This week I do a solid review of the Douglas and Beaufort Sea State Scales. I present some curious but true notions about how water affects us physically and emotionally. I have lived on the sea most of my life. I’ve traveled on the oceans by sailing vessel, power boat, yacht, and commercial vessel. I relate my relationship with the sea from an early age as a way of illuminating the emotional and physical effects of water travel. Of course, being a screenwriter, and a sailor, I take some creative liberties as one does when telling stories in the cockpit while enjoying a sundowner or two. I examine some far-out notions I created about the relationships between sea states and your emotional states. My construct may be completely wrong. Every great story has at least a kernel of truth.