Your Favorite Drink and Toast: Sailing, Boating or Ocean Related

[SVTwilight]

Ours is the shop's motto as well as a toast, borrowed from Capt. Cook's Endeavour:

"Be excellent to each other"

[rjinhb]

Rum. Here's to pussy and gun powder. One brings you into the world, the other takes you out. And I love the smell of both. Pretty sure this ones getting deleted.

[GoneIsland]

Nothing fancy here Steady, just a good Cabernet or Pinot Noir. Took me till 40 to figure out that any hard liquor and my night ends with yes officer!
As for a toast we usually go with "fair winds" or "salute".

[hamburking]

On my boat there is usually only water to drink. If I am very lucky, there will be a jug of cold water in the icebox. Usually my drinking water is as warm as the day is hot, so a cold drink of water is a real treat. As for a toast, as a solo sailor I've never felt the need. I just chug my water, look into the sunset, and hope that my memories don't start leaking out of my eyes like they sometimes do.

[jhulmer]

Drink: Gray Goose and Tonic with a Lime and maybe a splash of Cranberry.

Toast: Here's to Friends! Friends may come and friends may go, and friends may peter-out you know, but we'll be friends through thick or thin peter-out or peter-in!

big hit, but only in mix company

[Steadman Uhlich]

Originally Posted by canyonbat

From my Uncle Bill, who sadly passed a couple of months ago. He never had much but he always had some kind of boat, be it a fishing boat, a run about or a pontoon. We would get settled in on his favorite lake in Oklahoma and he would raise his can of Coors and say "I wonder what the poor people are doing right now!" In his eyes, if you had a boat you had all you needed.

That's the kind of anecdote I like to see.

And it has inspired my next Toast:

"Here's to the good times that don't cost much, but are still priceless!"

[Fence Man]

The best drink I've ever had was some sort of a rum concoction called a "Clint Eastwood sails to Jamaica and pistol whips the natives". They tasted awful, but I couldn't have been in any better company.

To rattlesnakes and rubbers....Two things I'm never gonna screw with!

[skipper53]

"There are good ships and wood ships and ships that sail the sea,
But the best ships are friendships. May they always be!"

[Mirage35]

Remembered the one I was looking for, supposedly Irish:

"May you spend a half hour in heaven before the devil learns you're dead."

[Smokeys Kitchen]

A slight variation on what others have put up for a drink:

Dark & Stormy - Ginger beer (not Ginger ale) over ice in a tall glass; float 1-1/2 oz of dark rum; add squeeze/slice of lime. Finding good Ginger beer is the secret

...and from my late sister - speaking to me:

"Here's to you, and here's to me,
and if we should ever disagree,
here's to me!"

[John_Trusty]

I'm partial to ginger ale, a splash of mango juice, and a generous splash of white rum. All normally available on my boat.

As for a toast, I'll steal one from Venezuela, "Salud Amor y Dinero ... bueno tengo dos de los tres" "Health, Love, and Money ... well, I have two of the three" Obviously, most sailors never get the money.

[crabcake]

Dirty Gin Martini (among many others)

"Martini's are like a woman's breasts. One's not enough and three are too many."

Then there's my all time favorite:

"Here's to the whore that stood in the door with eyes as black as charcoal, who could skin a d%^k so f%^&*!g quick its make sparks out of your ass%$#*."

[Safari38LH]

I love to drink martinis.
Two at the very most.
Three I’m under the table.
Four I’m under the host!

[crabcake]

Originally Posted by Safari38LH

I love to drink martinis.
Two at the very most.
Three I’m under the table.
Four I’m under the host!

Perfect - its been sooooo long since I heard that! THANKS!

[StuM]

Originally Posted by canyonbat

From my Uncle Bill, who sadly passed a couple of months ago. He never had much but he always had some kind of boat, be it a fishing boat, a run about or a pontoon. We would get settled in on his favorite lake in Oklahoma and he would raise his can of Coors and say "I wonder what the poor people are doing right now!" In his eyes, if you had a boat you had all you needed.

We say it slightly differently: "I wonder what the poor folk are doing back home". And yep, it's said quite often sitting in the cockpit with a libation.