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the guy who rows you across the river and somehow makes it look like philosophy.
means a boatman skilled at operating small craft on water, historically for hire, now also a byword for pen-making and surf-soaked competence.
from from old english waeter plus man, first meaning a ferryman on the thames who rowed passengers for coin; the word later drifted into a pen brand founded by lewis waterman in 1883, and into modern surf culture describing anyone fluent in every discipline the ocean throws at them.
thames guildwatermen needed a seven-year apprenticeship, like a trade
pen brandlewis waterman named it after his own surname, luckily
surf termnow means fluent in surfing, paddling, and diving all