Father Quote by Johann Lamont

As a youngster, I travelled every year across the sea to Tiree. On occasion, we ventured to Skye on the Kyleakin-Kyle of Lochalsh ferry,…

— Johann Lamont

I grew up sailing in the North Sea.

— Laura Dekker

My dad always wanted to sail. They lived on a boat for eight years.

— Jeffrey Skoll

My grandad was a prawn fisherman who built his own boat.

— George Clarke

Dad was a manager at Newport, over on the Isle of Wight. I remember going from Portsmouth on the hovercraft to the Isle of…

— Mason Mount

Mum and Dad ran a seaside hotel in Anstruther in Fife. It was a family run business, so I worked in the kitchen and…

— Edith Bowman

When I was a kid, all our seaside holidays were spent on Canvey Island or in Clacton-on-Sea.

— Harry Redknapp

When I was ten years old, my family left a cold, damp prefab in West Fife and moved to Corby, Northamptonshire, where my father…

— John Burnside

I grew up in a little fishing village called Anstruther in East Fife in upper Scotland.

— Edith Bowman

Sailing became one of the mainstreams of my life. I suppose my father was an influence. I remember seeing a photo of him at…

— David Crosby

Mine wasn't a lakes-and-boats kind of childhood. I grew up on a Glasgow council estate with a single mother. For our holidays, we went…

— Kelly Macdonald

My father, Arthur, was a fishmonger, first at Billingsgate market and later in Camden Town and Golders Green.

— David Jason