"His eyes were drawn to the wall covered with half-models of boats Ogden had built. 
These were small-scale carvings of the boats reduced to their most essential lines—
no details of deck, fittings, sail plan, cabin structures—just the elegant curves of the 
hull carved in bas relief, as though Ogden had slit a hull down its center line and 
mounted it on the wall."
                                                                                                          -Chapter 4