"Apart from the fact that they float ,there's little to associate these giants with the romantic notion of a vessel. rather than roaming the seas, they're locked into rigid routines......They're standardised to the width of the Panama Canal; ship made to fit a world made to fit them. They might as well have been chopped off the production line...... They are ghost ships, devoid of life, save for the shadowy figures seen through letterbox slots let into their flanks."

"The Sea Inside", Philip Hoare.

Philip lives alongside and swims daily in Southampton Water.
Yesterday I sketched this container ship leaving Southampton water as coast was buffeted by a gale.