Favorite cruising related sayings

[Montanan]

If you can’t repair it, maybe it shouldn’t be on board.
-Lin and Larry Pardey

[Montanan]

Interesting read:

https://owlcation.com/humanities/50-Nautical-Terms-And-Sailing-Phrases-That-Have-Enriched-Our-Language

[Montanan]

We can't control the winds, but we can adjust the sails.

[Montanan]

You spend time on land, you live life on the water.


Sundowners expression:

Anchors down; bottoms up!

[thinwater]

Originally Posted by Yojimbo

Thank you Anne,

Still doesn't really answer the question for me nor do I think it would explain it to Jean Socrates, Cole Bauer or a few other sailors.

Has always and still does perplex me to rule out half the fun.

So silly.


More like "Only mad dogs and English men go out in the noon sun." Obviously people do, even in the hottest places. But why bash to windward if you don't have to?


It's just a saying.

[thinwater]

How about "He who would go to sea for pleasure would go to hell to pass the time."


We've all thought it a some point.

[FTS]

Originally Posted by s/v Jedi

Sell the RV, let’s try boating!

A boat can have all the problems an RV can have, with the added attraction that a boat can also sink.

[wholybee]

Originally Posted by FTS

A boat can have all the problems an RV can have, with the added attraction that a boat can also sink.

An RV is just a boat so poorly built that it won't float.

[Kd9truck]

“Between the DEVIL. And the deep blue sea”

The “devil” in ship wood ship building is the plank at the water line, it has the most curves on the longest lengths. It’s a devil to get in place.

At least that’s what my carpenter friend told me
Cheers

[pbmaise]

I can't believe you didn't know you needed to.....!

Explanation: The learning curve is pretty steep when it comes to living aboard and maintaining a cruising vessel, sails, engine, anchoring system etc. I had to accept the fact their always seemed to be other sailors who would admonish me for not doing something I didn't know I was supposed to do.

Do you really like to live like this?

Explanation: A guest helped me paddle a kayak to shore, fill up the jerry cans with drinking/wash water, and then paddle back and haul them up on deck. She then asked if I liked to live like this. And...all I had to do on that trip was fill them up at the dock without even lugging the jerry cans up the hill and pumping the hand pump by hand. A pump I had to prime first. So she saw a very easy trip. The question infuriated me for some reason because I never considered this to be anything more than something I needed to do without questioning it.

[gulfislandfred]

On searching for, buying, and advising others about 'project' boats


SOMETIMES FREE IS NOT CHEAP ENOUGH!

[Reeve21]

"One hand for yourself, one hand for the ship"

(This one has probably already been mentioned, but I didn't see it).

"It's called a boom because that is the noise you will hear if it hits your head"

(I may have made up that one myself, but I've been saying it so long to guests that I may have forgotten the origin).

[wgerstmyer]

I’ve had banana aboard, and a half one for breakfast, my entire life. They come from islands out at sea so spend a lot of time on boats. Where does this saying come from?

[Montanan]

Originally Posted by pbmaise

[B]

Do you really like to live like this?

Explanation: A guest helped me paddle a kayak to shore, fill up the jerry cans with drinking/wash water, and then paddle back and haul them up on deck. She then asked if I liked to live like this. And...all I had to do on that trip was fill them up at the dock without even lugging the jerry cans up the hill and pumping the hand pump by hand. A pump I had to prime first. So she saw a very easy trip. The question infuriated me for some reason because I never considered this to be anything more than something I needed to do without questioning it.

Apologize for this thread departure; you have touched a topic of personal involvement:

FYI, reality check: Yes, hundreds of millions of people live like that but transport via a short distance on a kayak, would be considered an unimaginable luxury. Ready access to potable water is a privilege, a privilege that is far too often taken for granted by people of the developed world. On average, women and children in developing countries walk 5 kilometers / 3.7 miles and carry 5 to 10 gallons everyday day to bring clean water home to their families. Often the quality of source water is dubious. Often the jug is carried balanced upon their heads or strapped to their backs.

Reference images of water carriers linked here:
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q...IQFRML&first=1

The essential task of providing water for households falls disproportionately to women and girls, especially in rural areas. One of my keen motivators for developing and commercializing our AirJoule atmospheric water vapor and latent thermal energy harvesting technology has been to free women in particular, [mothers and daughters] from this laborious family responsibility task so as to free them up for other productive activities and lifestyles, [e.g., availing the young daughters to attend schooling, instead of arduously hauling water, once or twice a day]. Via AirJoule's highly efficient harvesting, humidity [water in vapor phase] can be an excellent source of pure water and can become a primary renewable energy resource joining the other primary renewable energy resources of water in liquid phase [falling and flowing hydropower], solar, wind, geothermal and biomass.

Returning back to the thread:

You, me and the sea.

Calm down, I’m a Sailor, I’ve seen worse.

Got Wind?

Save fuel, drive a sailboat.

[GrowleyMonster]

"SLEEPS SIX!"