Quotes About Seafaring

The sea is my business.

Kochi, formerly called Cochin, is a former European settlement with a large Christian population and a seafaring heritage. It is a town of enormous charm that reminds some visitors of the Caribbean more than India.

My father was the captain of a cargo ship. When I was about two years old, we used to sail with him. The crew of his ship would dress me up in fancy dress and make me dance for them. I was a performing monkey!

As a child, I always wanted to live on a boat.

Their minds are of the stay-at-home order, and their home is always with them—the ship;

Assignments ashore and on ship came and went, but one's academy classmates were forever. From Manila to Panama or Honolulu to Guantánamo Bay, the fraternity gathered just as if its members were still on the banks of the Severn.

Having established itself securely on shipboard, the chronometer was soon taken for granted, like any other essential thing, and the whole question of its contentious history, along with the name of its original inventor, dropped from the consciousness of the seamen who used it every day.

There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.

I really like the pirate look.

My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.

I think Vikings have always been popular, haven't they? I remember being a kid and being in second grade reading a book about this Viking warrior.

When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.

Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.

Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way!

The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.

As a general rule, the Chinese seldom ventured west of Sri Lanka, the Indians north of the Red Sea mouth, and the Italians south of Alexandria. It was left to the Greeks, who ranged freely from India to Italy, to carry the greatest share of the traffic.

It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

One place like another. That was true enough, he thought. Even the merchant seamen were the same. Every ship was the last. One more voyage, just enough pay and bounty saved, and it would be used to buy a little alehouse, a chandlery, a smallholding from some country squire. But it never seemed to happen, unless the man was thrown on the beach in peacetime, or rejected as a useless cripple. The sea always won in the end. The

anything was better than the horrible state of things below. I remember very well going to the hatchway and putting my head down, when I was oppressed by nausea, and always being relieved immediately. It was an effectual emetic.

Rats, even dead rats, are as familiar to sailors as sunburn. Or fleabites.

Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, land-thieves and water-thieves.

press on around the coast to Leith Harbor. But the Caird's rudder was now lost.

She was a barkentine—three masts