sailing quotes

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

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.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.