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  • Rich Jones
    What boat to build next?
    • Apr 2009
    • 19676

    Greatest nautical quote of all time

    Came across this one while surfing the interwebs.

    "Ooooo! Belay there you long-eared galoot and furl the top tatter-sole top gallants before I keel-hauls ya!" -Yosemite Sam
    I was born on a wooden boat that I built myself.
    Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.
  • Todd Bradshaw
    Sailmaker
    • Jun 2000
    • 11087

    #2
    Re: Greatest nautical quote of all time

    You're gonna need a bigger boat.

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    • Paul Pless
      pinko commie tree hugger
      • Oct 2003
      • 124858

      #3
      Re: Greatest nautical quote of all time

      there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats

      - kenneth grahame
      Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.

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      • Paul Pless
        pinko commie tree hugger
        • Oct 2003
        • 124858

        #4
        Re: Greatest nautical quote of all time

        Houses, are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. They are definitely inferior things, belonging to the vegetable not the animal world, rooted and stationary, incapable of gay transition. I admit, doubtfully, as exceptions, snail-shells and caravans. The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting-place.


        - arthur ransome
        Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.

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        • jpatrick
          Measures twice/Cuts twice
          • Jun 2010
          • 4015

          #5
          Re: Greatest nautical quote of all time

          'Uh-oh... we shoulda reefed!' —uttered by sailors everywhere

          Jeff

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          • Rich Jones
            What boat to build next?
            • Apr 2009
            • 19676

            #6
            Re: Greatest nautical quote of all time

            Originally posted by Paul Pless
            there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats

            - kenneth grahame
            The winner! Nothing else can come close.
            I was born on a wooden boat that I built myself.
            Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.

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            • Rich Jones
              What boat to build next?
              • Apr 2009
              • 19676

              #7
              Re: Greatest nautical quote of all time

              Bound is boatless man.

              -WoodenBoat Proverb
              I was born on a wooden boat that I built myself.
              Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.

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              • shortboot
                Member
                • Feb 2022
                • 82

                #8
                Re: Greatest nautical quote of all time

                Long John Silver "Them that died were the lucky ones"

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                • Rich Jones
                  What boat to build next?
                  • Apr 2009
                  • 19676

                  #9
                  Re: Greatest nautical quote of all time

                  Originally posted by Paul Pless
                  Houses, are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. They are definitely inferior things, belonging to the vegetable not the animal world, rooted and stationary, incapable of gay transition. I admit, doubtfully, as exceptions, snail-shells and caravans. The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting-place.


                  - arthur ransome
                  I've built both yet get a greater sense of satisfaction in the crafting of a boat.
                  I was born on a wooden boat that I built myself.
                  Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.

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                  • Jim Bow
                    Still tender and callow f
                    • Jul 2008
                    • 24044

                    #10
                    Re: Greatest nautical quote of all time

                    She was a ship of the old school, rather small if anything; with an old fashioned claw-footed look about her. Long seasoned and weather-stained in the typhoons and calms of all four oceans, her old hull's complexion was darkened like a French grenadier's, who has alike fought in Egypt and Siberia. Her venerable bows looked bearded. Her masts... stood stiffly up like the spines of the three old kings of Cologne. Her ancient decks were worn and wrinkled, like the pilgrim-worshipped flag-stone in Canterbury Cathedral where Beckettbled. But to all these her old antiquities, were added new and marvellous features, pertaining to the wild business that for more than half a century she had followed
                    “Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles and see the world is moving" - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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                    • Andrew Craig-Bennett
                      Who?
                      • Aug 1999
                      • 28449

                      #11
                      Re: Greatest nautical quote of all time

                      “I do not say the French cannot come. I only say they cannot come by sea.”

                      Admiral the Earl St Vincent, speaking to the House of Lords on Napoleon’s planned invasion, 1803.

                      He was right.
                      IMAGINES VEL NON FUERINT

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                      • Paul Pless
                        pinko commie tree hugger
                        • Oct 2003
                        • 124858

                        #12
                        Re: Greatest nautical quote of all time

                        give a man a fish
                        feed him for a day
                        teach a man to fish
                        he'll sit around in a boat
                        drinking beer all day
                        Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.

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                        • Ian McColgin
                          Senior Member
                          • Apr 1999
                          • 51656

                          #13
                          Re: Greatest nautical quote of all time

                          An adventure is a sign of incompetence.
                          - Vilhjalmur Stefansson

                          The irony of this guy saying this staggers the mind.

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                          • Garret
                            Hills of Vermont
                            • Apr 2005
                            • 48624

                            #14
                            Re: Greatest nautical quote of all time

                            Originally posted by Ian McColgin
                            An adventure is a sign of incompetence.
                            - Vilhjalmur Stefansson

                            The irony of this guy saying this staggers the mind.
                            After the first time my ex-wife & I went on vacation, she said "You don't do vacations, you do adventures". I took it as a compliment at the time, but note the "ex"...

                            Paul's Ransome quote is a good 'un - but the fish one rings true as well.
                            "If it ain't broke, you're not trying." - Red Green

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                            • Bobcat
                              Formerly a Smallboat Guy
                              • May 2007
                              • 9561

                              #15
                              Re: Greatest nautical quote of all time

                              England expects each man to do his duty.
                              What's not on a boat costs nothing, weighs nothing, and can't break

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