Zitat des Tages über Segeln / Sailing:
I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.
My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, really. I wouldn't say it's a career in fashion. The range is all day-to-day stuff that I'd put on and use myself.
I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.
Sailing is the closest I can get to nature - it's adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks.
As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.
The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
The green appeal of solar sailing - traveling by light, once chemical propellants have done their dirty job of orbital insertion - ought to be powerful.
They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best.
Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.
What I love about acting is that you are exposed to so many different things. Horse-riding, sailing, travelling to amazing places.
I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.
Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when I'm on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.
Sailing is a completely new sport for me and I wasn't sure what to expect but I've definitely got the bug.
I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead of just going with the wind.
The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.
It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.
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.
I deferred my third-year studies from university to go full time sailing to try and qualify for the 2012 London Olympics, which I did. I tried to go back to the university, but having won the silver medal, I just haven't been able to get back. And now I'm not sure if I ever will.
Even though I grew up surfing and sailing in Southern California, I was born horse crazy.
I wouldn't say I'm that social... I'm either sailing my boat by myself or living in some small place.
Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.
I've been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, 'I know how to do this; you don't have to come with me anymore.'
The fact is, an America's Cup team is more than a sailing team. It's anywhere from sort of 80 to upward of 100 people; of designers, engineers, boat builders, an incredible group of people, and there are a lot of nationalities in New Zealand's team.
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.
The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.
I could imagine that boats sailing in harbors will only use electric engines. And then once they are out in the water they will use diesel.
If, by chance, you were to meet me at the Casablanca airport or on a boat sailing from Tangiers, you would think me self-confident, but I am not. Even now, at my age, I am frightened when crossing borders because I am afraid of failing to understand strangers.
I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.
I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.
Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.
I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on the sea and I grew up sailing - I love sailing - and the presence of the sea gives the air and the light a very special quality that I absolutely adore.
We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.
Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.