"There is satisfaction in taking a small boat,
built with one's own hands, out onto 300 feet of blue water,
knowing that it is all right! It is no ocean craft, but it growls back at whatever is heaving it about, slowing a little if necessary,
giving the sense that if common sense is followed,
it can do what it was meant to do: to allow a critter with legs
to cross to the next island. One can go quite a long ways,
crossing to the next island; even to return."
[Conrad Royksund, Stockton Island, one of the Apostles]