What do you need to do/learn for your final project?

For my final project, I am thinking about close reading the bay/boat when I go to my next sailing class, and writing something about that. Whenever I am at that class, I always think about Moby Dick because of how boring it is. We are using the wind to sail as they did back then, and I swear it is the most boring thing ever. We rig the boat, and then sail around Mission Bay for like an hour, and all I think is that everyone on that boat in Moby Dick must’ve been on the border of insanity and I can understand why Ahab lost it. Because staring at the water going by, the sunlight reflecting off of it, and literally nothing happening except just trying to catch wind and steer somewhere, is horribly boring. I think I want to observe this boredom in parallel to the chapters in Moby Dick that are, also, dreadfully boring, dragging on, slowly floating through page after page of nothingness.

I think sailing also gave me a lot of context for this novel. Even though it was just on the bay, it did allow me to imagine how it would be if the water just stretched on and on for miles, as well as how fluid of a state the water is in. I can always reach down and touch it, but it never stays in one place.