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A friend and me took the slowboat from Shanghai to Hong Kong in 1993.

— Emily Maitlis

There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used…

— Mark Twain

We were more fortunate than most, because [Bernard] Leach had been in America on a lecture tour in 1950, and we made arrangements to…

— Warren MacKenzie

I was five years old when we got on a boat for a month and headed over to Australia. I dont have great recollections…

— Angelos Postecoglou

The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.

— Agatha Christie

As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond…

— Junipero Serra

“continued through January, sending visitors fleeing back to the mainland like snorkelers”

— JoAnn Bassett

The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by hardy Polynesian sailors, who crossed thousands of miles of open ocean in primitive canoes, braving violent storm-tossed seas…

— Dave Barry

In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days or years.…

— Katherine Mansfield

It was this epic adventure and I had this mad idea that it would be interesting to follow the Greek hero Odysseus on his…

— Bettany Hughes

I kind of was shoveled onto a boat at 11 and went to England. I didn't have any parent watching over me. It was…

— Michael Ondaatje

Being born in the Pacific Islands, the most travelling I did when I was little was getting the ferry over to the next island.

— Monica Galetti