 20 years ago.