Quotes About Nautical

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The name skyscraper is originally nautical. Skyscraper is the tiny, triangular sail flown from the top of the mast.

I descended the poop

You could no more educate sailors in a shore college than you could teach ducks to swim in a garret"—

It's a perfectly handy skill for any boy to know." "Certainly it is, if he needs to hail a passing tugboat.

Moby Dick is my favorite book —I've been rereading it every year since I was sixteen. 'Call me Ishmael' is the greatest first line in a novel ever written.""I, myself, am not fond of animal stories.

I was always good at fixing things growing up. I wanted to work on boats. That was what my dad did.

The sea is a body in a thousand ways that don't add up, because adding is too stable a transaction for that flux, but the waves come in in a roar and then ebb, almost silent but for the fain suck of sand and snap of bubbles, over and over, a heartbeat rhythm, the sea always this body turned inside out and opened to the sky, the body always a sea folded in on itself, a nautical chart folded into a paper cup.

The sea is a body in a thousand ways that don't add up, because adding is too stable a transaction for that flux, but the waves come in in a roar and then ebb, almost silent but for the faint suck of sand and snap of bubbles, over and over, a heartbeat rhythm, the sea always this body turned inside out and opened to the sky, the body always a sea folded in on itself, a nautical chart folded into a paper cup.

The owl and the pussycat went to sea, / In a beautiful pea green boat. / They took some honey, and plenty of money, / Wrapped up in a five pound note.

One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.

One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.

She measured 144 feet over-all, with a 25-foot beam

craggy peak off the port bow. It was Annenkov Island

At noon they were almost abeam of Cape Demidov once more

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.

they would be immune from arrest, safe for as long as they were at sea.

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

Three sheets in the wind', Giles, the sign of nautical distress in the absence of naval signals.

afterward. The Saxons called the stern of a boat the aft and their word ward meant "in the direction of." Thus aftward meant "toward the rear of a ship," or "behind." Over the years, the word aftward changed in spelling to afterward and came to mean "behind in time," "later on," or "later.

Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes: A thing, as the Bellman remarked, That frequently happens in tropical climes, When a vessel is, so to speak, snarked.

THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND (Nautical term): A reference to the sheets (ropes) of a sail becoming loosened, rendering the sail useless (drunk)

snub-nosed motor-boat

As boys going to sea immediately become nautical in speech, walk as if they already had their sea legs on, and shiver their timbers on all possible occasions, so I turned military at once, called my dinner my rations, saluted all new comers, and ordered a dress parade that very afternoon.