Once Is Enough Quotes

“WHEN daylight came to the forecabin, and percolated dimly through the sails covering the holes in the deck on to the dank jumble that lay higgledy-piggledy throughout the ship, we set about breakfast.”
― Miles Smeeton, Once Is Enough: A Classic Non-Fiction Adventure of Sailing, Survival, and Wanderlust

“I have heard it said that there are no such things as exceptional waves, but I believe that it might also be said about the sea as about the weather, that the only thing constant about it is its inconstancy.”
― Miles Smeeton, Once Is Enough: A Classic Non-Fiction Adventure of Sailing, Survival, and Wanderlust

“It was always just a question of time, and time meant so much to us, who were so anxious to get away, and so little to them.”
― Miles Smeeton, Once Is Enough: A Classic Non-Fiction Adventure of Sailing, Survival, and Wanderlust