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I am the captain of my pain.
To my crew: Please be reasonable and do it my way.
The Captain
I have to find a boat. Somehow.
I must capture the flag,' he breathed. 'That's what a pirate captain is supposed to do. Go to the roof, so I can capture the flag and gloat.'
'Capture the flag and goat?'
'Gloat.'
Isabella stood hands on hips. 'It's pronounced goooaaat, idiot.
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.
A boat can't have two captains.
Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.
Dad was a passionate sailor, and he taught me.
You went to the catamaran with him?" Marcus couldn't believe what he was hearing. "You've been boating together?"
"Yes, boating
not boinking
boating!" Rosie screeched.
I'm a fish swimming by Ray. Catch me if you want me.
Grampie's boat was a little double-ender, a model not built nowadays. She was narrow, so that she pitched and rolled something wicked in almost any sea. He could handle her, but he said she was probably the boat Christ got out of and walked away from on the water.
The sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water
She's a sailboat and I'm an anchor, pulling us both down.
Life is a sail boat ride. Wind, the destiny. But dammit, you are the sailor!
A father has to do everything in his power to keep a tight ship, even though he knows the crew would like to send him away in a dinghy.
The true ship is the ship builder.
Captain, I said, letting the surprise I felt filter into my voice. It was weird how every time I said the word captain, I wanted to tack on a Jack Sparrow at the end.
This is Leo. I'm the ... What's my title? Am I like, admiral, or captain, or ... "
"Repair boy."
"Very funny, Piper.
A small craft in the ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. The skipper's brain is the vessel's brain and he must give up his soul to her, regardless of his own feelings or inclinations.
Now comes good sailing.
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.
you are the only boat in this regatta.
All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.
I'm great at boats!
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.
An excellent angler, and now with God.
The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.
Always sailing, sailing, sailing ... never quite reaching.
TREAT BRADEN didn't usually charter planes. It wasn't his style to flash his wealth, but tonight he needed to be anywhere but his Nassau,
I don't know. I never heard anything about her again after I landed her man," she said, peering back at me. "She was drowned in my wake. You better hope you can swim if you go up against me."
This bitch was lucky I was letting her leave in one piece. "Like a damn fish.
You look good as a Pirate." Erin
"Ahoy, matey," he said, laying her back against the grass. "Me cap'n's ship needs a port." V' Aidan
"Me cap'n's port needs a ship." Erin
I'm on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet.
Oh my dear now did you hear of clumsy Captain Cotton? He sailed a knot in Haley's Loch before hit the bottom!
In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner.
There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.
The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.
A captain always knows where his ship is. It's like a psychic bond."
"If only we had a captain here.
No Finn, ya ding-dong!
-Princess Bubblegum
Gazzy: Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R.
"Would you, do you, my dear?" rejoined the Captain ... "I don't know. It's difficult navigation. She's very hard to carry on with, my dear. You never can tell how she'll head, you see. She's full one minute, and round upon you next."
I am the captain of my own crunch.
Charter boats are like books with no covers.
I'm Lily Ivory, and this is my friend Sailor."
"You sail?"
"No. It's my name, not my avocation.
I'm a sailor, Lettie, I go where the wind takes me. And it led me to you, didn't it? I was born ten thousand miles away, but the wind brought me to Barter, and now we're friends. We're on this boat for a reason.
A sailor at war with the wind and the sea.
There was a trout.
It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.
What's a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
You want to give the biggest klutz who ever walked the earth a sailboat? I might run over someone."
"Just make sure they deserve it," he answered without missing a beat.
Park hill staten island seal, rock the reel to reel we high hills deep
Hal in full control of the ship. The
We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat.
Love's Course
A boatman crossing Yura Strait
Has lost his rudder, and the boat
Is drifting with uncertain fate,
Like love's course, indeterminate.
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Raft of the Medusa.
Smooth sailing doth not a sailor make.
You're gonna need a bigger boat.
I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.
Like I'd let you captain me.
Captain," said I,
Who cares who's captain after the wings have fallen off.
The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.
A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.
Do you know what the Sharkgard call humans on a ship?>
I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you. Capt. Wolf Larsen
His small fragile ship had barely escaped a disaster; now it enters a region of new storms and uncharted depths through which even the best led ... cannot find a guide. He must find his own way and be his own saviour.
The boat was coming in. Suddenly the boat stopped and turned around and went out to sea again. "Well, well," thought Benny. "Whoever he is, he
bucket on the deck behind him, bait sloshing. He
I am not the captain of my ship. My ship is out there, but I don't have my course. You never know in this business.
A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a care - For Captain was the Butterfly For Helmsman was the Bee And an entire universe For the delighted crew.
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.
I would have always been the captain. But now you're in charge.
You are the captain of your ship that never comes in
He slumped down in the command seat and shut off the irritating alarm. He sighed again. It seemed to be a wonderful day for Mykl d'Angelo, captain and owner of the 'tramp' freighter Pegasus. As wonderful days went on his personal scale, this one was rated one of the best.
MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that you could put in a dive, loose a cylinder and stall out!
I'm the lonely voyager standing on deck, and she's the sea.
Boat is nothing without water and man without his dreams!
All that yohoho stuff's for landlubbers, or it would be if we ever used words like landlubber. Do you know the difference between port and starboard? I don't. I've never even drunk starboard.
Mark held up his plastic bag. Inside it, a small orange fish swam around in a circle. "This is the best patrol we've ever done," he said. "I have never been awarded a fish before.
Rock star do not jump!" The launch was cutting sharply, its skipper calling out a phrase that bore no relationship to the English language as Amy knew it. "Rock star in a hurry!" Nellie replied, one foot on the boat's gunwale.
The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist!
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.
Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!
I am the Captain of the Pinafore ; And a right good captain too! ... And I'm never, never sick at sea! What, never? No, never! What never? Hardly ever! He's hardly ever sick at sea! Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the hardy Captain of the Pinafore!
Never trust the captain who has never taken any education from the School of Storms!
You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!
Hale!' Kat cried, but the boy only stared at her. 'Fine,' she conceded. 'I love your boat.'
'Ship.'
'Ship ... Your ship is beautiful.
We're going to need a bigger boat.
He may be a malevolent sorcerer, but Tiny Cooper is his own goddamned man, and if he wants to be a gigantic skipper, then that's his right as a huge American.
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 don't get 'shark' - but who cares!
Watch out! Someone taught me that I should watch the people in my boat; some may be rolling the boat while others may be drilling holes under it! So, am determined to watch my circle!
Captain Phillips is a knockout.
This was Jonan's boat. She had helped Nan Seller dose his entire crew against the annual diarrhea outbreak known as the winter runs
The captain is supposed to go down with the ship" . "unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat
I'm a big yachting fan.
Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime
Put on his pistols and went riding out
But had got wellnigh nowhere at that time
Till he fell in with ladies in a rout.
In calm water every ship has a good captain.
The ocean, like life, always has movement. A sailboat with all its parts together, in its wholeness, can lead it's own way, cutting through challenging waves with strength, ease, purpose and determination, no matter the pull and push of the waves.
Yo ho, yo ho, the pirate life, The flag o' skull and bones, A merry hour, a hempen rope, And hey for Davy Jones.' At