An old Danish proverb:
“Let another's shipwreck be your sea-mark"
A sailing resource for friends and students of sailing
The first School of Navigation was thought to have been formed in 1438.
The first recorded use of a magnetic navigation compass was in 1117.
The Chinese developed a magnetic compass in 483 AD.
Joseph Conrad said:
"A yacht is not a slave. You must take her easy in a seaway, you must never forget that you owe her the fullest share of your thought, of your skill, of your self-love. If you remember that obligation, naturally and without effort, as if it were an instinctive feeling of your inner life, she will sail, stay, run for you as long as she is able, or like a sea-bird going to rest upon the angry waves, she will lay out the heaviest gale that every made you doubt living long enough to see another sunrise."