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Created by hangtime > 9 months ago, 19 Dec 2012
hangtime
NSW, 397 posts
19 Dec 2012 9:04AM
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Weve all heard em either positive or negative (usualy negative ) .
Got any boat sayings youd like to share? Here's one -


Theres only ever two good days when you own a boat!
The day you buy it and the day you sell it!

MattM14
NSW, 190 posts
19 Dec 2012 10:21AM
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Sailing is like standing under a cold shower ripping up one hundred notes.

Jethrow
NSW, 1282 posts
19 Dec 2012 11:49AM
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Red sky at night, sailors delight?

crustysailor
VIC, 871 posts
19 Dec 2012 12:34PM
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I new about whistling on a boat, but bananas bad luck?

cisco
QLD, 12365 posts
20 Dec 2012 12:04AM
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Jethrow said...
Red sky at night, sailors delight?


Red sky in the morning, sailors warning.

cisco
QLD, 12365 posts
20 Dec 2012 12:09AM
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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.

hills
SA, 1622 posts
20 Dec 2012 8:39AM
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A boat is just a hole in the water you throw money into.

QLDCruiser
QLD, 160 posts
20 Dec 2012 9:32AM
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BOAT = Bring Out Another Thousand

MattM14
NSW, 190 posts
20 Dec 2012 1:07PM
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It's blowing the dogs off their chains (a favourite of my late old man).

"Sailing; The fine art of getting wet, becomming ill whilst slowly going nowhere at great expense." Whoever came up with that was clearly not a sailor.

Disralei
NSW, 127 posts
20 Dec 2012 8:07PM
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The sea has neither meaning or pity.

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

cisco
QLD, 12365 posts
20 Dec 2012 8:44PM
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Disralei said...
The sea has neither meaning or pity.

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


That is the best and truest one yet Disralei. If seawater gets in your blood, you are knackered for most anything else.

hangtime
NSW, 397 posts
20 Dec 2012 11:07PM
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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. -------

cisco
QLD, 12365 posts
21 Dec 2012 7:53AM
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From a very funny little book called "The Art of Coarse Cruising" which is sprinkled with illustrated "Gems from the Mudbanks" such as:-

"When weeds and grass appear on the bow, it is time to come about."

MichaelR
NSW, 862 posts
21 Dec 2012 9:06AM
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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

whiteout
QLD, 269 posts
21 Dec 2012 1:13PM
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Never leave port on a Friday

Ramona
NSW, 7758 posts
21 Dec 2012 6:14PM
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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.

MorningBird
NSW, 2711 posts
21 Dec 2012 7:04PM
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The skipper only goes for'ard of the mast to pay the cheques.

cisco
QLD, 12365 posts
22 Dec 2012 9:34AM
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Marriages performed by the Captain are valid for the duration of the voyage only.

Donk107
TAS, 2446 posts
24 Dec 2012 10:19AM
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If you can't tie knots tie lots

Regards Don

Toph
WA, 1891 posts
24 Dec 2012 9:09AM
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If it flys floats or fornicates, rent it...

rumblefish
TAS, 824 posts
25 Dec 2012 9:18AM
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"Weight belongs in steam rollers" - Ben Lexcen

KiteBilly
VIC, 90 posts
25 Dec 2012 6:03PM
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Ive Heard never paint a boat green ?

Disralei
NSW, 127 posts
25 Dec 2012 10:08PM
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One i'm sure Cisco will appreciate

"Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk."
- Sir Francis Chichester

cisco
QLD, 12365 posts
27 Dec 2012 1:16AM
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^^^^ 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!!



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