As Long as It's Fun, the Epic Voyages and Extraordinary Times of Lin and Larry Pardey Quotes

“Earl said the only way to beat the system was to make enough money to get time off to do what you want to do.”
― Herb McCormick, As Long as It's Fun, the Epic Voyages and Extraordinary Times of Lin and Larry Pardey

“Beyond 40 South there’s no law. Beyond 50 South there’s no God.”
― Herb McCormick, As Long as It's Fun, the Epic Voyages and Extraordinary Times of Lin and Larry Pardey

“Keep water out of the boat. Keep yourself on the boat. Keep the boat off the rocks.”
― Herb McCormick, As Long as It's Fun, the Epic Voyages and Extraordinary Times of Lin and Larry Pardey

“But after a couple of drinks, Moitessier grew morose. “I wish I had died after my circumnavigation,” he said,”
― Herb McCormick, As Long as It's Fun, the Epic Voyages and Extraordinary Times of Lin and Larry Pardey

“Go simple, go small, go now.”
― Herb McCormick, As Long as It's Fun, the Epic Voyages and Extraordinary Times of Lin and Larry Pardey

“It didn’t play out the way we expected it to, yet it did work out in a completely different way,” said Lin. “And it sort of taught us that if we were flexible we could always earn something and figure it out. We didn’t get hurt. We didn’t starve.”
― Herb McCormick, As Long as It's Fun, the Epic Voyages and Extraordinary Times of Lin and Larry Pardey

“I could see the yachts out there and thought: ‘What am I doing here?’ If I stayed there, I knew exactly what was going to happen, because my boss was sitting at a desk across from me, and he’d been there twenty years. And his boss, at the next desk, had been there for thirty. It was all laid out before me and it wasn’t pretty.”
― Herb McCormick, As Long as It's Fun, the Epic Voyages and Extraordinary Times of Lin and Larry Pardey

“the only way to beat the system was to make enough money to get time off to do what you want to do.”
― Herb McCormick, As Long as It's Fun, the Epic Voyages and Extraordinary Times of Lin and Larry Pardey

“Acknowledge that some things in the universe are simply unknowable. Thus true “security” is unobtainable. So embrace the immediate. Live fully by living in the moment.”
― Herb McCormick, As Long as It's Fun, the Epic Voyages and Extraordinary Times of Lin and Larry Pardey