The real Moominpappa is the creation of the late, great Tove Jansson (1914-2001), a Finnish author who wrote a series of books about the Moomin family, their friends, and their adventures. If you have never read any of her Moomin books, I strongly recommend them (start with Comet in Moominland). They are "for children," but like all good children's literature they give something to everybody.

Like Moominpappa, sometimes I want to be at sea, looking for adventures in exotic new lands; often, though, I simply feel at sea, especially in this the strangest of all the strange lands.