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| Sea Cruise |
| The Wind Howls For all who love the sea Within the blue spinnaker The wind howls like a banshee The lanyard cries and squeaks Against the unflagging assault of the winds Your boat bounces along Like a cork in a maelstrom Oh, but the thrill of the wind in your face You laugh and raise your fist Then shout--is this your best shot? As your vessel plummets down another watery slope are you afraid? Why? You have been here before on other days and in other storms will you survive? Only God knows for sure but with a stiff upper lip you will press on for your home is the sea... You are an Old Salt. Louis Joseph Barbier |
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| Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do then by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ---- Mark Twain |
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| HMS Queen Mary II |
| "....There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyages of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea we are now afloat and must take the current when it serves or lose our venture." ------ William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar |
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| "Home is the sailor, home from the sea and the hunter, home from the hill." ---- Robert Lewis Stevenson |
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| Miraflores Locks at night... |
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