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About Sailing Quotes

Sailing Quotes is a noncommercial journal about sailing stories, cruising life, seamanship, craft, tradition, technology, and the language sailors inherit.

The quotation archive is built slowly and on purpose. Each quotation is checked word for word against a primary source or a public-domain copy of the original work, and each record names the speaker, the source, the edition used, and the basis for publishing it.

The archive grew out of a circumnavigation aboard a 41-foot ketch between March 2005 and April 2013. The site is Powered by Retail Rudder.

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