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For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.
There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.
I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.
I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
On the Trans-Atlantic Single-handed Race Mr Owen Smithers has been disqualified for using both hands.
I wouldn't say I'm that social... I'm either sailing my boat by myself or living in some small place.
Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.
Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.
My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.
Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.
I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls.
Sailing is a completely new sport for me and I wasn't sure what to expect but I've definitely got the bug.
Sports provides that tool kit to be successful in life. Because it's not always going to be smooth sailing.
I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.
The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head
O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won
When I'm not acting, I'm usually sailing or camping or exploring or travelling or spending time in New Zealand.
My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.
It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.
I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead.
People spend money on sports, and I just don't do golf, I hate it. But I love sailing and the technology aspect.
If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.
In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic.
People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!
To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out."
There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.
The fear among athletes and organizers is that sailing is becoming more associated with silver hair than silver trophies.
Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.
I must go down to the sea again For the call of the running tide It's a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.
I really enjoy sailing on Lake Geneva because I can just look at the shore and see my wife having a barbecue with the kids.
The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.
I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell.
Born in the Flint, Michigan, big boat sailing on the Great Lakes and skiing in the winter was how most of my youth was spent.
Sailing is such a variable sport. There could be no wind, or there could be 25 knots. You never know what you're going to get.
We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.
A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.
I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead of just going with the wind.
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!
When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.
What I love about acting is that you are exposed to so many different things. Horse-riding, sailing, travelling to amazing places.
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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.
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!