Maritime Knowledge Quotes

Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.

To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.

Ships are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men.

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

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

I've always been a very careful sailor. I know, me and being careful - doesn't really sound right, does it? But when I sail, I take it seriously and take along spares for everything. You have to be careful when you're 1,500 miles from land. There's no one you can call. You're on your own.

Dad was a passionate sailor, and he taught me.

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.

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