|
|
| YOLO | Do what you can while you can. There is no iron-clad contract with Life that states that things will go the way you plan them. | | |
| Capt Keith | "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails... Explore... Dream... Discover..." | | |
| rbatt2 | "It is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea---whether it is to sail or to watch it---we are going back from whence we came." - John F. Kennedy | | |
| battbat23 | A smooth sea never made for a skillfull sailor | | |
| battbat23 | The world's best bilge pump is a scared boater with a bucket. | | |
| battbat23 | “When the tides of life turn against you and the current upsets your boat, don't waste those tears on what might have been, just lie on your back and float." | | |
| YOLO | If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. | | |
| YOLO | If you don't have time to do it right in the first place, when are you going to have time to fix it? | | |
| YOLO | "Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, penniless, shouting, 'Holy Sh*t! What a ride!'" | | |
| YOLO | "A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could only have one book, what would it be? I always say 'How to Build a Boat'” Stephen Wright | | |
| YOLO | "The only way to get a good crew is to marry one." - Eric Hiscock | | |
| battbat23 | “The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.” | | |
| battbat23 | “O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small” | | |
| battbat23 | “I have seen the sea when it is stormy and wild; when it is quiet and serene; when it is dark and moody. And in all its moods, I see myself.” | | |
| battbat23 | “The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.” | | |
| battbat23 | “Nodding the head does not row the boat” | | |
| battbat23 | “The water is the same on both sides of the boat” | | |
| battbat23 | “Give a man a horse he can ride, give a man a boat he can sail; and his rank and wealth, his strength and health on sea nor shore shall fail.” - James Tompson | | |
| battbat23 | “We all in the same boat brother. You rock it too far to the right you fall in the waddah, rock it too far to the left you fall in the same waddah, and it's just as wet on both sides.” | | |
| battbat23 | “A lot of people go through life like they are rowing a boat. They look at where they have been (the PAST) rather than where they are going (the FUTURE).” | | |
| battbat23 | Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose. | | |
| heron381 | Meridian owners are cool. | | |
| YOLO | Boating is not a matter of Life or Death. It's more important than that. | | |
| Capt Keith | Just Do It - Nike | | |
| rbatt2 | “There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” Kenneth Grahame | | |
| rbatt2 | "Hey! You scratched my anchor!" -- Rodney Dangerfield in "Caddyshack" | | |
| rbatt2 | "We're gonna need a bigger boat." -- Chief Brody in "Jaws" | | |
| Bluebird | "When your memories outnumber your dreams the end is near" | | |
| Mikey Likes It | Tip: Never stand up in a canoe | | |
| Mikey Likes It | Fair weather friends might be sails, give me twin engines | | |
| Mikey Likes It | How come we have the perfect storm but no perfect boat? | | |
| Mikey Likes It | Never say never..OOPS | | |
| Mikey Likes It | Arrive at the dock at the speed that you want to hit the dock | | |
| Mikey Likes It | Every day afloat is a day lived | | |
| Mikey Likes It | Boating days do not count against your lifespan | | |
| Mikey Likes It | Never, in the Field of Human Conflict, has so much been owed, by so many, to so Few.....Winston Churchill and maybe GPS too | | |
| YOLO | Hold my beer, I wanna try something... | | |
| Bella Vista | A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. | | |
| YOLO | "It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better." -Sir Francis Drake | | |
| Refuge V | BOAT = Bring Out Another Thousand | | |
| Refuge V | For all Project Guys : "If it deserves to be done ... it deserves to be done WELL" | | |
| nautimary | Men, The world is your bathroom..........15 year old boy scout | | |
| Boy N Sea | The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. | | |
| YOLO | "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea..." - Antoine de Saint Exupery | | |
| YOLO | There’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes. - Old Norwegian Adage | | |
| YOLO | There are three sorts of people; those who are alive, those who are dead, and those who are at sea. - Old Capstan Chantey attributed to Anacharsis, 6th Century BC | | |
| YOLO | "He was now convinced that the most valuable sail on board was the diesel." | | |
| YOLO | "To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out." - Sir Francis Chichester | | |
| YOLO | "Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk." -Sir Francis Chichester while loading his boat with gin. | | |
| rbatt2 | Heaven is not puffy clouds and angels with harps. It's teak and varnish and fiberglass. Passion and pride. It's not a place you go when life is over. It's where life begins. Heaven is real and it's now. And it's measured in feet along the waterline... | | |
| Midlife Sanity IV | "I am spending your money wisely." - Jimmy Buffett | | |
| YOLO | A superior boater uses his superior judgement to avoid situations requiring his superior skills. | | |
| YOLO | We must be near land, we have just enough gas to make it... and we're out of gas! | | |
| YOLO | What kind of knot is that? It's a Might Knot. Might hold, might knot | | |
| YOLO | It's easy to simulate the joys of boating. Just stand in a cold shower and tear up $100 dollar bills. | | |
| CamMan | "Treat every day as it were your last because someday it will be" | | |
| CamMan | Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.' After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. | | |
