Maritime Experience Quotes

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoever I go.

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.'

Once Henry had heard a crying noise at sea, and had seen a mermaid floating on the ocean's surface. The mermaid had been injured by a shark. Henry had pulled the mermaid out of the water with a rope, and she had died in his arms..."what language did the mermaid speak?" Alma wanted to know, imagining that it like almost have to be Greek. "English!" Henry said. "By God, plum, why would I rescue a deuced foreign mermaid?

I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of a tree seen in the clear water under the boat was the only evidence of its existence; though a few hours ago it had formed so prominent an object.

I do not know whether I have been a good seaman, but I know I have been a very faithful one.

Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more and more.

I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea. The dangers of it only make present to us the peril inherent in all existence, which the stupid, ignorant, un-travelled land-worm never discovers; and the art of it, so mathematical, so exact, so rewarding to intelligence, appeals to courage and clears the mind of superstition, while filling it with humility and true religion.

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

There is something about going to sea. A little bit of discipline, self-discipline and humility are required.

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake.

I find Suez astonishing for the first hour. It is a ditch in a desert, but a stunning one. The sensation of being hemmed in by huge ships, moving at a stately pace through a man-made waterway, is extraordinary.

I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.

I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.