Course Quotes

Everyday the Captain would have a quote on the board as well as the room that was doing the weather forecast for the day. Courtesy of Bekah Williamson, here is a compilation of all those quotes.


There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes. –Norwegian Proverb

No amount of skill, no equipment, and no boat will keep you from disaster if you don’t develop the most important seagoing skill of all, a complete fear of falling overboard. –Lin and Larry Pardey

Adventure is the result of bad planning. –Roald Amundsen

To be at one with the wind is to be at home in the world. –Richard Bodie

The time to reef is when it first occurs to you that it may become necessary. –Anon

Any damned fool can put a sail up. It’ll take a seaman to get it down. –Spike Africa

Whenever I forget how talented God is, I look at the sea. –Whoopi Goldberg

Anyone can navigate the seas sober, but it takes a damn good sailor to navigate them drunk. –Sir
Charles Chichester (While loading his boat with rum)

Never mistake motion for action. Ernest Hemingway

If one doesn’t know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. –Seneca

Get what you can afford, sail what you can handle, love what you are doing. –Tristan Jones

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. –MLK jr.

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

I don’t know who named them swells. There is nothing swell about them. They should be named the
awfuls. –Hugo Uihen.

Cruising has been defined as traveling to a distant location to make repairs in an exotic place.

Sailing is a good sport. You don’t have to beat up the other guy like you do in boxing or football; you just try to outsail him and outsmart him and then you go out and have a beer with him. –John Kolius

When all is said and done, more is said than done. –Lov Holtz

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with 2 termites. Anon

The cure for anything is saltwater-sweat, tears, or the sea. –Isak Binson

Don’t get all stress and weird on me. –Captain

The wind folded like a cheap lawn chair. –Captain.