Boats and sailing Quotes · Page 2

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

— Donald Hamilton

I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.

— Richard Bode

For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.

— Hilaire Belloc

If you can not arrive in daylight, then stand off well clear, and wait until dawn. After all, that's one of the…

— Tristan Jones

There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence…

— Errol Flynn

O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won

— Walt Whitman

The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

— Dale Carnegie

When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.

— Whoopi Goldberg

I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.

— Joshua Slocum

He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.

— Hammond Innes

I want a boat that drinks 6, eats 4, and sleeps 2.

— Ernest K. Gann

Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.

— Thomas Fleming Day

Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

— Francis Chichester

The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.

— Joshua Slocum

You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes,…

— Bernard Moitessier

To reach a port we must set sail

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

It's out there at sea that you are really yourself.

— Vito Dumas

Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.

— John Masefield

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

— Ernest Hemingway

To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out."

— Francis Chichester

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

— Brooks Atkinson

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in a boat…

— Alex Blackwell

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

— Joseph Conrad

The only way to get a good crew is to marry one.

— Eric Hiscock