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alternative to buying expensive coastal land for a villa
by the sea.
“I belong to a third group of boat-owners and sailors,
summed up in poetry, as in: “I must go down to the
sea again to the lonely sea and the sky”. We ‘dream-
ers of dreams’ follow an essential part of the human
psyche, either consciously or unconsciously. The devel-
opment of early man has over the years been viewed
from different perspectives. Until
fairly recently, the view was of early
man the great hunter followed by
women and children picking up
their scraps.
“However, with more studies into
human DNA and further archaeo-
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gathered. The making of watercraft
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Australia, as early as 60,000 years
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the sea and watercraft is in the DNA
of all of us, and I believe, leads us
to want to own and sail our boats.
Many present day sailing people are not interested in
male competitive sports, they are not interested in a
sea villa, they are moved by a deep instinct of our spe-
cies to be on or by the water.
“Throughout my life, beginning as a pioneering cata-
maran sailor, I have been aware of this instinct and as
a designer have tried to express it in my boats. Having