Just a few things about JDL, not me, and boats. Remember the cover of 'Encores', see the link Murray McLeod has given, JDL pictured in a harbor.

And, on the liner notes of 'Just Passing Through' he tells about his booking a freighter, hauling bauxite between Texas and Surinam, being the only passenger besides officers and the crew.

He explains about the song 'Flying Fish' on that same album:
in 1971 we all helped deliver the schooner "Argosy" from north Germany to the south of France. On this long passagewe came to realize our affinity for this little fellow, whose world of sea and air is our world of sail and hull"