 Seven, the sense of adventure when you set off from the dock into a watery world with unmarked boundaries. If you have a flat out there on the water, you can't simply pull over and wait for help. Boating veterans may live in the city, but their hearts are on the water. There are independent types who keep an eye on the weather and know such tricks as how to tell the distance to a storm by counting the seconds between lightning flash and thunder roll. Number eight, the sounds of boating.