Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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.
- Mark Twain

There is no such thing as bad weather-just inappropriate clothing.

Auckland is a drinking town with a sailing problem.

Good judgment comes from experience.  Experience comes from bad judgment.

It is better to be on a boat with a drink on the rocks than in the drink with the boat on the rocks.

I’d much rather sail with a novice sailer who is a nice person than an expert sailor who is a jerk.  It is far easier to teach the novice to sail than to teach the jerk to be a nice person.

When you are lying on your deathbed, you won’t wish that you had spent more time at the office-Dr. Meyer Fiedman

Never approach a dock faster than you are willing to hit it.

I spent most of my money on booze, boats and broads, and squandered the rest-??

If you have enough time, you will never have to sail in bad weather.

Girls don’t lay down in boats they can’t stand up in.

“To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen, who play with their boats at sea - “cruising,” it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about.” -Sterling Hayden

Without passion, its just wind and water.

The ocean will not tolerate errors nor will it remit any of the penalty which attaches to them.  To hope that when something has been overlooked or left undone aboard a vessel at sea, the fullest penalty will not be exacted is merely to delude oneself, and perhaps the hardest part of voyaging is to make the necessary switch in thinking from that of a landsman to that of a seaman.  On land whatever may happen to us there is always help available.  At sea, the only help is self help: the only supplies those that are carried aboard.

He who voyages on a small vessel at sea must be a rigger, carpenter, electrician, blacksmith, mechanic, navigator, and above all an improviser of wide imagination and the strongest tenacity. –author unknown