If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary.
A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.
There can be only one Captain to a ship.
The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers head for a seamen's mission.
No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
He enters the port with a full sail.