Quotes About Navigation

Mispronouncing "buoy." The thing that floats in a navigation channel is not a "boo-ee." It's a "boy." Think about it. Would you call something that floats "boo-ee-ant"? Also, in a similar vein, pronouncing Brett Favre's last name as if the "r" comes before the "v." It doesn't, so stop it. Hotel

those befuddling networks of pedestrian subways that compel you to surface every few minutes like a gopher to see where you are.

It would be possible to sail from Scandinavia to Canada without once crossing more than 250 miles of open sea.

From Hurley, Virginia, to Beckley, West Virginia, is eighty-two miles, a little bit less as the crow flies, but you can't get there as the crow flies unless you are a crow.

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

Rivers are roads which move, [8] and which carry us whither we desire to go.

Without the journals I would be all at sea.

Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.

I wasn't steering anything, not even myself

The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess.

Thats what Traders do, we find roads and we follow them.

While it was a truism throughout most of known space that the shortest distance between two points was a straight line, it was equally true as far as the Corps was concerned that the shortest distance between two points had probably been mined.

Skipper, I have radar contact.

The captain said that crossing from Liverpool to Dublin is often more difficult than the entire passage from the West Indies to England.

I may not have known what my future held, or how in the world I was going to navigate through it, but I did know one thing: I needed to return to the place where I had once been happy, where I had been a hopeful, optimistic person before the ground gave way under my feet.

I once heard that Lord Martin can recall the exact details of every race he's ever been in and all the mistakes the other skippers made, and he doesn't require a chart or tide table when he's at the wheel. He keeps everything stored in his head like a scientific tactician.

Captain James Cook's ship, The Endeavour, hit a coral outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef in 1770. Cook and his crew camped in what is now called Cooktown for nearly two months while making repairs. Then they sailed south, where Cook claimed the east coast of Australia as British territory.

Cuando no se está demasiado seguro de nada, lo mejor es crearse deberes a manera de flotadores

just longitude and latitude. Thirty-seven degrees, fifty-six minutes north by one hundred seven degrees, forty-nine minutes west.

Maybe getting around in life was nothing but map-reading. A skill that required practice. A key to unlock where you wanted to go. A legend to show where you were.

You know, sometimes the most direct route isn't the right one. - Jacob

North-ish." A pause, and then: "Is that Terra for I'm lost-ish?

The person who has some awareness of the past knows how to fashion a rudder and which direction land is.