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When I'm all grown up, come what may,
I'll build a boat to carry me away
The gondola of London [a hansom].
On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge.
Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.
Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love
It's called a sea anchor,' [Evanlyn] explained. 'It'll stop us drifting too far.'
Alyss was impressed. 'And you said you were pig-ignorant when it came to boats.'
'I don't remember saying that,' Evanlyn replied with a frown.
Alyss shrugged. 'Oh? Well, it must have been me.
This boat that we just built is just fine -
And don't try to tell us it's not
The sides and the back are divine -
It's the bottom I guess we forgot
Jet ski and wild noises.
In trouble waters I had to learn how to float
I forced my way to the brink, stepped into the boat, pushed it, with the help of the tree-branches, out into the stream, lay down in the bottom, and let my boat and me float whither the stream would carry us.
If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
As a child, I always wanted to live on a boat.
When the river takes me I don't try to swim or stay afloat. I open my eyes and my mouth and let the water fill me up. I feel my lungs spasm but there's no pain, and I stop being afraid. The current carries me along. I'm flotsam, and I understand that flotsam is all I've ever been.
Let us Build the Boat first to cross the River.
Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.
Falling Waters, Frank Lloyd Wright's
Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds.
Learning voyage, the greatest adventure.
The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten.
When the river rises, sometimes the only thing to do is float.
We're going to need a bigger boat.
I gave up trying to find out. Any knowledge I might gain was useless. I had no means of controlling where I was going - no rudder, no sails, no motor, some oars, but insufficient brawn.
There was something refreshingly and wildly musical to my ears in the very name of the white man's canoe, reminding me of Charlevoix and Canadian Voyageurs. The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe and the boat, a fur-trader's boat.
One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbi<>ng>ngng> alo<>ng>ngng> with the tide, suspended by my inflatable tube and water wi<>ng>ngng>s.
The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under.
Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.
Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring ... 'How to Build a Boat.'
Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!
Seagulls ... slim yachts of the element.
A Boat O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. We took him to the carnival and he started crying when he saw the Ferris wheel. Electric green and red tears flowed down his furry cheeks. He looked like a boat out on the dark water.
Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter.
You can't walk on water until you get yourself out the boat.
When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.
aboard ship, and then hard tack, salt-horse,
shallows, grabbed the bow rope, and held on for dear life. "Give me
Drowning, she clung fiercely to that small, splintered piece of mast bobbing in the ocean we call justice. There is no justice, of course, or very little of it, and counting on it as a life raft is a big mistake.
As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
I gazed up at the sky. I was in a tiny boat, on a vast ocean. No wind, no waves, just me floating there. Adrift on the open sea..
..A tiny boat cut loose from the fiction of the ship.
Choose to chance the rapids; dare to dance the tide
Siva, O Siva, carry my boat to the other shore!
boathouse. "Good night, Harley." "Don't give
Life is a voyage across troubled waters where our days are often spent clinging to the top of the highest mast, scouting for a comforting glimpse of shore.
It is said that some Western steamers can run on a heavy dew, whence we can imagine what a canoe may do.
I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
When its steamboat time
you steamboat
Jump or stay in the boat.
The Dutchman sails as its captain commands!
To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.
I took up windsurfing to explore my own courage.
Windsurfing, the sound of the word contains all the mystery of a solitary buoy in the fog, echoing across the water at the end of the day.
Islands in the streams, that is what we are.
A boat, even a wrecked and wretched boat
still has all the possibilities of moving
Of course you have a boat. You're a Viking.
Away down the river,
A hundred miles or more,
Other little children
Shall bring my boats ashore.
You are so in over your head that even a life raft can't keep you afloat.
We go by the lighthouse; paddle out. After we got out, we paddled way down to get the biggest peak.
Don't forget that the boat and the water are in love with each other; you should never let them on their own; lo and behold, they have made an agreement with the wind and gone off on their honeymoon!
I would describe the size and style of our vessel, but I don't know anything about sailing, so I'm trusting you to picture a boat.
What river can flood over the mountains of your love?
It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.
I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.
No one rides for free, and in the end, even the most seaworthy ship goes down, blub-blub-blub. The only way to balance that off, in Hodges's opinion, is to make the most of every day afloat.
If you come to a river and find a boat at the edge, you will use that boat and it will serve you well, but once across the river, do you put the boat on your shoulders and carry it with you on the rest of your journey?
If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river.
Adventure stank. She boasted sixty oars, a single sail, and a long lean hull that promised speed. Small, but she might serve, Quentyn thought when he saw her, but that was before he went aboard and got a good whiff of her.
I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead.
If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by one half its structure to some swift and shapely fish, and by the other to some strong-winged and graceful bird.
Park hill staten island seal, rock the reel to reel we high hills deep
Floating to shore ... riding a low moon ... on a slow cloud.
I'm great at boats!
O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold-
One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!
A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.
Julian, I need you. Not in ways you can see. But in ways that I feel. If I'm your life raft, we're in trouble - because you're mine.
The wind is rising and we must make sail. Anchors aweigh! We must be off!
I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry.
men who waded into waters claiming they could swim should not need a raft.
Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life.
Carrying the need to bow down and seek solace at the altar of nature, he had launched the canoe in the darkness. Tonight, his altar was the Alapaha River.
A cluster of yachts was anchored at the far side, and a smaller boat with a National Park Service logo on the side was tied at the dock. We slowed, turned, and slid in next to it. I
A boat would seem to be an object whose one purpose is to travel, but its real purpose is not to travel but to reach harbour. We found ourselves on the high seas, with no idea of which port we should be aiming for.
Perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters ... glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in.
And if that is the Foremast, what do you think that sail might be called, Mr. Wheeler?"
"The Foresail?"
"Very good, Mr. Wheeler, and the next one up would be called ... "
... "The Next Sail, Sir?"
"Alas, no, Mr. Wheeler.
We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.
A boat without captain cannot remain long on the surface!
ship needs a big sea.
I'm one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth.
It's so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you. Just drifting over beautiful rivers in a balloon is perfect.
Long have you timidly waded
Holding a plank by the shore,
Now I will you to be a bold swimmer,
To jump off in the midst of the sea,
Rise again, nod to me, shout,
And laughingly dash with your hair.
Richard Parker found himself on a dinghy with three other men, floating over a thousand kilometres from the nearest land.
I can jump ship and swim
that the ocean will hold me,
that there's got to be more
than this boat I'm in.
A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could have only one book, what would it be? I always say, How to Build a Boat.
It was a boat. Of course, the common word "boat" didn't do the thing justice. Wayne stared at the massive construction, searching for a better description. One that would capture the majesty, the incredible scale, of the thing he was seeing. "That's a damn big boat," he finally whispered.
I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.
on a boat, the better.
If there is no room in the river,
swim to the ocean.
In the midst of the storm, your life boat appears. A psalm, a hymn, a word ... calming the fiercest winds of the soul.
A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!
Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.