sloop n. a one-masted sailboat with a fore-and-aft…

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

— Edward Gibbon

Fortunately the boat we rented had a motor in it You will definitely want this feature on your sailboat too, because if you put…

— Dave Barry

Spirits rise as the sails fill... Gone is the sea's glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare. Close the hatches and ports! We're…

— Jim Moore

“I love sailboats. No other man-made object blends design, craftsmanship, passion, and pure optimism the way a sailboat does. With a good sailboat, anything…

— John Kretschmer

“Life with out purpose is like a sailboat with out it's sail, with out one...you'll get nowhere.”

— Timothy Pina

At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains; the untethered…

— Robert Grudin

Building a company is so much like racing a sailboat.

— Diane Greene

I've been a river kayaker for a long time and I've done quite a few trips. I like kayaking and I like canoeing. I…

— Misha Collins

If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Life changes so quickly and like a sailboat you either wait for whatever cross wind comes your way to move you on your journey…

— Wes Adamson

“Living aboard one's sailboat and having neither house nor vehicle nor job, and needing none, would be hubris—the most arrogant presumption—and therefore suitable punishable…

— Matthew Goldman

Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.

— Dave Barry

I am happiest in the brush and by myself - whether that's the woods of northern Minnesota or the wilds of Alaska behind a…

— Gary Paulsen

“A good sailboat (and skipper) works with the sea and therefore reaps the benefits of kinship with the world that no amount of money…

— Rick Page

At a fundamental level photography is much like pointing, and all of us occasionally point at things: look at that, look at that sailboat,…

— Keith Carter