To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out." — Francis Chichester Copy Share Image
Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems. — Francis Stokes Copy Share Image
If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better… — E. B. White 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
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
Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk. — Francis Chichester Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at… — Charlie Cook 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
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 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
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
Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to… — Herman Melville 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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
