"Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind."
John Masefield
"It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage."
George William Curtis
"Mackerel skies and mares tails, soon will be time to shorten sails."
Old sailors
"He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea."
Thomas Fulle
"A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's."
Bernard Moitessier
"The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats."
Ernest Hemingway
"There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea."
Joseph Conrad
"Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him."
Charles C. Davis
"Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be."
Dennis Conner
"Protesting the New York Yacht Club is like complaining about your wife to your mother in law."
Capt. Angus Walters
"The Americas Cup is a race of management, money, technology, teamwork and, last and incidently, sailing."
Bill Kock
"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
"Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made".
Robert N. Rose
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John Masefield
"It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage."
George William Curtis
"Mackerel skies and mares tails, soon will be time to shorten sails."
Old sailors
"He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea."
Thomas Fulle
"A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's."
Bernard Moitessier
"The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats."
Ernest Hemingway
"There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea."
Joseph Conrad
"Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him."
Charles C. Davis
"Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be."
Dennis Conner
"Protesting the New York Yacht Club is like complaining about your wife to your mother in law."
Capt. Angus Walters
"The Americas Cup is a race of management, money, technology, teamwork and, last and incidently, sailing."
Bill Kock
"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
"Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made".
Robert N. Rose
Move to next pages 1 2 3 4 5
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