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In a sailboat I become oblivious to everything else in the world.
You get a canoe later and I'll paddle you
One sometimes must sail with the wind and sometimes against it, but the important thing is to keep your sails full.
our floating barge.
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.
You have to be careful on the deck, because of the "hatches," which are holes placed around a sailboat at random to increase the insurance rates.
BOAT = Break Out Another Thousand
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.
The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.
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.
I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world.
Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all.
I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead.
For me, my craft is sailing on,Through mists to-day, clear seas anon.Whate'er the final harbor be'T is good to sail upon the sea!
Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a fisherman is forced to do to make a living; how could such an activity bring me - a woman no less - pleasure?
I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.
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.
Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.
Smooth sailing doth not a sailor make.
Perhaps this isn't your boat. Perhaps it doesn't sail where you want to go.
To reach a port we must set sail
I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.
The storm had come out of nowhere, tossing the ship like a toy on the waves. The sea had played along until it had tired of the game, and dragged their boat under in a tangle of rope and sail and screaming men.
You don't become a real sailor until you sail in a storm.
I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.
Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach of a private island in the Lesser Antilles
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.
Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, "What a navigator I am!" And then the wind blows you east.
No ship can out sail death
On the wind his sail unfurled and away from our shores his ship drifted.
I sail on the ocean of possibilities with the wind of hope and the current of desires moving me to the shore of uncertainty.
Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.
ship needs a big sea.
Ship," he said absently. "A boat is something you haul aboard a ship.
You haven't lived until you've sailed
I'm a big yachting fan.
To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.
My road leads me seawards To the white dipping sails.
I love boats. Anything that runs, anything mechanical. It's my God-given passion in life.
There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.
Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.
Some boats are rotten in the ports; some boats shine in the hard journeys!
From the sea, to the sea.
I am your boat! I am your crew
Your rudder and your mast -
Your friend, I am your limpet too
And your elastoplast.
- Tintinnabulum
A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a sense of vastness of the sea and at the same time of peace and contentment - the Zen sense oof the alone.
A boat can love the storm only if it is stronger than the storm!
Let go of the oars ... Everything you want is downstream.
She is the swelling sail, trim rigging and bust sunlit deck of our matrimonial yacht. I am the low hull, with the invisible ballast and keel.
canoe is the most graceful, the most sensitive, the most inexplicable contrivance of man. With its paddle you may dip up stars along quiet shores or steal into the very harbor of dreams. I
My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.
The true ship is the ship builder.
I am the ship in which you sail,
little dancing bones
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
skidded the elegant white speedboat skilfully through the
What's a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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.
If you have decided to sail to the sea with great courage and determination, even the storm on the horizon will step aside!
The wind is rising and we must make sail. Anchors aweigh! We must be off!
A sailor at war with the wind and the sea.
This man is my boatswain.
Nothing comes sailing by itself.
Don't sail through life, without an anchor, a captain and a compass
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.
We're going to need a bigger boat.
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
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.
I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
Only those who row the boat make waves
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
For a sailor to sail around the world, the thought is just, sometimes, too much. Thus, one simply goes from port to port in the same direction.
If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
If you want to know why you didn't make a boat
I'll tell you. You're just out there hammering the water. You're killing fish, not rowing.
And though I have sailed my boat hard aground,
O, it was so grand to be sailing!
There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter!
I am sailing on a ship bound for life.
a line in a song
When I'm all grown up, come what may,
I'll build a boat to carry me away
I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.
A boat, even a wrecked and wretched boat
still has all the possibilities of moving
As a child, I always wanted to live on a boat.
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.
We don't sail because the sea is there. We sail because there's a harbour. We don't start by heading for distant shores. We seek protection first.
Ships are but boards, sailors but men.
I grew up sailing in the North Sea.
I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell.
The boat that Ammu would use to cross the river. To love by night the man her children loved by day.
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner.
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.
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.
I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry.
I'm Lily Ivory, and this is my friend Sailor."
"You sail?"
"No. It's my name, not my avocation.
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.
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
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.
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.
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day.
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.