Quotes About Seafaring

The waves thus produced have become legendary among seafaring men. They are called Cape Horn Rollers

By two-thirty, the Caird was a little more than 3 miles off the coast

I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.

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.

The sailor man had one meat leg and one hickory leg, and he often said the wooden one was the best of the two.

A seafaring uncle had given it to her mother who in turn had bequeathed it to Marilla. It was an old-fashioned oval, containing a braid of her mother's hair, surrounded by a border of very fine amethysts.

because they knew the sea better than they knew land;

If you want to see sharks, I'd go to the port side. That's the left side for you landlubbers.

In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found.

Seafaring can be lucrative - the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months' work - but the isolation is a heavy price to pay.

I went into the Navy because I love the ocean, and I am still privileged to have a place that I can go to that's by the water.

"What is the Black Spot, Captain?"… "That's a summons, mate."

In this mythology of seafaring, there is only one means to exorcise the possessive nature of the man on a ship; it is to eliminate the man and to leave the ship on its own. The ship then is no longer a box, a habitat, an object that is owned; it becomes a travelling eye, which comes close to the infinite; it constantly begets departures.

Ferdinand Magellan reached the western edge in 1520, confirming for the first time that the earth was flat.

I was pleasantly surprised to find out that pirates did wear eye patches and have peg legs and have brightly colored beads. I never knew what the beads were for. They really were for frightening and terrifying their prey.

The ship's knowledge extended to navigation, to the handling of weather and awareness of necessary maintenance.

Ephron sembrava classificare i pirati insieme alle tempeste; erano solo parte dei rischi che un buon capitano doveva affrontare

The idea that the world was flat was never put forth by a seafaring man. It was a tale told to landsmen, or to merchants who might be inclined to compete for markets, for in those days the source of raw material was closely guarded.

the compass not having been invented, sailors tended to hug the coasts.

they hardly ever ventured very far from the sea.

It was the sea, and their evident mastery of shipbuilding and navigation

la guerra, el comercio y la piratería son una trinidad inseparable.

I spent six years before the mast on all types of merchant ships, and naturally I feel well qualified for seafaring roles.

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.