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Roselle Mercier Montgomery
“Never a ship sails out of a bay, but carries my heart as a stowaway.” – Roselle Mercier Montgomery
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Stephen Wright
“A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could only have one book, what would it be? I always say ‘How to Build a Boat’.” – Stephen Wright
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George William Curtis
“It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.” – George William Curtis
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Van Wyck Brooks
“No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he … Continue reading
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Dennis Conner
“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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Jimmy Buffett
“The ocean has always been a salve to my soul…the best thing for a cut or abrasion was to go swimming in salt water. Later down the road of life, I made the discovery that salt water was also good … Continue reading
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Edmund Gibbon
The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator.” – Edmund Gibbon
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Nicholas Monsarrat
“Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.” – Nicholas Monsarrat
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Hilaire Belloc
“For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.” – Hilaire Belloc
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John Masefield
“Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.” – John Masefield
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Annie Van De Wiele
“The art of the sailor is to leave nothing to chance.” – Annie Van De Wiele
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Sir Francis Chichester
“To the question, “When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?” the obvious answer seemed to be, “When the gin gave out.” – Sir Francis Chichester
