Quotes about yacht (16 Quotes)




    It's no secret that Florida's West Coast is booming and likewise, the yachting business is moving at full throttle. The purchase of Florida Yacht Sales enables us to further our position as one of the country's leading yacht brokers. Ocean Yachts, Riviera and Albemarle compliment our impressive fleet of yachts.

    We are for aiding our allies by sharing some of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we are against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We are helping 107 We spent 146 billion. With that money, we bought a 2-million-dollar yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity.

    I see a kind of renewed spirit around the yacht clubs, which is a very encouraging sign. I'm also encouraged these days about the Olympics. It looks like the pure part of the sport it's nationalistic and it's a nice clean competition. So I see a lot of this young talent that we have will likely gravitate to the various Olympic classes and they'll represent us very well.


    We were out there in the Southern Ocean, feeling very insignificant in a big part of the planet, ... At any minute, another storm would sweep in. We hatched a plan Spike and I would climb up and jury-rig the fitting. As we started the climb, I told the crew that they must helm the yacht very carefully on the opposite tack, as the rigging was only holding up one side of the mast. If the helmsman made a mistake while we were up on the mast, we'd crash down over the side with the entire rig on top of us.

    You don't have to be a redneck to be a member of a redneck yacht club. It's a term that in the past has been a stigma or a stereotype, but songs like this and other various songs, even though they talk about the very things that people imagine rednecks doing or being, they're realizing that a redneck is more of a lifestyle than a person or a people.



    He is tremendous with these young people. He gets great participation. He really has the kids' respect. From a yacht club standpoint, we like to support things that are boat-related to encourage the next generation of boaters.


    For most people the whole getting dressed up thing is just a myth. You should wear whatever is comfortable. It's not like you're going to a private yacht club. I'd say the outfit of choice is shorts, a T-shirt and a hat to block the sun.

    There are a huge number of investors who would want a Premier League football club. It would be a classic trophy asset if they've already got a Rolls-Royce and a yacht - for status it doesn't get bigger.


    From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British.




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