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Time and tide wait for no man.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
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Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.
~ Hermann Broch
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When asked, "What news from the sea?" The fish replied, "I have a lot to say, but my mouth is full of water."
~ Armenian Proverb
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"Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk."
~ Sir Francis Chichester
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"Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear."
~ Buzzy Trent
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"There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea."
~ Joseph Conrad
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The Land-Lubbers Guide to Piracy
Historical FictionOn the sea's, the name, Captain Blackman was taboo, cursed like Davey Jones's Locker. The legendary female captain of the Drunken Monkey was feared from Panama to China, and she knew it. She takes no prisoners, no man, woman or child is spared. So w...