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    Bring me my brown trousers!

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    Quote Originally Posted by breakaway View Post
    bring me my brown trousers!

    Kevin
    this!!!
    Schooner sailors love to get blown offshore!

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    In a puff , spring a luff.
    In a lull, keep em full.

    said with a broad english accent, maybe pirate speak...

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    ... a lightning tack into oblivion......
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    “It’s impossible”, said pride.
    “It’s risky”, said experience.
    “It’s pointless”, said reason.
    “Give it a try”, whispered the heart.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breakaway View Post
    Bring me my brown trousers!
    i think that might be the one

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    The first thing you've got to learn about this ship is that she was DESIGNED by GENIUSES, to be RUN by IDIOTS! - Lt Keefer- the Caine mutiny

    Ahh, but the strawberries! That's - that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with - geometric logic - that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist! And I'd have PRODUCED that key if they hadn't've pulled the Caine out of action! I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers - Cpt Queeg

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    He who would keep himself busy let him equip these two: a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business once you start to fit them out, nor are these two ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them.

    Titus Macciums Platus
    c. 254-184 BC

    Guess not much has changed in 2,200 hundred years - huh guys

    -M

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    I never wrecked a boat while awake or sober
    ( all my quotes so far are authored by me )

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    Quote Originally Posted by Concordia...41 View Post
    He who would keep himself busy let him equip these two: a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business once you start to fit them out, nor are these two ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them.

    Titus Macciums Platus
    c. 254-184 BC

    Guess not much has changed in 2,200 hundred years - huh guys

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    ”To marry a wife will cost you much trouble,
    But to fit out a ship, the expenses are double!”
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    “Do you think we might improve the shining hour by putting a tack in?”

    - My late father, as we thundered towards a lee shore.
    IMAGINES VEL NON FUERINT

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    Skipper!

    Yes

    That seagull's walking.


    Ready about.
    I'd much rather lay in my bunk all freakin day lookin at Youtube videos .

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    "So far this season I've only lost 3 boats, and one of those wasn't really my fault."

    -Schooner Rat
    Schooner sailors love to get blown offshore!

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    “I’d much rather lay in my freaking bunk all day lookin at YouTube videos”
    that one is actually mine too

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    When your draft exceeds your depth you are aground.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Concordia...41 View Post
    He who would keep himself busy let him equip these two: a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business once you start to fit them out, nor are these two ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them.

    Titus Macciums Platus
    c. 254-184 BC

    Guess not much has changed in 2,200 hundred years - huh guys

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    So Margo - are you saying you're high maintenance?

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    You said you were selling the boat.
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    "The mark of a great ship handler, is never getting into situations, that require great ship handling." Ernest King

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    You look green - Go to the rail if you feel you are going to throw up.
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    If you gotta take a leak, go down wind.
    Without friends none of this is possible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ted Hoppe View Post
    You look green - Go to the rail if you feel you are going to throw up.
    NO! The LEE rail!
    "If it ain't broke, you're not trying." - Red Green

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    "I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man." -Joshua Slocum-

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    If you fall overboard on the way out, I'll look for you on the way back.
    If you fall overboard on the way back, I'll be going out again on Tuesday.

    -Schooner Rat
    Schooner sailors love to get blown offshore!

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    "This is going to be a fighting ship. I intend to go in harm's way, and anyone who doesn't want to go along had better get off right now". Commander Ernest E Evans, USS Johnston, 1943
    “Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles and see the world is moving" - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ted Hoppe View Post
    You said you were selling the boat.
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    I was born on a wooden boat that I built myself.
    Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.

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    Please return to the boat before 2pm so we may begin our voyage home. For the sailors and soldiers among you, that's 1400. For you marines, that's when Mickey's left hand is on the 12 and his right is on the 2.

    -Schooner Rat
    Schooner sailors love to get blown offshore!

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