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Ships are like children: they need individual attention.

We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat, and I built a boat.

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.

The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way.

I like to sail. My son Caden and I are avid sailors.

As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.

The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.