Signatures ?

[Jolly Roger]

I have been a member of this Cruising Forum, (which I think is the best one), for fourteen years. One of the interesting things, apart from reading actual posts, are some of the signatures at the end of messages, some funny and some poignant.
I have scrolled back ten pages and found 24 which I like the best. I’m sure there are others which I’ve missed as well. My personal favorite is first, because I identify with it so much on my own boat.
"I shall now amuse the fleet" Horatio Nelson before Trafalgar.
Enjoy. JR.

If it ain’t broke, it will be when I fix it.

If you didn't have the time or money to do it right in the first place, when will you get the time or money to fix it?

I spent most of my money on booze, broads and boats. The rest I wasted.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Jobless, houseless, clueless, living on a boat and cruising around somewhere.

Having a yacht is reason for being more cheerful than most.

Special knowledge can be a terrible disadvantage if it leads you too far along a path that you cannot explain anymore.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

It is not so much for its beauty that the Sea makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air, that emanation from the waves, that so wonderfully renews a weary spirit.

Who scorns the calm has forgotten the storm.

One should try to die young, but as old as possible.

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Some of the best times of my life were spent on a boat. It just took a long time to realize it.

That hysterical laughter you hear as you sail a way in your "new" boat is the seller.

Slightest puff is all it takes and we are gone, over the horizon, to whatever lies beyond, sailing—sailing on.

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.

1st rule of yachting: When a collision is unavoidable, aim for something cheap.

Cruising is entirely about showing up—in boat shoes.

So many projects—so little time!

Rust is the poor man's Loctite.

The water is always bluer on the other side of the ocean.

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

I had resolved on a voyage around the world, and as the wind on the morning of April 24 1895 was fair, at noon I weighed anchor…

Simplicity made the boat a pleasure to sail.