Sailing-related Sayings (well, one at least)

[soup1438]

It is far better to bend the wind than to break it.

[Nigel Barron]

We WILL put up that spinnaker, and God can bring it down.

[sbj]

"If you've never run aground, You've never been anywhere"

[Chad and Sandy]

"Green to green, red to red, all is fine, go ahead...
When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout"

[Chris Miller]

when in doubt, let it out...
Chris

[Sean Engle]

when in doubt, let it out...
Chris

Or 'When in doubt, turn out"

Of course, there's always Capt. Ron's "If something's gonna happen, it's gonna happen out there!".

:egrin:

//sse

[Art Mullinax]

And, If we get lost, we'll just pull in somewhere and ask for directions...
Art M.

[Seth]

1). "Tiller towards trouble" (when teaching someone to steer with a tiller)

2). For the guy with "only one oar in the water", you can say: " fractional-his headstay doesn't go all the way to the top"

Happy holidays,
S

[Jeff Asbury]

Old sailors never die they just get a little dinghy

Request permission to lay along side

Sailing is hours of pleasure interrupted by moments of sheer panic

[Loren Beach]

Powerboaters are always in a hurry because they
want to be somewhere else. Sailors aren't in a hurry because they are
exactly where they want to be.
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-- Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt --
"Those who HURRY across the sea change their sky, not their attitude"
--a quote from Horace
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The golden triangle of boat ownership is: Time, Money, and Skill. Pick any two sides. :)
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from our own "Capt Dan"
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"Du kannst dem Leben nicht mehr Tage geben, aber den Tag mehr Leben."
-- source unknown, attribution requested (Goethe?)
(You can't give your life more days, but you can give your days more life.)
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Loren
:jollyroge

[Mindscape]

"There is nothing- absolutely nothing-
half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats."

[Blue Chip]

Sailing is the best 10 hobbies I' ever got involved in.

Mark May
Blue Chip

[Chris Miller]

[QUOTE=Blue Chip]Sailing is the best 10 hobbies I' ever got involved in.

That's a riot!

[Sean Engle]

Sailing is the best 10 hobbies I' ever got involved in.

Mark May
Blue Chip


Yeah, I like that one - how true! :egrin:

//sse

[Art Mullinax]

A ship is safe in the harbor, but that is not what ships were made for.

[Dan Hayes]

I was trying to find the famous quote by Sir Peter Blake, which, paraphrased, goes like this: "Sailing is like standing in an ice cold shower, while shoving hundred dollar bills down the drain..." on Google, when I came across this. I really liked it, and hope you do, too.

It was apparently read at Sir Peter Blake's funeral. It's the last song of Bilbo Baggins, as he leaves Middle Earth, the the third book of Lord of the Rings. It would be a fitting tribute to any sailor, and especially one as great as Peter Blake:

Bilbo's Last Song

Day is ended, dim my eyes,
but journey long before me lies.
Farewell, friends! I hear the call.
The ship's beside the stony wall.
Foam is white and waves are grey;
beyond the sunset leads my way.
Foam is salt, the wind is free;
I hear the rising of the Sea.

Farewell, friends! The sails are set,
the wind is east, the moorings fret.
Shadows long before me lie,
beneath the ever-bending sky,
but islands lie behind the Sun
that I shall raise ere all is done;
lands there are to west of West,
where night is quiet and sleep is rest.

Guided by the Lonely Star,
beyond the utmost harbour-bar,
I'll find the heavens fair and free,
and beaches of the Starlit Sea.
Ship, my ship! I seek the West,
and fields and mountains ever blest.
Farewell to Middle-earth at last.
I see the Star above my mast!

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

[Graham Cole]

1) The shiny side should always be up
2) The pointy end is the front
3) No matter how pear shaped things are getting, you must always look cool...

[NateHanson]

Keep the stick up, the keel down, and the water out.

[Bob in Va]

"Don't pee, puke, or spit to windward."

[Emerald]

Oh come on, it's so obvious,

"row, row, row your...."


:D


-David
Independence 31
Emerald

[Seth]

Bob, doesn't it go like this:

"When you puke or when you pee, kindly do it to the lee"?

Don't forget to tip your waitress-I'll be here all week!:rolleyes:

[Loren Beach]

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

(One of his several excellent books, "Wind, Sand, and Stars" is worth rereading every few years... IMHO)

[Seth]

When the Britton Chance designed 12 meter "Mariner" (Turner's "breakthrough" steed for his first A-Cup challenge-the boat had a very unusual, squared-off stern section) was unveiled at the launching, Turner was at the podium, with press all around, and he turned to Brit and said "Hell, Brit-even turds are pointed at both ends"...
Classic!:egrin::rolleyes:

[CaptDan]

When the Britton Chance designed 12 meter "Mariner" (Turner's "breakthrough" steed for his first A-Cup challenge-the boat had a very unusual, squared-off stern section) was unveiled at the launching, Turner was at the podium, with press all around, and he turned to Brit and said "Hell, Brit-even turds are pointed at both ends"... -
Classic!:egrin::rolleyes:

Never heard that one before, but it's going in the Palm Pilot 'funny quotes' file.:egrin:

When pestered repeatedly about how big a sailboat a person needs to live aboard, a cantankerous yacht broker whose name escapes me quipped:

"Some folks aren't happy with anything less than 80 feet; others are content with a coffin and a stick." :nerd:

Capt Dan G>E35II "Kunu"

[Gary G]

Sailors are always looking up; while landsmen are always looking down.

[Jeff Asbury]

Reminds me of Soldiers being referred to as "Ground Pounder's" and Sailors as "Anchor Clanker's"