Seafarers And Spacefarers

In the Time Patrol series, Poul Anderson links seafarers to spacefarers and timefarers. See Battle At Sea. In The Enemy Stars, he links them just to seafarers. A retired spaceman lives on an island in the Outer Hebrides surrounded by his pilot's manuals and by stones, skins and gods "...brought from beyond the sky..." (2, p. 14) These are compared to a sea captain's Bowditch and souvenirs.

I found it instructive to google "Bowditch." The island setting and the comparisons made closely connect the traditions of seafaring and spacefaring. As in the Time Patrol passage, the main connection will turn out to be that their kin mourn farers who do not return.