Vito Dumas quotes

“It's out there at sea that you are really yourself.”
-- Vito Dumas

Source : John Guzzwell, Vito Dumas, Joshua Slocum (1976). “Great voyages in small boats: solo circumnavigations”, John De Graff

#Sea Quotes #Boat Quotes

“The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.”

Source : "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.

“Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.88, Thomas Nelson Inc

“When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.”

“The climate crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. From not only the warming of the earth with higher global temperatures, but also from strengthening storms and expanding droughts to melting ice and rising seas, the costs of carbon pollution are already being felt by governments, corporations, taxpayers and families around the world. The climate crisis will affect everything that we love and alter the course of our future. Now, more than ever, we must come together to solve this global crisis. We must act decisively, rise to the occasion and solve this monumental challenge.”

“Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.”

“A boat can't have two captains.”

“The right woman for you wouldn't want you to change anything about your life. She wouldn't rock your boat, she'd jump right in and sail it with you.”

Source : Alice Clayton (2016). “The Cocktail Collection: Wallbanger, Rusty Nailed, and Screwdrivered”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

“Scientists who do deny their politics—who claim to be objective and unemotional about gender while living in a world where even boats and automobiles are identified by sex—are fooling both themselves and the public at large.”

Source : Anne Fausto-Sterling (1992). “Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men”, p.12, Basic Books

“My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.”

“I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.”