Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing.
A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.
The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.
Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.