Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself. — John Rousmaniere Copy Share Image
Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind. — John Masefield Copy Share Image
A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. — Tristan Jones Copy Share Image
O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together. — Thomas Fleming Day 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
Spirits rise as the sails fill... Gone is the sea's glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare. Close the hatches and… — Jim Moore Copy Share Image
I can't wait for the oil wells to run dry, for the last gob of black, sticky muck to come oozing out… — Tristan Jones Copy Share Image
The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The planning stage of a cruise is often just as enjoyable as the voyage itself, letting one's imagination loose on all kinds… — Jimmy Cornell Copy Share Image
The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from… — Lewis Francis Herreshoff 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
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
I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that… — Bernard Moitessier Copy Share Image
A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
