Sailing Quotes

“Better drowned than duffers. If not duffers won't drown.”

“Boats are a good deal more than wood and canvas, or steel and wire. They are living things, with characters and personalities of their own.”

“A duffer is a person who is all thumbs.”

“I found that a flogging on board of a man-of-war is no momentary thing.”

“Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.”

“There is a witchery in the sea, its songs and stories, and in the mere sight of a ship, and the sailor's dress.”

“I went to sea from the most tender age and have continued in a sea life to this day... Wherever ship has gone, I have gone.”

“There is no class of men who are so entirely abandoned to spiritual neglect as seamen.”

“I learned to sail before I could walk. My father taught me.”

“Sailing is a great way to get away from everything. It's just you and the elements.”

“A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast, And fills the white and rustling sail, And bends the gallant mast.”

“To be a sailor is to be a wanderer.”

“But to proceed with our own affairs: It was the 18th day of May, about 10 a clock in the morning, when we weighed anchor from the Bay of Campeachy.”

“A sailor's life is at best but a mixture of a little good with much evil, and a little pleasure with much pain.”

“My ship was also my friend; I loved her.”

“My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in each race, just to be consistent.”

“It's a game of chess on water.”

“I just had this idea that if you could get the weight lower you could get away with less of it and you could get a smaller boat and a more efficient one.”

“The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail itself.”

“The America's Cup is a campaign, not a regatta.”