Jim Elliot Quotes

I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.

My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped.

Sailing is a big outlet for me.

I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before.

I want to conquer the unknown. I really, really want to live on the water and captain my own boat. I have dreamed of going around the world on a boat.

I love sailing but hate cruise ships.

I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world.

I'm not an experienced sailor.

I've been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, 'I know how to do this; you don't have to come with me anymore.'

I'm an avid sailor, and my first time exploring the Dalmatian Coast and the Croatian islands was very special.

We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound.

I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat. And I built a boat. I had a boat built for me, I mean, and my second day out to sea I realized that (a) I'm not a sailor, and (b) I have no knowledge of basic navigation.

The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.

With my husband, I have twice sailed across the Atlantic in a sailboat one third the length of the Mayflower. I know Atlantic gales inside and out. I endured one that lasted for three days with winds up to fifty knots.

When you're on a boat, you're going to little islands and stuff. It's not a partying kind of thing.

I was never part of the sailing circle, but I enjoy when I'm invited to sail.

I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.

I grew up sailing in the North Sea.

Dad was a passionate sailor, and he taught me.

A yacht is not for me. I don't enjoy it.

I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.

I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.