You have to be careful on the deck, because of the "hatches," which are holes placed around a sailboat at random to increase the insurance rates.
Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down.
BOAT = Break Out Another Thousand
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
. . . arranging the journey was so difficult. Getting home again was much easier.
I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.
You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.
My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.
I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.
Everyone, you know, during crises times, is much more focused on, okay, how do we get the boat completely seaworthy, sailing along well, and everything going well? And so as long as you're communicating how the general strategy of the company and how the work they can do to add to that and to make that more successful and the thing that they can contribute to that, that is generally very motivating for employees in crisis times.
E. B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.
I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.
Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems.
This is the most elaborate and luxurious method of convincing others that you can cook. Take everybody out on your yacht until they're green in the face. Then you can rave for weeks about your sauce marinara and no one will gainsay you.
Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.
Sailing has given me some of the most pleasant and exciting moments of my life. It also has taught me something of the courage, resourcefulness, and strength of men who sail the seas in ships.
Sailing really forces you to be present and in the moment. You kind of forget about the bullshit of life. Your thoughts go away because you're focused on making sure everything's working. I like being in that place.
Born in the Flint, Michigan, big boat sailing on the Great Lakes and skiing in the winter was how most of my youth was spent.
Times of economic crises can change what the competitive landscape looks like, because when, for example, you have boom times, capital is easy to come by, growth is easy, sometimes what you focus on is, you know, how to accelerate in the boom. During economic crises, the question is, the companies that come out of, you know, that are sailing through that with the best liquidity, both assets on the balance sheet, making money, ability to grow their businesses, get a disproportionate competitive advantage.