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Quotes About Yachting

Once Is Enough, Miles Smeeton's thrilling (and even funny) account of his two separate and disastrous capsizes aboard his yacht Tzu Hang in the Southern Ocean west of Cape Horn.
~ Peter Nichols
Yachting has long been ruefully likened to standing in a cold shower while tearing up money." 42.
~ Peter Nichols
Between the five of us there was the strong bond of the sea, and also the fellowship of the craft, which no amount of enthusiasm for yatching, cruising, and so on can give, since one is only the amusement of life and the other is life itself.
~ Joseph Conrad
Yachting may call to mind champagne flutes and seersucker, but danger and risk have always been a part of the America's Cup.
~ Mary Pilon
If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face.
~ Elizabeth Banks
Most people say, "I can't wait to retire so I can play golf," or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.
~ Stan Lee
the amateurs, who had come out to see what was doing in the Crimea, as they went other years to Norwegian fishing or Baden roulette, were scattered about in yachting costume, and stirred to a little excitement as the Russian shells began to burst among us, and the bombs to fall with thuds loud enough to startle the strongest nerves.
~ Ouida