[He gives a patented vampiric wry chuckle.] If you are picturing high adventure, don't. There are few things as tedious as a long sea journey, except when it's terrifying. Maybe if you were an officer on a warship... but I was a deckhand on a tobacco merchant. Dull as death.

[Except when it was terrifying. These are about the two impressions the sea has had on him. Still...]

I'm glad you remember. I can't imagine a whole life without ever seeing the ocean.