Favorite cruising related sayings

[Kettlewell]

This has probably been done before, but here are a few cruising sayings I have repeated many times that I find to be true and useful to keep in mind:

• Red sky in morning sailors take warning, red sky at night, sailors' delight
• Go With the Flow
• You eat what the cook dishes up: Bahamian saying that you have to deal with whatever the weather gives you
• Wuwei: Chinese for the practice of taking no action that is not in accord with the natural course of the universe
• Take in the first reef when you first wonder if you should
• Never enter an unfamiliar harbor at night
• When in doubt, let out more scope
• Better to be uncomfortable in harbor than to be uncomfortably seeking harbor