Mainsail to the Wind: A Book of Sailing Quotations

William Galvani

Sheridan House, Inc., 1999 - Sports & Recreation - 214 pages

The sea and those who sail upon it have often been the subject of literature, poetry, speeches, and songs. From Homer to Shakespeare, Dickens to Kurt Vonnegut, Beowulf to Ted Turner, many have been moved by the beauty, mystery, and power of the sea to express the love, awe, and fear which it inspires. For the first time, the best of those musings are collected in a single volume, containing over 1,000 quotes from writers and speakers around the world, conveniently organized into 70 categories and indexed by keyword and author.

Contents

• Americas: 1
• Anchoring: 5
• Birds: 8
• 3 6 7 8: 9
• Cape Horn: 12
• Capsize: 19
• Captains: 21
• Circumnavigation: 24
• Cold: 25
• Collision: 26
• Crew: 27
• Cruising: 28
• Danger: 32
• Death: 37
• Departure: 40
• Design: 44
• Determination: 46
• Difficulties: 47
• Discovery: 48
• Drowning: 51
• Equator: 53
• Food: 55
• Grounding: 58
• Gulf Stream: 60
• Landfall: 61
• Language: 63
• Life at Sea: 64
• Literature: 66
• Love of the Sea: 67
• Multihulls: 68
• Mutiny: 69
• Navigation: 70
• Overboard: 78
• Pacific Ocean: 80
• Passages: 82
• Phenomena: 85
• Pirates: 86
• Ports and Places: 87
• Prayer: 88
• Racing: 89
• Religion: 95
• Rigging: 96
• Sailing: 98
• Sailors: 101
• Sailors Life: 105
• Sailors Thoughts: 116
• Sails: 121
• Science: 123
• Sea: 125
• Seamanship: 139
• Seasickness: 142
• Shipbuilding: 145
• Shiphandling: 149
• Shipwreck: 154
• Singlehanding: 157
• Sinking: 159
• Sounds: 160
• Stars: 161
• Tides: 169
• Watch: 172
• Water: 173
• Waterspout: 174
• Waves: 175
• Weather: 178
• Wind: 181
• Women: 183
• Work: 186
• Yachting: 187
• Author Identification: 189
• Originator Index: 202
• Keyword Index: 206

About the author

Galvani is the director of a maritime museum in Keyport, Washington. He has edited several books on local history and contributed acticles to the Sunday New York Times and American Heritage magazine. A former naval officer, Galvani has 30 years of sailing experience.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Mainsail to the Wind: A Book of Sailing Quotations
• Author: William Galvani
• Editor: William Galvani
• Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc., 1999
• ISBN: 1574090690, 9781574090697
• Length: 214 pages
• Subjects: Sports & Recreation / Sailing