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  Robert H. "Bobby" Akers Jr. December 19, 1968 - November 28, 2018 He was "Ben" to his shipmates. We served together in...

December 25, 1946 - September 01, 2023 Be good and you will be lonesome. ―Mark Twain ···· Be lonesome and you will be free Live a lie and yo...

March 30, 1951 - January 16, 2023 Doug Badger, devoted dad, husband, friend, mentor, shipmate, and sharer of knowledge, "crossed the ba...

Crossing the Bar BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I...

When the wind will not serve, take to the oars. —Latin Proverb

It's a great thing to have a lady aboard with clean habits. It sets the man a good example. A man alone, he gets to living like a hog. —...

Patience is the ballast of the soul, that will keep it from rolling and tumbling in the greatest storms: and he, that will venture out witho...

Human experience, like the stern lights of a ship at sea, too often illuminates only the path we have passed over. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The slack sail shifts from side to side, The boat, untrimm'd, admits the tide, Borne down, adrift, at random tost, The oar breaks sho...

Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm c...

By strength of heart the sailor fights roaring seas. —William Wordsworth Get a Random Quote Here

He knows the compass, sail, and oar,  Or never launches from the shore;  Before he builds, computes the cost,  And in no proud pursui...

The woodman is superior by knowledge of his art rather than by strength ; the pilot guides the swift ship in the dark-blue sea by skill, whe...

You can no more make a sailor of a land-lubber by dressing him up in sea-toggery, and putting a commission into his hands, than you can make...

You are uneasy; you have never sailed with me before, I see. —Andrew Jackson

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. —William Arthur Ward Get a Rand...

Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempest are the school of the sailorboy. ...

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizo...

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. —Thomas Fuller Get a Random Quote Here

How little do the landsmen know Of what we sailors feel, When the waves do mount and the winds do blow! But we have hearts of steel. —Th...