The Winslow Mail

BALTIC IS A PEACEFUL SEA
Arnold Bennett Tells the Pleasures of
a Day's Sail Through Varied
Seascapes and Landscapes.

Although there is a lively pleasure
in discovering even the dullest and
smallest towns and villages, the finest
experience offered by the Baltic is the
savor of the Baltic itself in a long
day's sail. I mean a day of 14 hours
at least, from six o'clock in the morning
till eight o'clock at night,
through varied seascapes and landscapes
and varied weather. As soon
as the yacht leaves harbor in the
breezing chill of sunrise she becomes
a distinct entity, independent, self-reliant.
The half dozen men on her,
cut off from the world, are closely
knitted into a new companionship.
The sense of which is expressed not in
words but by the subtleties of tone
and mien; and if only one among
them falls short of absolute loyalty
and good will toward the rest, the
ramble is a failure, and the air of
weariness poisoned. The dictum of an
older and far more practiced yachtsman
than myself used always to be,
"I'll have no man aboard my ship
who can't smile all the time." It is
a good saying. And it could be applied
to my yacht in the Baltic. We
had days at sea in the Baltic which
were ideal and thrilling from one end
to the other—From "The Log of the
Isle," by Arnold Bennett, in the
Century Magazine.