P. J. O'Rourke Quotes About Sailing
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There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.
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The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborgini to the Gran Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
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I don't think I'll ever be a real boat reporter. My Rolex isn't big enough.
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This is the most elaborate and luxurious method of convincing others that you can cook. Take everybody out on your yacht until they're green in the face. Then you can rave for weeks about your sauce marinara and no one will gainsay you.
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In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic.
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If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an hour, the same speed at which a bond lawyer runs around the Cental Park Reservoir.
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A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.
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