Quotable Quotes - Sailing

Nice - like my favourite quote of Dubya's (True or not true depending who you ask):-

"The problem with the French, is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur."

(stolen from another sailing site!)

While running a charter boat in St Thomas USVI.

1. Guest asked "how do these islands stay here"? To which I replied, "well mam
they (the islands) have two big anchors, one at either end. Thats the
reason airfares are cheaper in the summer, because of the warmer weather,
we are able to move the islands North".

2. Another question asked. "Do you and your crew live here"? "No mam we fly in
from the mainland every morning".

3. Upon looking over a harbor full of anchored boats,a guest asked:

"Is it proper nautical etiquette for everyone to have their boat facing the
same way while parked in harbor?"

The answer: "The owners get fined if their boats don't face the same
direction".

4. A very large lady and her husband where on a day charter boat with about
fifty other guests. Her husband decided to go snorkelling, just before he
left the boat, his wife handed him two empty plastic water bottles and
asked. "Bob, get me some of that light blue water over there and some of
the darker blue water over there"!

When its windy......

Its blowing dogs of chains..... or its blowing the numbers of the sails.

Rides like this set boats and sailors appart...... often tearing them appart.

My old Tae Kwon Do instructor's favorite line was "It's only pain......  It doesnt hurt".  Did not make sense to me but I was not about to argue.