Sailing And The Sea Quotes

It’s out there at sea that you are really yourself.

And after two days in civilization we realized we could never stay for long and started to plan our next adventure.

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.

The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.

At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.

I can’t wait for the oil wells to run dry, for the last gob of black, sticky muck to come oozing out of some remote well. Then the glory of sail will return.

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

Spirits rise as the sails fill…
Gone is the sea’s glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare.
Close the hatches and ports!
We’re sailing again!

I don’t know who named them swells. There’s nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls.

It’s hard to get lost if you don’t know where you’re going.

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat.

The sea is as near as we come to another world.

There is a tide in the affairs of men