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 the sky is gray 

and the rain falls

my mind wonders to the sea

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... the two seem to go hand in hand

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you can't direct the wind

but you can adjust your sails

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believe me, my young friend, there is nothing

•• absolutely nothing ••

half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats

Kenneth Grahame ~ Wind in the Willows

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it's not the towering sail

but the unseen wind that moves the ship

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hoist up the sail while the gale doth last

tide and wind stay at no man's pleasure

Robert Southwell

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if a man is to be obsessed by something

I suppose a boat is as good as anything

perhaps a bit better than most

E B White

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I'm not afraid of storms

for I'm learning how to sail my ship

Louisa May Alcott

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How to be speakin' Pirate-like

• Double up on all your adjectives and you'll be bountifully bombastic with your phrasing. Pirates never speak of "a big ship", they call it a "great, grand ship!" They never say never, they say "No nay ne'er!"
• Drop all your "g"'s when you speak and you'll get words like "rowin'", "sailin'" and "fightin'". Dropping all of your "v"'s will get you words like "ne'er", "e'er" and "o'er".
• Instead of saying "I am", sailors say, "I be". Instead of saying "You are", sailors say, "You be". Instead of saying, "They are", sailors say, "They be". Ne'er speak in anythin' but the present tense!

• Ahoy: Hey!
• Avast: Stop!
• Aye: Yes
• Booty: treasure
• Buccaneer: a pirate who be answerin' to no man or blasted government.
• By the Powers!: an exclamation, uttered by Long John Silver in Treasure Island!
• Davy Jones' Locker: the bottom o' the sea, where the souls of dead men lie
• Doubloons: pieces of gold...
• Furner: a ship which be yer own, not one ye steal an' plunder.
• Gentlemen o' fortune: a slightly more positive term fer pirates!
• Grog: A pirate's favorite drink.
• Jack: a flag or a sailor
• Jolly Roger: the skull and crossbones, the pirate flag!
• Landlubber: "Land-lover," someone not used to life onboard a ship.
• Lass: A woman.
• Lily-livered: faint o' heart
• Matey: A shipmate or a friend.
• Me hearty: a friend or shipmate.
• Scallywag: A bad person. A scoundrel.
• Scurvy dog!: a fine insult!
• Shiver me timbers!: an exclamation of surprise, to be shouted most loud.
• Swaggy: a scurvy cur's ship what ye be intendin' to loot!
• Swashbucklin': fightin' and carousin' on the high seas!
• Walk the plank: this one be bloody obvious.
• Wench: a lady, although ye gents not be wantin' to use this around a lady who be stronger than ye.
• Yo-ho-ho: Pirate laughter

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