EXTRA -- Special guest post from the author's dad!

Verlyn takes a sailing class and finds New York harbor more confusing than it appears on his map. (If he takes a few more classes, he will learn to call it his “chart.”) He devotes four paragraphs to listing passing watercraft and visible landmarks, and is careful to use the currently fashionable word “pivot.” He then wonders what it must have been like in the old days, when there were even more vessels in the harbor, probably.