From Mark Twain

[DaveRolaves]

Twenty Years from now

You will be disappointed

By the things you didn't do

than by the ones you did do

so - throw off the bowlines

Sail away from the safe harbour

Catch the trade winds in your sails

Explore

Dream and discover.

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Sounds good what do you think?

[Betty1]

I need that in a frame on the boat

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[SteveO]

Twenty years from now, I will probably be dead.

 

[PastorsDayOff]

Working on it. Bought the sailboat; now plotting the course ready to untie the mooring lines. A few more circuits of the Broads, then we are off.

[Lulu]

Exactly why we bought our boat last autumn instead of waiting to retire. The frustration is work gets in the way so we cant just drop everything and go up there when the weather is nice! 

[MauriceMynah]

9 hours ago, DaveRolaves said:

Twenty Years from now

You will be disappointed

By the things you didn't do

than by the ones you did do

so - throw off the bowlines

Sail away from the safe harbour

Catch the trade winds in your sails

Explore

Dream and discover.

.............................................................................................................................

Sounds good what do you think?

I think he needed a diesel engine.

[grendel]

13 minutes ago, MauriceMynah said:

I think he needed a diesel engine.

or a stern wheeler

[ChrisB]

I think the words are a little grand for the 100+ km of Norfolk Broads. I think you may search in vain for "The Trades" to fill your sails.

[TheQ]

Well, a common phenomenon on a warm day like today is the sea breeze which sets in from the North East  / East, betwen 12:00 and 14:00.

 

So....

Twenty Years from now

You will be disappointed

By the things you didn't do

than by the ones you did do

so - throw off the bowlines

Sail away from the safe mooring

Catch the sea breeze in your sails

Explore

Dream and discover.

[Vaughan]

This may be something you all knew, but Mark Twain took his name from the Mississippi river paddle steamers, which had to navigate the shifting sandbanks in the river by using a hand lead line up in the bows, especially when approaching the bank to come into a town mooring.

The call from the bows "By the mark, twain!" meant there were two fathoms of water - about what you could expect in the Mississippi. Any less and you were standing into danger.

[TheQ]

So for a broads boat you need someone on the front swinging the lead, shouting " By the Mark Half" (3ft).

Samuel Langhorne Clemens might have been at home on the top of Southern Comfort...