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