Quotes About Sailing

I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.

I'll sit and see if that small sailing cloud Will hit or miss the moon.' It hit the moon. Then there were three there, making a dim row, The moon, the little silver cloud, and she.

hauled up our wine-casks, and hove them overboard, tied one to the other by a long line. Then the crew took to the boats and rowed shorewards, singing as they went, and drawing after them the long bobbing procession of casks, like

have been sailing with almost bare poles

Each adult was issued with a daily allowance of a pound of ship's biscuit, a pound of butter, and half a pound of cheese, all to be washed down with a gallon of (weak) ale. In addition, each passenger was given two pounds of salt beef or pork every week, as well as a ration of salted cod and dried peas.

Light dresses, blue eyes, the tinkling of glasses, the sea, the white sails. We sang snatches of song. And our cheeks became rosy.

We sail onto a war which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the only war which is a pleasure to participate in — the war for peace.

or Puritans sailing to America seeking religious freedom.

On this wondrous sea Sailing silently, Ho! Pilot, ho! Knowest thou the shore Where no breakers roar— Where the storm is o'er? In the peaceful west Many the sails at rest— The anchors fast— Thither I pilot thee— Land Ho! Eternity! Ashore at last!

On this wondrous sea - Sailing silently - Ho! pilot, ho! Knowest thou the shore Where no breakers roar, Where the storm is o'er? In the silent west Many a sails at rest, Their anchors fast Thither I pilot thee Land, ho! Eternity! Ashore at last!

We say we want kids to be joyful/unmaterialistic/resilient. That's what sailing kids are like. They climb masts & can correctly identify obscure plant life. They don't care what somebody looks like when they meet them, they sometimes don't even speak the same language, but they work it out. They don't sit around ranking one kind of life against another.

Vinnie used to say that I had social problems that teleported in like a cow into a nail salon. You'll be sailing along, tap dancing the small-talk boogie, and BOOM, that cow will show up, thrash around, and destroy everything in its path, and then leave the charming Connor to clean up the mess. Jillian

Sailing is the closest I can get to nature - it's adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks.

Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.

Yachting may call to mind champagne flutes and seersucker, but danger and risk have always been a part of the America's Cup.

Napoleonic naval wargames are less satisfying because so much of an encounter involves sailing in parallel lines while players roll dice at each other - and then the British win.

Sometimes I feel like I'm sailing on a sunken dream

I there before thee, in the country that well thou knowest, Already arrived am inhaling the odorous air: I watch thee enter unerringly where thou goest, And anchor queen of the strange shipping there, Thy sails for awnings spread, thy masts bare: Nor is aught from the foaming reef to the snow-capp'd grandest Peak, that is over the feathery palms, more fair Than thou, so upright, so stately and still thou standest. (A Passer-by)

The next day, Magellan gave the order to weigh anchor. The ships fired a salvo of cannon that reverberated among the splendid dark green mountains, gray ravines, and azure glaciers of the strait, and the armada set sail once again, heading west, always west.

So they went to sea because it was their livelihood, and in all likelihood their fathers' before them;

The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.

Obedient to her captain's will, The Black Pearl followed her dark angel over the azure water; as fast as the wind, as free as the men who sailed her. it was almost as though she knew she was a legend in the making, destined for adventures both great and terrible...

This sort of knockdown or capsize happens surprisingly often to small boats in bad storms. They usually survive, although their crews' nervous systems are never the same afterward. It has never happened to me. If it ever does, I'll take the old sailor's traditional retirement: walk inland carrying an oar until someone says, "What's that?," buy a chicken farm on that very spot, and never move.

Chapman's Piloting, Seamanship, and Small Boat Handling