Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world. — Nicholas Monsarrat Copy Share Image
When you're on a boat, 15 nautical miles off the coast and you're with a bunch of fishermen, they don't give two… — Tanc Sade Copy Share Image
I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls. — Hugo Vihlen Copy Share Image
The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“An orphans curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! How more horrible that that Is the curse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has… — Alan Villiers Copy Share Image
No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure. — Felix Riesenberg Copy Share Image
Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his oars and was rowing again. 'May I… — Tim Powers Copy Share Image
A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. — Tristan Jones Copy Share Image
It takes a minimum of six people, working in close harmony, to successfully flush a nautical toilet. That's why those old ships… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know. — Donald Hamilton Copy Share Image
I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze. — Richard Bode Copy Share Image
For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“In a French accent developed through a lifetime of using English I said, 'Hello sir, I would like to row the English… — Tim Fitzhigham Copy Share Image
There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence… — Errol Flynn Copy Share Image
“The monster under my bed is pitchpoling. See, when you’re in heavy seas you always face the bow forward. Steer into the… — Kristy McGinnis Copy Share Image
I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else. — Joshua Slocum Copy Share Image
He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger. — Hammond Innes Copy Share Image
