Seafaring quotes

[Frank]

Thought of Capt K when I read this one:

"Any darn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk."
-Sir Francis Chichester while loading his boat with gin.

:o ;D ;) :D

[SalientAngle]

grog

[Frank]

I really like this one:

It was JRR Tolkien who said,   "Not all who wander are lost."

[Frank]

this is simply so true...

"At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much." -Robin Lee Graham

[sharkbait]

"Shut  up and steer,I'm sick of listening to it"
John Dour to shipmate while rounding Point Conceptcion

[Seadogdave]

Experience is what you get when things don't go your way!

[s/v Faith]

I know it is corny, but

"If it is gonna happen, it will happen out there".

Capt. Ron

[Frank]

"Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know." -Donald Hamilton

[w00dy]

"It?s apparently a basic human instinct, when presented with something that does
one thing very well, to instantly want to use it for something else..."
-Phil Bolger

?If God had meant for us to have fiberglass boats, he would have planted fiberglass trees.?
-L. Francis Herreshoff

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."
Jacques Cousteau

"In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds."
Thor Heyerdahl

[SailorTom]

I wonder where Herreshoff mined his Bronze?

[Frank]

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most." -E. B. White

[Tim]

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most." -E. B. White

So fitting  ;D

[CharlieJ]

Don't know where it came from but-

A ship is safe in harbor-
But that's not what ships are made for

[w00dy]

So true...

[Frank]

"The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat." -L. Francist Herreshoff

[w00dy]

Good one!

[Tim]

Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.
Sterling Hayden

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Walter Scott

[Captain Smollett]

"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."

- Oliver Wendel Holmes

[Frank]

I'd never heard that one......wonderful lines! Grog to ya

[Frank]

"It looks like frozen snot." -L. Francis Herreshoff, looking at a Herreshoff Bullseye built of fiberglass