I have very few illusions about boats...
I don't over-romanticize, put it on a pedestal, or fetishize them because, when all is said and done, a boat is just a boat.
Webb Chiles is currently doing his thing on a Moore 24 which is not the sort of boat most folks would consider for sailing off into the sunrise on but I'm pretty sure that "Gannet" will take Webb wherever he wants to go. That said, so would any boat that Mr Chiles decided to sail off on...
It's really never about the boat but always about the person sailing it.
The boat's just a tool...
Of course, in time and when deserved love and respect come into play but that's something else entirely.
