All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by..
Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down..
Always sailing, sailing, sailing...never quite reaching..
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea..
It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel..
A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship..
My soul to-day Is far away Sailing the Vesuvian Bay..
The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamansh….
To my crew: Please be reasonable and do it my way. The Captain.
The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself..
Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our liv….
Marketing today is much more like sailing than driving. Your boat is the brand. If you point your boat in the right direction, follow the winds/curre….
You saw Britain back in the early days of sailing ships. They were the sea power, the controlled the seas and they had colonies all over the world an….
Quentin had an obsolete sailing ship that had been raised from the dead. He had psychotically effective swordsman and an enigmatic witch-queen. It wa….
Sometimes I feel like I'm sailing on a sunken dream.
There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing see….
Regardless of how much you enjoy your work, you must accept that everything won't come easily. No one has clear sailing on their voyage to success. Y….
The only way to get a good crew is to marry one..
Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know..
There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland..
The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph is astronomical. ….