Robert Southwell Quotes

Sailing is in the same vein as horse riding. There's a beauty to it; it's an elegant sport. You have to employ your intelligence. It's technical, but you also have to take into account the natural elements - the wind, the water, the weather.

Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.

I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.

I want to conquer the unknown. I really, really want to live on the water and captain my own boat. I have dreamed of going around the world on a boat.

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.

Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.

My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped.

They have a fine breeze and are now we hope, well on their way.

Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.

I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat. And I built a boat. I had a boat built for me, I mean, and my second day out to sea I realized that (a) I'm not a sailor, and (b) I have no knowledge of basic navigation.

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

I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world.

You gotta strike while the iron's hot.

The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

I am a sailor.

I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while the iron is hot.

I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster's ponderous dictionary in the library. Now I am actually at sea - as a passenger, of course, but at sea nevertheless - and bound for Ecuador.

I'm not an experienced sailor.

When my brother and I were 11, our father designed a 17-foot boat for sailing around the world. He'd never ventured more than a few miles from the U.S. He'd never sailed - or designed a boat before.

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.

To sail successfully, you need to observe with great care. You need to identify what the wind and the water are telling you and then find a way to execute, to reach whatever goal you've set, be that simply making it home or winning a race.