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

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails." --Bertha Calloway.

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for" -William Shedd

"If you can't repair it, maybe it shouldn't be on board" -Lin and Larry Pardee

A quote from Sterling Hayden's book, "Wanderer":

To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you will be 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.

I've always wanted to sail to the South Seas, but I can't afford it." What these men can't afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of 'security'. And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine - and before we know it our lives are gone.

"What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense, and we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention for the sheer idiocy of the charade.

"At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much" -Robin Lee Graham

I knew my sailing friends could relate to at least some of these. Enjoy!