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Is there any indication that Sam wanted to go to sea before he states that he wants to go to sea?
No, there wasn't; Sam had no wish to go to sea. Sam is referencing what his father said earlier in the book (pgs 8 and 9 in my copy):
Dad didn't like the land. He liked the sea, wet and big and ...
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