How to wish good luck to a sailor?

Subject: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: open mike
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 10:38 AM

what expressions does on use to wish good luck to someone who is setting of on a sailing adventure? A friend just signed on for a
4 month tour of duty on a private cargo ship in the south seas...
from Hawaii to Cook islands to Line Islands.

Would "full sheets and a rolling sea" be a good wish?

"red sails in the sunset?"

I want to make a c.d. of shanties to send to him and the rest of the crew!!

Subject: RE: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: Sailor Ron
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 10:52 AM

"You lucky bugger!"

Subject: RE: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 11:19 AM

"Fair wind and a following sea."

Linn

Subject: RE: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: Gibb Sahib
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 02:57 PM

Greasy Luck

Subject: RE: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 08:10 PM

"Three sheets to the wind and a rolling sea" sounds like a recipe for sea-sickness.

There's always "Hoist up the topsheet and spanker!"

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: open mike
Date: 24 Feb 11 - 03:39 AM

the site from the ship he is sailing on has some south pacific island
language info....
Kirabati language from the Vessel's web site:
ko na mauri! greetings, ('you will be well')
uara be how? (interrogative word)
marurung good health

Subject: RE: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 24 Feb 11 - 04:45 AM

I'd have thought that "Good Luck" would suffice.

Subject: RE: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: Commander Crabbe
Date: 24 Feb 11 - 06:36 AM

Having been at sea for 23 years man and boy, I'd go with Bat Goddess.

CC

Subject: RE: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: Commander Crabbe
Date: 24 Feb 11 - 06:41 AM

The felicitation of course!

My apologies BG.

(once a sailor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Subject: RE: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 24 Feb 11 - 07:42 AM

"Beware the reefy tackle!"

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: GUEST,mary
Date: 24 Feb 11 - 09:43 AM

ggod luck,thanks for the extra

Subject: RE: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Jan 14 - 07:31 PM

Wish u fair wind and calm seas.. Bon voyage!

Subject: RE: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: olddude
Date: 10 Jan 14 - 07:58 PM

keep the dry side up and the wet side down

Subject: RE: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Jun 14 - 05:25 PM

Fair wind and following seas

Subject: RE: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: GUEST,Phil
Date: 13 Dec 15 - 05:12 PM

Old school: "Fair winds and following seas and long may your big jib draw!" (This was sort of reserved for one-way trips like retirement though.)

Subject: RE: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: GUEST,Philip Smith
Date: 05 Jan 18 - 07:21 AM

I want to find a short sailor saying to wish my niece good luck in her enlistment. Any words? Something short but sweet will do.

Subject: RE: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 05 Jan 18 - 10:55 AM

May the winds favor your course as you voyage through your tour.

Subject: RE: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: kendall
Date: 05 Jan 18 - 05:28 PM

Keep her between the buoys.

Subject: RE: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Jan 18 - 08:28 AM

Fair Winds and a following sea is traditional.

'May your course always be Full and By' is a bit more of nautical

Subject: RE: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: GUEST
Date: 14 May 18 - 12:48 PM

Keep the stick side up and the water out.

Subject: RE: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: Gibb Sahib
Date: 14 May 18 - 09:02 PM

????
Cantonese: jat1 faan4 fung1 seon6

Subject: RE: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 23 May 19 - 04:42 AM

Never noticed this post before. I have a "Pusser's Rum" mug which has a few Royal Navy traditional toasts printed on it -

Monday: Our ships at sea
Tuesday: Our men
Wednesday: Ourselves (as no one else is likely to concern themselves with our welfare)
Thursday: A bloody war and a quick promotion
Friday: A willing soul and sea room
Saturday: Sweethearts and Wives, may they never meet
Sunday: Absent friends and those at sea

But the standing toast that pleased the most was

The wind that blows, the ship that goes
And the lass that loves a sailor.

Out of interest, it is a tin mug, white enameled with a blue rim. The toasts are on the back, the Pusser's Rum Label (including the phrase "Nelson's Blood" is on the front and inside there is a string of bunting with the words -

England expects that every man will do his duty

Acquired half full of Pusser's Rum at a Lancaster Maritime festival and now one of my prize possessions :-)

Subject: RE: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 25 May 19 - 12:33 AM

Good friends, fair weather, good rum and a dry berth.

Subject: RE: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Nov 19 - 02:18 PM

My your sails be on fire at sunset!

Subject: RE: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 08 Nov 19 - 02:36 PM

"Break a yardarm" maybe
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Nov 19 - 04:27 PM

When I was away at sea the converse was:
Nice to see you back. When are you going away again!!

Subject: RE: How to wish good luck to a sailor?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 10 Nov 19 - 03:53 PM

May your anchor weigh and your stays stay!

Cheerily,
Charlie Ipcar