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Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.
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I grew up in a sailing family. My dad lived for sailing, and when we moved to Canada when I was a child, he really wanted us to learn.
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Life changes so quickly and like a sailboat you either wait for whatever cross wind comes your way to move you on your journey or you can actually decide where you want to go and use the ship's engine to stay on course.
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Even if it is made up of gold, the sailing boat can go nowhere without the humble wind!
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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.
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You haven't lived until you've sailed
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But that's how it is on a sailing ship, and in this respect its journey parallels that of life: simply knowing where you want to go isn't enough, because life is a windblown voyage, consisting mainly of the detours imposed by alternating calm and storm.
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It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.
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Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.
In beauty, but do not condemn,
The seamen who embark and fail,
But only those who will not sail.
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Don't sail through life, without an anchor, a captain and a compass
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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Everybody Sails alone, but we can travel side by side
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Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.
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'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.
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The Dutchman sails as its captain commands!
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I love sailing. I like it more when I am winning.
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No ship can out sail death
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Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, "What a navigator I am!" And then the wind blows you east.
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O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold-
One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Turn over the rudder in God's name, and sail with the wind heaven sends us.
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Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I was ready.
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A wide-angle view of sails sparkling white against a cobalt sky as light dances, silver on the water. Like art, it soothes the edge, allowing you to see something simple from a different perspective.
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I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry.
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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.
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[Sailing term]
"Going through life on broad reach"
[could not be more relaxed]...
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I grew up sailing in the North Sea.
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Behold the threaden sails,
Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
Breasting the lofty surge
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Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on.
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For my part, whether sailing in cruiser or dinghy, I shall remain myself. My sails are not puffed out with the north wind in my favour, nor am I beating into the southern gales of affliction.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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If you can't stop the waves, go sailing.
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The best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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See the Sea, the cross it!
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The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by.
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Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.
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I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass.
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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.
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He enters the port with a full sail.
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I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander' novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship.
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ship needs a big sea.
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She had always been good at dreaming, but what she had never done before was believe a dream could actually come true. She believed now. The wonder of setting sail created possibilities she had never considered before.
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Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding,Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West,That fearest nor sea rising, nor sky clouding,Whither away, fair rover, and what thy quest?
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Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
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A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose.
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If you're a sailor, best not know how to swim. Swimming only prolongs the inevitable - if the sea wants you and your time has come.
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Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.
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I'm on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet.
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To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.
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O skies, be calm! O winds, blow free - Blow all my ships safe home to me! But if thou sendest some a-wrack, To never more come sailing back, Send any - all that skim the sea, But bring my love-ship home to me.
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Set your wings upon the sea wind
Set your eyes upon the stream
Feel the billow of the updraft
And believe in your dream
Know the mercy of these waters
Know the safety of the sky
Hear the voices in the distance
And believe - they will not lie.
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Nothing comes sailing by itself.
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Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.
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I am sailing on a ship bound for life.
a line in a song
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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship
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Ships are my arrows, the sea my bow, the world my target.
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He that hath the steerage of my course,
Direct my sail.
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Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.
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Life is a sail boat ride. Wind, the destiny. But dammit, you are the sailor!
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I was never part of the sailing circle, but I enjoy when I'm invited to sail.
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When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.
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Don't try to sail your ship now by how the wind is going to be in three days.
You have to sail with the winds are they are now.
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Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.
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So we beat on, boats against the current.
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The world is a globe - the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.
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Well, then
our course is chosen
spread the sail
Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well
Look to the helm, good master
many a shoal
Marks this stern coast, and rocks, where sits the Siren
Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.
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Life on the blue part of the globe for eight years had suited me - the wild open spaces, the bliss of buoyancy, the volatile, soul-powered wind. Sailing had struck a nerve both primal and poetic. On and near the ocean life made sense, It made every sense work.
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When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.
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Set your sails now but the ocean is very rough and treacherous ... if you keep going you will get there.
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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One ship goes East another West, By the self-same winds that blow; 'Tis the set of the sail and not the gale Which determines the way they go.
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If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck
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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!
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No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy.
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I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear,
or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.
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I am not afraid of storms, for I am leaning how to sail my ship.
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Let go of the oars ... Everything you want is downstream.
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May the seas bend to your journey.
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They paddled easily, in unison, the paddles turning in their hands so that they did not leave the water on the forward stroke. The small waves slapped softly against the bows. Otherwise they made no noise. It was dark. Nobody saw them go. They just left the land and went off across the sea.
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The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.
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She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at their length the streamers play, And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze.
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But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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A headland, a ship, a sail upon the billows. Farewell. A lovely girl, her veil awave upon the wind upon the headland, wind around her.
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away from the ocean, heading toward the
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He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying up, on every side. There was another vessel before them, toiling and labouring in the howling storm: her canvas fluttering in ribbons from the mast.
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The breeze of God's grace is blowing continually. You have to set your sail to catch that breeze.
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Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds
Along the pebbled shore of memory!
Many old rotten-timber'd boats there be
Upon thy vaporous bosom, magnified
To goodly vessels; many a sail of pride,
And golden keel'd, is left unlaunch'd and dry.
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It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea.
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So with stun-sail piled on stun-sail, we sailed along,
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Perhaps one day, you'll become a man and sail the oceans too. Perhaps you'll find buried treasure and discover new lands of your own. The world lays waiting for your adventures too and we can only dream of what they may be.
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She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.
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In the middle distance, sails were gliding like butterflies, and farther away, ships dotted the mouth of the bay between Awa and Sagami as if brushed in ink in a single flowing stroke.
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Sailors are like my overies due North
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If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an hour, the same speed at which a bond lawyer runs around the Cental Park Reservoir.
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The biggest danger in sailing is not the open ocean. It's hitting things. So if I have a thousand miles between me and land, a storm doesn't really upset me. If the boat's set up right, you get beat up a little bit, but the boat's going to handle it fine.
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The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail.
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All you know is
you must change sail
to catch it.
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I have to find a boat. Somehow.
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Fortunately the boat we rented had a motor in it You will definitely want this feature on your sailboat too, because if you put up the sails, the boat tips way over, and you could spill your beer.
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Your this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchor"
"A ship without an anchor can never be at rest