"Fog's just lifting, throw off your bow-line, throw off your stern. Ya head up the South Channel, past Rocky Neck, Ten Pound Island...past Niles Pond, where I skated as a kid. Blow your airhorn and ya throw a wave to the lighthouse keepers kid on Thatcher Island. Then the birds show up. Blackbacks, haring gulls, big dump ducks. The sun hits ya, ya head north, open up to 12, steamin now. The guys are busy, you're in charge...Ya know what? You're a goddamn swordboat captain...Is there anything better in the world?"  



Merry Christmas.