Sailing And The Sea Quotes

There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.

All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

The planning stage of a cruise is often just as enjoyable as the voyage itself, letting one’s imagination loose on all kinds of possibilities. Yet translating dreams into reality means a lot of practical questions have to be answered.

The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.

At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.

The sea is as near as we come to another world.

A ship is always referred to as ‘she’ because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

If you don t know where you are, a map won’t help.

For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.