Life’s too short to be bored. If you’ve got Melville’s “damp, drizzly November in your soul,” it’s time for a new adventure: time to get away, to see something different, to do something you haven’t done a hundred times before, to take a few risks. If you love boating (and if you’re reading this, chances are you do), what better way to fight existential ennui than discovering new cruising grounds, where new adventures await, where you’ll see strange things and maybe even stranger people and where your anchor will take hold on history-laden seafloors? Brush the dust off your passport: It’s time to go foreign.
Of course, there are different degrees of “going foreign.” Canada and the Bahamas are foreign, but not that much different from the U.S., other than the first one being colder in the winter and the second having better conch chowder all year round. And both are easy to reach from the Lower 48. You can go foreign, in a way, without leaving the U.S.; Hawaii is a state, but