Sailing Quotes

“Better drowned than duffers. If not duffers won't drown.”

“Boats are a good deal more than wood and canvas, or steel and wire. They are living things, with characters and personalities of their own.”

“A duffer is a person who is all thumbs.”

“There is a witchery in the sea, its songs and stories, and in the mere sight of a ship, and the sailor's dress.”

“There is no class of men who are so entirely abandoned to spiritual neglect as seamen.”

“I went to sea from the most tender age and have continued in a sea life to this day... Wherever ship has gone, I have gone.”

“A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast.”

“I found that a flogging on board of a man-of-war is no momentary thing.”

“I learned to sail before I could walk. My father taught me.”

“But to proceed with our own affairs: It was the 18th day of May, about 10 a clock in the morning, when we weighed anchor from the Bay of Campeachy.”

“Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.”

“I just had this idea that if you could get the weight lower you could get away with less of it and you could get a smaller boat and a more efficient one.”

“My ship was also my friend; I loved her.”

“Sailing is a great way to get away from everything. It's just you and the elements.”

“My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in each race, just to be consistent.”

“A sailor's life is at best but a mixture of a little good with much evil, and a little pleasure with much pain.”

“To be a sailor is to be a wanderer.”

“The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail itself.”

“It's a game of chess on water.”

“The America's Cup is a campaign, not a regatta.”