But when I was something like a year and a half old, I was taken to see the century tides, and I jumped into them in the middle of winter (and was pulled out of the freezing water and shucked of my red-and-white snowsuit and wrapped in a sand-scratchy blanket in the back of my grandparents' car), so the general feeling in my family is that the affinity started early.

That is a strong affinity. : ) I went sailing in the archipelago on the west coast of Sweden from an early age, and I do like the sea, but it was a much stronger experience to me the first time I went to the Swedish mountains. As a teenager I never wrote poetry about the sea, but I did about the mountains.