But to suddenly find yourself in that same small vessel above a fleet, 40-foot-long midsea mastodon — one whose fluke alone could, with a cursory flip, send you and your boat soaring skyward — is to know the pure, wonderfully edgeless fear of complete acquiescence.
The boat soared upward, and I felt momentarily suspended in the air, as if I were a cartoon character who had just stepped off a cliff.
The quantity and value of fish landed by Scottish boats soared in 2014, according to new figures.
When she decided to move to London – where rent prices are soaring – she decided to rent a boat as it would be cheaper than a flat.
There is also a Greyhound station and an Amtrak stop, housed in a soaring H. H. Richardson-designed railroad station just steps away from the boats.
The huge Beach Pool Villas are once modern and stylistically traditional as well, each with a soaring, curved wooden ceiling that suggests an upside down boat hull.
A soaring home run is still a soaring home run.
Pyongyang claimed it had sent a "world-level strategic weapon" soaring "into the sky from underwater". State media ran photos of Kim aboard a boat holding binoculars as the rocket blasted out of the sea.
Not, I suggest, for reasons of efficiency any more – that ideological boat sailed with soaring energy bills, the fiasco of Railtrack, airport charges and bank bailouts.
But this year, with a world recovery and China racing like a dragon boat, the price has soared, to near $600.
