Here is a collection of quotes, some truly nautical, others just expressing the spirit of yachting and the thoughts and feelings that cross your mind as you sit at the wheel or tiller. Please send us suggestions for additions to this list. I hope you enjoy the ones we have selected. If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Psalm 107 Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind. Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. Nought cared this body for wind or weather When youth and I lived in 't together. But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. When I have crossed the bar.