Sailing Grounds
Buzzards Bay, Cape Cod and the Islands
Buzzards Bay
Cuttyhunk Fairhaven
Falmouth
Hadley's Harbor
Marion
Mattapoisett
Padanaram Woods Hole
Vineyard
Sound
MiddleGround Tarpaulin
Cove, Naushon Island
Waquoit
Bay
Marthas Vineyard
Lake
Tashmoo Edgartown
Nantucket
Sound
Nantucket
Cotuit
Rhode Island
The
Christmas Fleet
Yuletide,
Mistletoe and Scrooge
Catboats of the Cape and Islands
Working for the Steamship Authority
I lay on the
bowsprit, facing astern, with the waves foaming into spume under me,
the masts with every sail white in the moonlight, towering high above me.
I became drunk with the beauty and singing rhythm of it,
and for a moment I lost
myself-actually lost my life.
I was set free!
I dissolved in
the sea, became white sails and flying spray,
became beauty and rhythm, became moonlight and the ship and the high dim-starred
sky!
I belonged,
without past or future, within peace and unity and a wild joy,
within something
greater than my own life,
or the life of Man, to Life itself!
To God, if you want to put it that way.
- Eugene
O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night
