Quotes About Sailing

Pretty didn't do it justice. I felt like we'd sailed into a world meant for much larger beings, a place where gods and monsters roamed freely.

The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by.

Fasten your jibs and loosen your mainsails, you lousy lubbers.

Tie telltales (made from yarn) to the shrouds as high up as possible.

A las doce y cuatro minutos de la noche del 13 de mayo de 1804, cinco días después de haber zarpado de La Guaira, el San Luis navegaba a la altura de Barranquilla cuando Salvany,

and he realized that he missed the old days of sailing, the ship almost willowy and hesitant, responsive to winds and weathers - not this hard, unthinking, mechanical drive toward a goal or destinations, so typical of the age itself.

There was the Dolphin coming up the river with all her sails. The curving tail of the prow was chipped and dull, the hull was battered and knobby with barnacles, the canvas dark and weathered, yet how beautiful she was! In

There will be two ships sailing, but you'll be on the Resolution, with Cook himself. Never put yourself in his way. Never speak to him. And if you do speak to him, which you must never do, certainly do to speak to him in the manner in which you have sometimes spoken to me. He will not find it as diverting as I do.

I'm glad you don't get seasick," he said. "I'm going to take you sailing." "Does a boat come with your cousin's house?" Cat asked, wrapping up the lettuce in a damp dish towel and putting it in the refrigerator. "No. I come with the boat.

Anchors aweigh, my boys,Anchors aweigh!Farewell to college joys,We sail at break of day.

the tenth of May, 1916, and they were standing at last on the island from which they had sailed 522 days before.

The Endurance sailed from Plymouth five days later. She set a course for Buenos Aires

of which the forward one was square-rigged

while the after two carried fore-and-aft sails, like a schooner.

Sailing Direction for Antarctica, these winds are described categorically:

They also mounted stubby masts to which a sail could be secured;

they were primarily pulling boats, designed for rowing, not sailing.

No choice remained but to hoist sail and try to claw their way offshore into the teeth of this fiendish gale.

The simple act of sailing had carried him beyond the world of reversals, frustrations, and inanities. And in the space of a few short hours, life had been reduced from a highly complex existence, with a thousand petty problems, to one of the barest simplicity in which only one real task remained—the achievement of the goal.

At noon they were almost abeam of Cape Demidov once more

advantage of the following wind to make for King George Island.

Hurriedly they ran up every sail to its full height and headed for the narrow opening in the reefs.

She sailed from London's East India Docks on August 1.

Then they came about once more onto the starboard tack. This time she just managed to slip through.