• Tack on Fridays

    I’m not a great believer in putting up my sails in the morning and stowing them at night.

    If I put up my sails, I’m going to keep them up for three weeks and tack on Fridays.

    Robin Knox Johnson

    Robin Knox-Johnston was the first person to sail solo and non-stop around the world, in 1969, aboard his teak ketch Suhaili.

  • Houses are but badly built boats

    Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final anchorage.

    – Arthur Ransome, from Racundra’s First Cruise, 1923