Thoughts, Musings, Ramblings...

[MarioG]

..... The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place….

.....It begins as a little cloud on a serene horizon. It ends by covering the whole sky, so that you can think of nothing else. You must build to regain your freedom.

 

[MarioG]

"For the truth is that I already know as much about my fate as I need to know. The day will come when I will die. So the only matter of consequence before me is what I will do with my allotted time. I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze."

Richard Bode
First You Have to Row a Little Boat

 

[MarioG]

"Do they ask me what pleasure I find on the sea?
- Why, absence from land is a pleasure to me:
A hamper of porter, and plenty of grog,
A friend, when too sleepy, to give me a jog,
A coop that will always some poultry afford,
Some bottles of gin, and no parson on board,
A crew that is brisk when it happens to blow,
One compass on deck and another below,
A girl, with more sense than the girl at the head,
To read me a novel, or make up me bed --
The man that has these, has a treasure in store
That millions possess not who live upon shore."

Philip Freneau

 

[MarioG]

What do we plant when we plant the tree?
We plant the ship that will cross the sea,
We plant the mast to carry the sails,
We plant the planks to withstand the gales-
The keel, the keelson, and beam and knee-
We plant the ship when we plant the tree.

Henry Abbey

 

[(Nobody You Know)]

I'll help you out...this is the message on the back of my card...

On an ancient wall in China where a brooding Buddha blinks,
Deeply graven is the message - it is later than you think.
The clock of life is wound but once and no man has the power,
To tell just when the hands will stop, at late or early hour.
Now is all the time you own, the past a golden link,
Go cruising now my brother - it is later than you think.
Anonymous

 

[MikeP]

If you drive a car, I'll tax the street
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat
If you get too cold, I'll tax the heat
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet
TAXMAN!
George Harrison

 

[Capt.Erich]

"If you don't hear from me in 10 days call the Coast Guard."

I told this to my mother as I was sailing out of Beaufort Inlet heading to Bermuda. I called her seven days later from the White Horse Tavern in St. George's after a few Dark and Stormies. She has never forgiven me for this.

 

[MarioG]

"I know who you are, but you'll have to wipe your feet."

-Capt. Richard Brown of the schooner America to Prince Albert of England, 1851

 

[jeff shayne]

comb a dog; wash a dog; still a dog!

 

[jim rosenthal]

Don't look back; something may be gaining on you.
(Satchel Paige)

 

[the kuz]

"You can always get more money. You can't get more time." (Me).

Regards, Bob K

 

[MarioG]

"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.

 

[(Nobody You Know)]

“The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax. “.
Albert Einstein.

 

[Sparky1]

Any body remember this one. I prayed the serenity prayer but never received the requested wisdom.

 

[dwaynec]

Kinda goes along with "American by birth, Southern by......"

 

[yachtsmanbill]

verbessern, um die Schmerz als zu sitzen und zu glauben, die Scheiße zu riechen und die Schande zu tragen ws

 

[Wild Bill]

"It's not what you look like when you're doing what you're doing,
It's what you're doing when you're doing what it looks like you're doing."

 

[yachtsmanbill]

Dont let the bastards rough you up... youve always got a classic line there. WB!
ws

 

[MarioG]

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." -William Arthur Ward

 

[spartonboat1]

"It's a great life if you don't weaken"...one of my father's favorite sayings (90YOA); but I found him out. It is the name of a number one hit song from 1938, his sr. year of H.S.

"It's a good day if you can sit up and take nourishment!". Another of my father's favorite sayings and original, as far as I know. I now understand and agree!!!

"Who isshhhee?" "Ahh dunno" "eeYou ashker name"...my father's words over three good sneezes...

"When we are 18, our convictions are the hills from which we judge the world. In middle age, they are the caves from which we protect ourselves." paraphrase from F. Scott Fitzgerald (ok... overheard from Garrison Keeler on a Prarie Home Companion).