Quotes About Navigation

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.

one hundred miles. Ryan: And having made that estimate, did you take into consideration a submarine on the surface at night proceeding on an opposite course from that steered

On the frontier," he had written in 1965, "man must often chart his course by stars he has never seen. Rarely does one recognize or discover a complex problem, formulate it, and lay out a procedure that will solve it—all in one great flash of insight.

Navy: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision. Civilian: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to South to avoid a collision. Navy: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert your course. Civilian: No, I say again, divert your course. Navy: This is the aircraft carrier Enterprise. We are a large warship of the US Navy. Divert your course now!! Civilian: This is a lighthouse. Your call." Canadian naval radio conversation38

If you look over in that direction, like two hundred yards, you will see some birds walking. Never drive the boat toward where the birds are walking. First rule of navigation.

Rather than being a 'ship of state', Italy often seems more like a flotilla of boats, each piloted according to a different chart, each competing for access to the most favourable winds, yet each afraid of being isolated from the other craft.

Normandy was the province with the largest number of channel ports and the deepest harbors.

pair of globes, one astronomical and the other terrestrial.

His troops forded the River Esk at low tide. When they returned, it was high tide

Bothwell, an expert seaman, escaped with three of his ships.

We don't enjoy giving directions in New Hampshire-we tend to think if you don't know where you're going, you don't belong where you are.

Further along" is fairly specific compared to other New Hampshire forms of directions; we don't enjoy giving directions in New Hampshire—we tend to think that if you don't know where you're going, you don't belong where you are.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

Turn left at Greenland....

And he distrusts novices who, without theory, will lack judgment, which must work "like a ship's compass," recording "the slightest variations" from courses set, "however rough the sea.

Rodearán las ciénagas, no las atravesarán con dificultad.

If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here.

I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.

The boat can't cross the river by paddling on one side. It should be paddled on the opposite side as well. That's called balance. If that is lost, the boat will flip.

All this while I have been a weaver without wool, a ship without the sea. Yet now look where I sail.

Am f?cut din tine steaua polar? a vie?ii mele, niciodat? nu-mi voi mai pierde drumul în aceast? c?l?torie pe mare.

Na última noite de lua cheia, tomamos a Brenantina, é esse o nome do nosso barco, e partimos da enseada de Brenan, no porto de Brenan, na cidade de Brenan I; cruzamos ao romper do dia o canal de Brenan; passamos junto ao terceiro rochedo de Brenan, para além do farol de Brenan, ao meio-dia avistamos o atol de Brenan, no meio do mar de Brenan. Em Brenan, tudo é Brenan!

I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.

the ability to appear on the horizon without warning, rather than having to tack around the coast.