Ed 143 Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it - J. P. Morgan Link to post Share on other sites
mountie 0 Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 "I'm scared of the day that people find out how little I know". Mike McCormick. Kiwi (Tauranga) navigator on the top Admiral's cup yacht, when the Admiral's cup was the world's top yachting event (around 1980). Link to post Share on other sites
nz moth 0 Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 This is my favourite "Adventure means risking something; and it is only when we are doing that that we know really what a splendid thing life is and how splendidly it can be lived... The man who dares never does; the man who never risks never wins. It is far better to venture and fail than to lie on the hearthrug like a sleepily purring cat. Only fools laugh at failure; wise men laugh at the lazy and the too-contented and at those who are so timid that they dare undertake nothing." Alain Gerbault Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 'We would be better off sailing orakei wharf in the Americas cup' Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Anyone that says they have never been scared at sea is a liar. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Bowman: 'Which gate left or right?' Helm: 'it'll be what it'll be' Bowman to mastman: 'ok so at the bottom we're going to drop the kite in the piss!' ( loud enough for helm to hear) 'We're not crossing!' 'I know' BANG! 'Whats he doing on the bow?!!!!' 'He's the bowman' Link to post Share on other sites
1paulg 17 Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 "Your boat isn't a cat - it's a dog !" Dennis Conner Link to post Share on other sites
Terry B 71 Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Awesome quote from one of Ray Bradburys books (can't remember which one). He wrote Fahrenheit 451 amongst others............. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 " does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours" Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 "The single most effective thing anyone can do to make their boat go faster is also one of the cheapest. Clean the bottom." Brandan Hogg. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 "You can call it a shitbox if you like - but at least I own it" Me (yesterday!) Link to post Share on other sites
tuffyluffy 76 Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 The floggings will continue until morale improves Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 "A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind" --Webb Chiles Link to post Share on other sites
TimB 7 Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 Building a Boat Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. They are definitely inferior things, belonging to the vegetable not the animal world, rooted and stationary, incapable of gay transition. I admit, doubtfully, as exceptions, snail shells and caravans. The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place. It is for that reason, perhaps, that. When it comes, the desire to build a boat is one of those that cannot be resisted. It begins as a little cloud on the horizon. It ends by covering the whole sky, so that you can think of nothing else. You must build to regain your freedom. And always you comfort yourself with the thought that yours will be the perfect boat, the boat that you may search the harbours of the world for and not find. By Jonathan Cape Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 " does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours" The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay if they'd put fifteen more miles behind 'er. Link to post Share on other sites
Pumbaa 9 Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 The secret to making a small fortune in the marine industry is to start with a large one. Bob Link to post Share on other sites
idlerboat 116 Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 The secret to making a small fortune in the marine industry is to start with a large one. The secret to making a fortune is calling something marine !.... Link to post Share on other sites
idlerboat 116 Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 " i am sure it said 20 knots....." " I am sure we were doing 20 knots ...." "..and for the 20th time I was knot exagerating..." "..in a field of 20 boats, knot comming last is a sign of improvement" "..you dont need 20 knots, only two.." "..20 knots, is close to 40 Kmh...oh sorry your American " Link to post Share on other sites
broadoak 0 Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 We quite like this one too 'It is not the lofty sails, but the unseen wind that moves the yacht." unknown Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 My late Father-in-law on one (or more) of his fellow skippers:- "Him! He couldn't sail a turd around a piss-pot" Link to post Share on other sites
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