Cap'n Fatty Goodlander > Quotes

“There are three kinds of people in this world: those who can count, and those who can't.”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander

“It is not the editor I have to please, it is the reader. It is the reader who signs my pay check.”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander

“In order to be showered continuously by good luck—we have to deserve it. This”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“If life hands you lemons, make lemonade. If”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“Life is to be lived. Kiss it full on the lips. Go!   Lists:”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“repeat: I recommend you get a Monitor or a used Aries before purchasing an electric autopilot. “Boo”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“In order to do this in the most fun, convenient way possible, I realized I needed my own private kingdom, my own small country, my own tiny universe.  That’s right—I decided to buy a sailboat. This”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“My first, off-the-top-of-my-head list went something like this: Anchors, rodes, windlass Diesel engine Sails Dinghy, oars, lifejackets Batteries   But it wasn’t long before I started adding such items as: Downwind poles Storm trysail Monitor windvane Electric autopilot Dodger GPS VHF Depth meter     And, once we really got serious about circumnavigating: Paratech sea anchor Gale-rider Life raft with survival gear Jimmy Cornell’s World Cruising books Charts EPIRB SSB Outboard for dinghy MPS with sock. Anemometer Spear gun   The reason you need a list—on both paper and in your head—is because you are going to constantly come across one item while looking for another. You”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“to live while you’re alive.” That”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“The current conventional wisdom is that we are born, grow up, learn to become consumers, consume, and die. Of course, we can reject this path, and—even more audacious—chart our own course in life. I”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“non-strength and safety” item aboard a small sailboat on a big ocean with only two people aboard is their windvane.”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“This is a tiny little blue-ball-in-space we live on. We have to share. We’re all brothers. Ultimately, we’ll all succeed or fail as one big family. Greed is both small-time and short-term. Tomorrow”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“the true wealth of this planet—its fascinating, big-hearted people.  ”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“I don’t sail around the world to observe it—but to joyously participate in it. In”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“At an early age I decided I wanted to be the freest man in the universe.”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“Money isn’t everything. In fact, it is almost nothing. Often, it is an impediment to freedom. Piles of stuff mean little. I”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“Minimum scope with chain: five-to-one; with nylon line it should be seven-to-one. If you use less scope, you will drag. (Please slowly read the prior sentence again. If everyone did, boats wouldn’t be drifting around every harbor in the world and smashing into boats that aren’t drifting around because they have the correct amount of scope out.) A”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“You can’t lose if you don’t give up. You”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“Life isn’t over until it is over.”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“Life always works out. What seems like a big deal today will be just a funny story tomorrow.”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“It’ll all work out in the end. And if it hasn’t worked out yet, that’s because it is not the end.”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“decided that freedom is the right to control your own destiny, to empower yourself, to go and do and think and write and say what you want, when you want, how you want. It is also the right to pick and choose cultures and lifestyles and professions. It is the right to say no to almost anyone about almost anything. It is, first and foremost, the right to refuse the cultural blinders and self-imposed limitations of your fellow man. It”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“Sailing around the world is really all about learning—and”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“We became unabashed hedonists.”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“A word to the wise is sufficient?   Make”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“If you want to buy a cheap boat to fix up and sail around the world, you want a well-designed, fixed keel, fiberglass production monohull of 28 to 46 feet.   Target”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“I’m a citizen of the world, aren’t I?  I deserve to eat, don’t I? Who has the right to draw an arbitrary line in the sand and tell me what I can and cannot do on one side of the line or the other—oh, the big ugly guy with the gun? That’s what we call civilization? I’d call myself an anarchist if it didn’t sound so organized. Seriously,”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“Laughter is, indeed, the only sane response to the world we live in.”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“To Be the Freest Man in the Universe. I”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail

“If you give stuff away, you can, and will, receive stuff in return. Maybe not right away or in the same coin. But for every action, there is a reaction. If”
― Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, Buy, Outfit, and Sail