Discovered there was an audiobook of the unfinished 21st Aubrey/Maturin novel.

Discovered there was an audiobook of the unfinished 21st Aubrey/Maturin novel. It’s very short, and obviously incomplete, but this passage, from about halfway through it, is maybe the best ending you could ask for. Jack and Stephen sailing forever, their adventures timeless and unending.

Quietly indeed they sailed along, with gentle breezes that wafted them generally northwards at something in the nature of five miles in the hour, northwards to even warmer seas. Little activity was called for, apart from the nice adjustment of the sails, and although the exact routine of the ship was never relaxed nor her very strict rules of cleanliness, these long sunny days with a soldier’s wind seemed to many the ideal of a seaman's life – regular, steady, traditional meals with the exact allowance of grog; hornpipes in the last dogwatch, the deep melody of the Doctor’s cello from the cabin and the cheerful sound of the gunroom’s dinner; the future lost in a haze somewhere north of the equator.