Royal Norwegian Yacht Club - Kongelig Norsk Seilforening - KNS is Norway's largest yachting club, and an active organizer of sail races. Among the 4000 members you will find a large junior group, hundreds of ocean racers and several of the best regatta sailors in Norway.
The Colin Archer Club (SSCA) - The club intends to promote the interest of traditionally built vessels, restoration or construction of new boats built in traditional materials and using original designs. Sailing and using the boats is of great importance.
Norwegian Cruising Guide - Site provides an introduction to the Norwegian Cruising Guide, and make corrections and updates available to users of the book, which describes 500 harbours along the entire Norwegian coast, and Spitsbergen.
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Boating and Sailing Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Boating and Sailing
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Boating and Sailing A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Boating and Sailing
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Boating and Sailing "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Boating and Sailing
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Boating and Sailing To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Boating and Sailing
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Boating and Sailing Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Boating and Sailing
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Boating and Sailing If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Boating and Sailing
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Boating and Sailing Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Boating and Sailing
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Boating and Sailing The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Boating and Sailing
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Boating and Sailing Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Boating and Sailing
Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Boating and Sailing "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Boating and Sailing
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Boating and Sailing There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Boating and Sailing
