Sailing is like standing under a cold shower ripping up one hundred notes.

I new about whistling on a boat, but bananas bad luck?

You can only pee to windward once you have rounded Cape Horn.

If you think it is time to reef, you should have done it half an hour ago.

We run a tight ship here. Lately though some of us have been getting too tight too often.

BOAT = Bring Out Another Thousand

The sea has neither meaning or pity.

When a man comes to like a sea life, he is not fit to live on land

There was a whole bunch of "cruising" sayings That went - - - -


Cruising, The slowest most expensive way of getting there!

Cruising, Fixing or repairing your boat in exotic Ports. -------

crustysailor said...
I new about whistling on a boat, but bananas bad luck?

Not sure about the whistling, but the bananas are definitely bad luck. Although this actually came about when they started taking bananas as fruit on voyages, because of their very short shelf life, they would go rotten very quickly, but emit a chemical that sent anything around them that wasn't sealed rotten as well. Hence they were deemed bad luck because all the fresh food went rotten very quickly.

"Gentlemen don't sail to windward."

Michael

MichaelR said...

crustysailor said...
I new about whistling on a boat, but bananas bad luck?

Not sure about the whistling, but the bananas are definitely bad luck. Although this actually came about when they started taking bananas as fruit on voyages, because of their very short shelf life, they would go rotten very quickly, but emit a chemical that sent anything around them that wasn't sealed rotten as well. Hence they were deemed bad luck because all the fresh food went rotten very quickly.

"Gentlemen don't sail to windward."

Michael

My deckhands were forbidden to bring oranges and bananas on the boat because the smell tainted the livebait.

Marriages performed by the Captain are valid for the duration of the voyage only.

If it flys floats or fornicates, rent it...

Ive Heard never paint a boat green ?

^^^^ Spot on Disralei.

What fun is there in cruisin' with out boozin' ???

If you are gonna keep the milk cold, why not do the beer too.

My daughter gave me a bottle of the world's finest Rum for Christmas. Angostura 1824, aged for 12 years in a charred oak barrel at Port of Spain, Trinidad.

Merry Christmas you gang of swabs!!