Sailors Sayings Needed

[Joli]

If you can't tie good knots, tie lots of them.

Or

Turner to Chance after the Mariner debacle.

"What the hell were you thinking Brit, even a turd is tapered on both ends."

[Chief Engineer]

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[David M]

Classic sailor saying....
"Could you bring up another beer Hon?"

[SabreKai]

3 am is a lousy time to be playing anchor, anchor, who'se got the anchor!


Dave Cross, after dragging anchor onto a reef one night



Sabre
87 days n a wake up

[Pblais]

Pray to God - but row toward shore.

[Rvrratt]

Stay thirsty, my friends!

[Mustang Sally]

I'd rather be swimin with bow legged women.

[Charlie]

Originally Posted by Ocean Girl

I'm a real book nut and my favorite book is "The Quotable Sailor" by Caswell
I cannot pick a favorite out of the book but here is a couple

I cannot not sail.
EB White

Up that rigging, you monkeys. Break out those sails and let them fill with the wind to carry us all to freedom.
Errol Flynn as Captain Blood

"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."
Bernard Moitessier

Never a ship sails out of the
bay, but carries my heart as a stowaway
--Roselle Mercier Montgomery

I need to get the book OG. Sounds great. I like the quotes that youpicked

[Charlie]

You've already picked a good one but one of my favorites is from lattitude 38 and not really appropriate for a Tugboat Skipper but here it is anyway. ---

Life's a Reach -- And then You Gybe.

[rgillar]

If you're swimmin in a creek
and an eel bites your cheek
that's a moray

[Maren]

Good thing you're not going to try to put all of these on a flask. You'd need a casket.

[Celestialsailor]

"Them ain't oars...them's me sisters"

[Lancerbye]

Keep your stick in the air and the water on the outside.

[Africaqueen]

Some time ytt doth appear
Magyque an’ fayre in the miste
But yff the pilot sayle forth
Ytt will soare vp flyinge o’r unknown seas
So ytt wylle turne blue
The colowre of distaunce

is a song from an Italian poet

YouTube - Francesco Guccini - L'Isola Non Trovata

L’isola non trovata
The island left unfounden
(Inspired by a poem of Guido Gozzano)

‘Twas the fayrest of alle
The island left unfounden
That the Kynge of Spayne
Was giuen by hys cousin
The Kynge of Portugal
With a bulla signed
And sealed by the Pontyffe
In Gothic Latyn writynge

The Kynge of Spayn sailed awaye
To seeke for that enchantyd island
But, alas! ‘twas not to be founden
And no one coude euer fynde it
Ytt disappear’d fro’ th’forecastlle
As fast as thowghte
As iff ytt were a fleetyng dream
Ytt disappear’d ne’er to be found any more.

The ancyent maps of the pyrates
Are poynted with mysterious signes
The sea men tell it yn a low voyce
For fear or for supersticyoune
No one knoweth whether ytt is
Or ytt’s a dreame
Yff you can smelle ytt in the wynde
Ytt is lyke smoke that you neuer catch...

Some time ytt doth appear
Magyque an’ fayre in the miste
But yff the pilot sayle forth
Ytt will soare vp flyinge o’r unknown seas
So ytt wylle turne blue
The colowre of distaunce
The Kynge of Spayn sailed awaye.

[Rangiroo]

"Wherever it is I wish to Go
Tis from there the Wind shall Blow"