Tranquillity.

Tranquillity moored., originally uploaded by Bay Photographic.

There are at least eight boats registered with British Waterways with the name 'Tranquillity'. This is one of them, a Norman 23 that I owned a couple of years ago, and the first boat I kept at Bridgehouse Marina on the Lancaster Canal. She was also my first motor cruiser in a while, after having owned yachts for ten years or so.
I remember the day I took this photograph with remarkable clarity (given my inability to remember my own name sometimes).
The canal was mirror flat calm. I had moored about a mile north of Garstang and spent the afternoon fishing, reading the newspaper and listening to the radio. I had forgotten about everything that a few hours before had seemed so important. Work, money, relatives, ill health, cutting the lawn, the onset of senility and decrepit old age all faded into insignificance. It was the sort of day that makes all the downsides of boat ownership like antifouling and mooring fees seem immaterial.
Looking at this photograph brings it all back to me again, so vividly I could still be sitting in the cockpit waiting for the sun to dip below my imaginary yardarm and watching the tip of my float.
In my little world that is what photography and boating are all about.
Tranquillity.