Thanks for sending us this. It does seem quite meaningful. If the Greeks and Romans had had GPS and VHF and diesel and fiberglass, I wonder if they would have been less focused on the ‘smiting’ that Poseidon and Neptune were doing so much of?

My personal commissioning ceremony was memorizing and reciting Tennyson’s “Ulysses” from the bow, which describes the intensity with which the protagonist would like to go to sea.

Andrew