Cruising has two pleasures. One is to go out in wider waters from a sheltered place. The other is to go into a sheltered place from wider waters.
Howard Van Lieu Bloomfield was born in 1900, graduated from Harvard in 1922 and died in 1998. His career was in journalism and he wrote several books including Sailing to the Sun (1946), Last Cruise of the Nightwatch (1956) and The Compact History of the United States Coast Guard (1966).
In the 1930s, when editor of the pulp magazine Adventure (published from 1910-1968) he was quoted as saying:
A good writer is never paid what he is worth.
And isn’t that the truth!