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Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING --absolutely nothing-- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
Kenneth Grahame, "Wind in the Willow"

Andy Rooney.

I grew up with boats on a lake we went to summers, but boating is one of the most tense ways to relax. Unlike cars, boats very often don't work. There's often something wrong with a boat and boats are certainly one of the most expensive pleasures known to man. A boat is more expensive than a hotel and then you have to pay to put it away in winter. I often pass a big boatyard or docking area with hundreds of boats just sitting there in the water, doing nothing. There is no single toy Americans own so many of that they use so infrequently, as their boats."

Lou Holtz (1937-, American Football Coach)

"If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on."

Anonymous

"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day."

"Please pray for my husband. He spends most of his time playing with boats!"

Randy Wayne White: The Mangrove Coast

"People with the boat bug are never happier than when they are poking around marinas, fantasizing about owning other people's boats. It's a disease that costs more to cure than any other single common learning disability."

David O'Neal: The Sailor's Hornbook or abc; With a Vermiform appendix on Racing Terminology

"Collision Course. 1. The approved method of approaching another boat closely enough to determine who has right of way and to attempt evasive manuevers if it does not.  2. A collision course can degenerate into what on land, with cars, is called chicken, and is not to be attempted by the faint-hearted, who should choose an alternate course."

Christopher Buckley: Boomsday, a Novel:

He owned a 275 foot motor yacht that had just appeared on the cover of Vulgar Yacht Quarterly........"

Charles Brower

"You cannot sink someone else's end of the boat and still keep your own afloat."

Roy Scheider "Jaws" 1975

"You're gonna need a bigger boat."

John Breaux Former US Congressman and US Senator For Louisiana

"I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better."

Gary Frankel - Cockpit Confessions, Pacific Yacht Magazine

"The end stages of Boat Building Disease can make a strong man cry."

Arthur Ransome "Racundra's First Cruise" 1923

"The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting-place. It is for that reason, perhaps, that, when it comes, the desire to build a boat is one of those that cannot be resisted. It begins as a little cloud on a serene horizon. It ends by covering the whole sky, so that you can think of nothing else. You must build to regain your freedom. And always you comfort yourself with the thought that yours will be the perfect boat, the boat that you may search the harbours of the world for and not find."

Ou-Yang Hsui Statesman, Historian & Essayist, China (1007-1072) "Pleasure Boat Studio"

".....the real purpose of boats is to deliver people from danger rather than to provide comfort"

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