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“Who is staring at the sea is already sailing a little.” - Paul Carvel

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"Raise your sail one foot, and you get ten feet of wind." - Chinese Proverb

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“My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.” - Dennis Conner

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“It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage."  - George William Curtis

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“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.” - Seneca

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“Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.”  - Henry Thoreau

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“Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.” - Dennis Conner

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“Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.” - Dave Anderson

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“I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.” - Edward Heath

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"My experience with engines is that if you depend on them they fail you, but if it just doesn't matter, they serve you." - Frank Wightman

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"He was now convinced that the most valuable sail on board was the diesel." - Ray Kauffman

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"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm." - Syrus Pubilius

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"It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better." - Sir Francis Drake

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"The art of the sailor is to leave nothing to chance." - Annie Van De Wiele

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"If you can't repair it, maybe it shouldn't be on board." - Lin and Larry Pardey

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"Ships are the nearest thing to dreams that hands have ever made." - Robert N. Rose

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"There is nothing- absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." - Ratty said to Mole in Kenneth Grahame's beloved 1908 classic, The Wind in the Willows.

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"Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit." - Brooks Atkinson

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"Only two sailors, in my experience, never ran aground. One never left port and the other was an atrocious liar." - Don Bamford

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"Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him." - Charles G. Davis

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"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." - William A. Ward

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"Ships that pass in the night and speak each other in passing;  Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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"The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labours hardest, so noisy and
impatient when least effective." - Henry David Thoreau

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“There's no thrill in easy sailing when the skies are clear and blue, there's no joy in merely doing things which any one can do. But there is some satisfaction that is mighty sweet to take, when you reach a destination that you never thought you'd make”

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The day that you take delivery of a brand new boat - is the day you start maintenance!

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"Sailing alone soothes me because the sea is fair, not cruel. It judges only your ability. It does not care who or what you are. It does not ask your age, color, sex, address, sexual orientation, education or IQ, but only your competence. It requires only that you can sail. If you can, you survive. If you can't, better stay ashore. That's fair, more fair than most of us experience on land...and refreshing."

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A sure cure for seasickness? Stand under a tree!



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