I’m a big fan of boats.

This makes me neither particularly erudite nor exclusive in my personal preferences. While some may scoff at these “holes in the water,” there’s a mental benefit to these aquatic forms of displacement that are both scientific and self-evident. But if you are a proud boat owner — or of any kind of watercraft — I don’t need to tell you this. 

You would most likely respond, “Why did it take you so long to learn this, landlubber?”  

I was out on a sailboat this past weekend like I’m sure many of you were, or at least on some other system of aquatic propulsion. We didn’t travel very far on this particular day, but maybe that isn’t even the point. The point is, we could have. Whether you’re re-reading “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” or watching the cinematic opus “Master and Commander,” what is indelible is the sense that, when you’re in a boat, you may go on a real adventure.

Even if it is only to the other side of the pond.

And you might even want to share that adventure with someone else! Though as you know, in many parts, people like being plain and quiet and have no use for nasty, disturbing, uncomfortable adventures. Why, they might even make you late for dinner!

“Yeah, but we do finance,” you might say. Close the books at month’s-end, keep the working capital ... working and the cash flowing. Is that it?

Or, might it be the energy of Kapitus CFO Anthony Rose, who tells new hires, “Don’t let my vision of you be greater than your vision of you”? Sure, maybe he thinks about d