Passages

[jotruk]

just for thought:  AS sailors we have done so much for so long with so little that now we feel we could do any thing for ever with nothing

[roybaots]

 She is all that inspires me and all that motivates me. Pride, knowledge and respect doesnt keep her from trying to take that from me .........Goerge Stadel

[newt]

May the wind on your back not be your own....And if it is, well I have tiller to sheet steering anyway, nobody is in my boat but me!

[Captain Smollett]

Ran across this one today and it was just too good not to share, and it relates well to this thread also.

Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of
moving them.  They are definitely inferior things, belonging to the
vegetable not the animal world, rooted and stationary incapable of gay
transition... The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content
thenceforward with a single anchorage.  The desire to build a boat is the
desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting
place... When it comes, the desire to build a boat is one of those that
should not be resisted.  It begins as a little cloud on a serene horizon.
It ends by covering the whole sky, so that you can think of nothing else.
You must build a boat to regain your freedom.

--Arthur Ransome

[Captain Smollett]

A liveaboard friend of mine, Tim, is using this one as his email signature:

"It is not the direction in which the current flows
Nor is it the direction in which the wind blows
Rather, it is the setting of the sails
That enables a boat to reach its destination
Sail on strongly; be great of heart."

Maori Proverb

[Tim]

I like that!