-Hammond Ines
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"It's out there at sea that you are really yourself." Vito Dumas
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"Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk."
- Sir Francis Chichester
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"Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems." Francis Stokes
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When a man comes to like a sea life, he is not fit to live on land. Dr. Samuel Johnson
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Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.
- Thomas Fleming Day
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"To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out." Sir Francis Chichester
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"The art of the sailor is to leave nothing to chance." Annie Van De Wiele
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Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know.
- Donald Hamilton
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He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. Thomas Fuller
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Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.
- John Masefield
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A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind. Webb Chiles
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"There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black." Nathanael G. Herreshoff
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"For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three." Hilaire Belloc
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"If you can not arrive in daylight, then stand off well clear, and wait until dawn. After all, that's one of the things God made boats for- to wait in." Tristan Jones
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"Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world." Nicholas Monsarrat
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"Without patience, a sailor I would never be." Lee Allred
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The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator.
- Edmund Gibbon
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The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared. Ted Turner
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"I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else." Joshua Slocum
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"When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea." Whoopi Goldberg
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"If you can't repair it, maybe it shouldn't be on board." Lin and Larry Pardey
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"There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does."
- Allan Villiers
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"The perfection of a yacht's beauty is that nothing should be there for only beauty's sake."
- John MacGregor
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"Only two sailors, in my experience, never ran aground. One never left port and the other was an atrocious liar." Don Bamford
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"Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him." Charles G. Davis
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The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.
- John Rousmaniere
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Prevention is, as in other aspects of seamanship, better than cure.
- Sir Robin Knox-Johnston
Via Chris@Bluemoon
1 comment:
Great quotes, indeed!
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