How I Came to Hate Sailing
7 min readFeb 25, 2020
It started with Moby Dick.
I was in college and twenty years old — about the same age as Ishmael and the only age at which one can actually revel in Melville’s masterpiece. The book was assigned reading, but once I began I could not stop and plowed straight through, skipping both college classes and personal hygiene until I reached the end.