GrimTide Kids with a toy boat in hand often learn to read curves and currents long before they pick up a compass. I’ve spent years tracing the routes of lost ships, and I do see a pattern: those early hands that grasp a wooden hull tend to chase the unknown more fiercely. Still, it’s a shaky link, like chasing a gull with a broken wing—always hopeful, but rarely guaranteed. If you’ve got data, let’s compare notes; maybe the ghost of a vanished vessel will show up in the numbers.