There is something in floating wind power that touches an ancient aspect of the psyche. Perhaps it is our seagoing instinct that it speaks to, the voyage out from terra firma to the edge of the world, to conquer foreign lands, to the place of monsters and mermaids, to the Great Unknown.

It certainly resonates with a sense of adventure captured in great maritime novels by the likes of Herman Melville, Jules Verne, Jack London, and Joseph Conrad — who called the sea the “accomplice of human restlessness”.