TRIBUNNEWS.COM - World Sailor Day atau Hari Pelaut Sedunia akan diperingati pada hari Rabu, 25 Juni 2025.

Hari Pelaut Sedunia merupakan peringatan untuk menghormati dan mengapresiasi peran penting para pelaut dalam perdagangan global dan perekonomian dunia.

Hari Pelaut Sedunia ditetapkan oleh International Maritime Organization (IMO) pada tahun 2010, sebagai bagian dari Konvensi Manila (Manila Amendments to the STCW Convention).

Hari Pelaut Sedunia merupakan bentuk penghargaan global terhadap pelaut yang bekerja keras di balik layar dalam memastikan barang dan logistik dunia tetap bergerak, sekaligus menyoroti perlunya perlindungan atas hak-hak mereka, dikutip dari laman PBB.

Kamu dapat memeriahkan Hari Pelaut Sedunia 2025 dengan mengunggah gambar di Instagram, WhatsApp, atau sosmed lainnya dan menambahkan caption yang menarik dengan kata-kata di bawah ini, dikutip dari Mandurah Yacht Academy dan The Types Etco.

Kata-kata Hari Pelaut Sedunia 25 Juni 2025

1. “Sailing is the closest I can get to nature—it’s adrenaline mixed with serenity.”
   — Ellen MacArthur, early 2000s 
2. “Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.”
   — Joseph Conrad, 1904 (dari “Nostromo”)
3. “There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.”
   — Thomas Gibbons, 1760s 
4. “Give me a fast ship, for I intend to go in harm’s way.”
   — John Paul Jones, 1778
5. “The sea finds out everything you did wrong.”
   — Francis Stokes, 1998 (Buku “Seaworthy: Essential Lessons dari Boat U”)
6. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
   — John A. Shedd, 1928 (dari “Salt dari My Attic”)
7. “To reach a port we must set sail – Sail, not tie at anchor – Sail, not drift.”
   — Franklin D. Roosevelt, circa 1930s
8. “He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.”
   — Hammond Innes, 1949 (dari “The Wreck of the Mary Deare”)
9. “There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.”
   — Joseph Conrad, 1900 (dari “Lord Jim”)
10. “The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator.”
    — Edmund Gibbon, 1788
11. “It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.”
    — George William Curtis, 1854 (dari koleksi esai “The Howadji in Syria”)
12. “I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky…”
    — John Masefield, 1902 (dari puisi “Sea Fever”)
13. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
    — William Arthur Ward, 1960s (American motivational writer)
14. “Sailing – The fine art of slowly going nowhere at great expense while being cold, wet and miserable.”
    — Irving Johnson, c. 1950s
15. “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”
    — Jacques-Yves Cousteau, 1970s
16. “The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.”
    — Joshua Slocum, 1900 (dari “Sailing Alone Around the World”)
17. “The art of the sailor is to leave nothing to chance.”
    — Annie Van De Wiele, 1950s
18. “To young men contemplating a voyage, I would say go.”
    — Joshua Slocum, 1900 (dari “Sailing Alone Around the World”)
19. “The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
    — Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), 1934 (dari “Seven Gothic Tales”)
20. “The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.”
    — Ernest Hemingway, 1952 (dari “The Old Man and the Sea”)
21. “There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
    — Kenneth Grahame, 1908 (dari “The Wind in the Willows”)
22. “The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.”
    — John Rousmaniere, 1983 (dari “The Annapolis Book of Seamanship”)
23. “You haven’t lived until you’ve sailed.”
    — David Sedaris, early 2000s (Anecdotal)
24. “Twenty years dari now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away dari the safe harbor…”
    — Often attributed to Mark Twain, though likely paraphrased; earliest version appears around the 1990s.
25. “Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.”
    — Brooks Atkinson, 1960s
26. “Sailors, with their built-in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.”
    — Nicholas Monsarrat, 1951 (dari “The Cruel Sea”)
27. “There is no better tool or equipment you can have onboard than a well-trained crew.”
    — Larry Pardey, 1980s
28. “It’s out there at sea that you are really yourself.”
    — Vito Dumas, 1940s
29. “You can’t control the wind but you can adjust your sails.”
    — Jackson Brown Jr., 1990s (dari “Life’s Little Instruction Book”)
30. “Sailing is a form of art and freedom, not just movement across water.”
    — Unknown
31. “The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.”
    — Carl Sandburg, 1916 (dari “Chicago Poems”)
32. “The sea drives truth into a man like salt.”
    — Hilaire Belloc, 1920s
33. “The wind is free, but the sails are not.”
    — Unknown, Traditional Nautical Proverb
34. “Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water.”
    — George Matthew Adams, 1920s
35. “At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.”
    — Robin Lee Graham, 1972 (dari “Dove”)
36. “A bad day sailing is 100 times better than a good day at work.”
    — Anonymous, Contemporary boating culture
37. “To be successful at sea we must keep things simple.”
    — Pete Goss, 1998  
38. “Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.”
    — Jean-Paul Sartre, 1950s
39. “Sailing a boat is like riding a horse. You must learn to feel the sea.”
    — Richard Henry Dana Jr., 1840 (dari “Two Years Before the Mast”)
40. “We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.”
    — Aristotle Onassis, 1950s 
41. “There are three sorts of people: those who are alive, those who are dead, and those who are at sea.”
    — Pepatah Bahari Kuno, asal usulnya dapat ditelusuri kembali ke Herodotus, sekitar abad ke-5 SM
42. “A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind.”
    — Webb Chiles, 1970s
43. “He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.”
    — Thomas Fuller, 1732 (dari “Gnomologia”)
44. “When the wind of change blows, some build walls, others build windmills.”
    — Peribahasa Cina, Kuno, sering diadaptasi dalam konteks bahari
45. “Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
    — Omar N. Bradley, pertengahan abad ke-20 (jenderal Amerika pada Perang Dunia II; kutipan ini secara metaforis digunakan oleh para pelaut)
46. “Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.”
    — Peribahasa Afrika, Tradisional
47. “The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.”
    — Robert Wyland, 1990-an (Seniman kehidupan laut dan konservasionis)
48. “Sailors, with their built-in sense of order, service, and discipline…”
    — Nicholas Monsarrat, 1951 (dari “The Cruel Sea”)
49. “There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.”
    — Mark Twain, 1880-an (Diparafrasekan dari tulisan perjalanannya)
50. “Sailing takes me away to where I’ve always heard it could be.”
    — Christopher Cross, 1979 (dari lagu “Sailing”)
51. “There is but one way to be safe at sea: to be in the right.”
    — John Masefield, awal 1900-an (penyair pemenang penghargaan Inggris dan mantan pelaut)
52. “We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”
    — Dolly Parton, 1990-an (Sering dikutip; asal usulnya terkadang juga dikaitkan dengan pembicara motivasi lainnya)
53. “Without the ocean there is no life, without sailing there is no adventure.”
    — Tidak diketahui, Pepatah kontemporer
54. “Sailing is a contemplative art. It teaches patience and judgment.”
    — Sterling Hayden, 1963 (dari buku “Wanderer”)
55. “He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.”
    — William Golding, 1950-an (novelis Inggris, diparafrasekan dari trilogi lautnya)
56. “If you can’t repair it, maybe it shouldn’t be on board.”
    — Lin Pardey, 1980-an (Pelaut terkenal dan minimalis dalam berlayar)
57. “It’s not that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.”
    — Sir Francis Drake, abad ke-16
58. “One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
    — André Gide, 1920-an (penulis Prancis dan peraih Nobel)
59. “Being on a sailboat is like being in a vacuum of nature’s forces—you are completely at their mercy.”
    — Tristan Jones, 1970-an (Pelaut dan penulis petualangan)
60. “I had to go. A spirit deep within me called to the sea.”
    — Tania Aebi, 1989 (dari “Maiden Voyage”, wanita Amerika pertama yang berlayar sendiri mengelilingi dunia)
61. “Sailing is a way to feel the infinite, to become one with the sea and sky.”
    — Tidak diketahui, Pepatah kontemporer
62. “Sailing means being completely in the moment—because the sea doesn’t allow anything less.”
    — Jonathan Raban, 1980an (dari “Coasting”, memoar perjalanan solo keliling Inggris)
63. “The wind is not to be blamed for a sailor’s misfortune.”
    — Peribahasa Denmark Kuno, Tradisional
64. “There is always more sea than land.”
    — Peribahasa, Kearifan Tradisional Bahari
65. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.”
    — Herman Melville, 1851 (dari “Moby-Dick”)
66. “Sometimes in the waves of change, we find our true direction.”
    — Tidak diketahui, Kutipan motivasi modern yang sering digunakan dalam konteks berlayar
67. “My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea.”
    — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, tahun 1870-an (dari puisi “Rahasia Laut”)
68. “He that would learn to pray, let him go to sea.”
    — George Herbert, 1633 (dari “Jacula Prudentum”)
69. “The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.”
    — Henry David Thoreau, 1850s (dari “Cape Cod”)
70. “The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.”
    — Joseph Conrad, 1897 (dari “The Mirror of the Sea”)
71. “He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass.”
    — Leonardo da Vinci
72. “To sail is to feel the rhythm of the earth.”
    — Anonymous
73. “Sailing is not a matter of life and death—it’s more important than that.”
    — Unknown
74. “Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.”
    — Fitzhugh Dodson, 1970-an (psikolog dan penulis Amerika)
75. “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
    — Willa Cather, 1915 (dari “The Song of the Lark”)
76. “We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.”
    — Jimmy Carter, 1976 (perwira Angkatan Laut AS dan Presiden ke-39)
77. “A small craft in a big ocean always makes you feel vulnerable, but also incredibly free.”
    — Dame Naomi James, 1978 (Wanita pertama yang berlayar sendirian mengelilingi Tanjung Horn)
78. “The anchor holds in spite of the storm.”
    — Ray Boltz, 1995 (dari lagu gospel “The Anchor Holds”)
79. “Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and the water.”
    — George Matthew Adams, 1920s
80. “A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind.”
    — Leon Tec, 1960-an (psikiater dan penulis Polandia-Amerika)
81. “There’s no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.”
    — Alfred Wainwright, 1973 (Meskipun sering dikutip oleh para pelaut, aslinya dari seorang penjelajah Inggris dan penulis buku panduan)
82. “A sailing ship is a living being with a soul.”
    — Kapten Irving Johnson, tahun 1950-an (Terkenal karena petualangan berlayar dan film pelatihannya)
83. “If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”
    — Seneca, c. 50 M (filsuf dan negarawan Romawi)
84. “The ocean is everything I want to be. Beautiful, mysterious, wild, and free.”
    — Unknown
85. “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
    — Louisa May Alcott, 1869 (dari “Little Women”)
86. “Sailing is the fine art of slowly going nowhere at great expense.”
    — Bruce Bingham, 1970-an (Arsitek kelautan dan penulis; sering dikutip oleh pelaut)
87. “The goal of sailing is not speed, but direction.”
    — Anonymous
88. “A man is never lost at sea.”
    — Ernest Shackleton, awal 1900-an (Penjelajah Antartika yang terkenal)
89. “There’s nothing more liberating than sailing off the mooring and letting the sea take you.”
    — Unknown
90. “Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made.”
    — Robert N. Rose, awal tahun 1900-an (Sering dikutip dalam koleksi literatur dan puisi angkatan laut)
91. “There is no greater feeling of freedom than sailing a boat you’ve built with your own hands.”
    — Richard B. Henderson, 1970-an (Penulis “Singlehanded Sailing”)
92. “To reach a port, we must set sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.”
    — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933
93. “Sailing is the sport of gods and men who dream.”
    — Anonymous
94. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
    — William Arthur Ward, 1960s
95. “There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.”
    — Joseph Conrad, 1906 (dari “The Mirror of the Sea”)
96. “Out of sight of land, the sailor feels a sense of mystery and awe.”
    — John F. Kennedy, 1962
97. “A journey by sea is a meditation in motion.”
    — Paul Theroux, 1980s
98. “Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that few sports afford.”
    — George Matthew Adams, 1920s
99. “Sail away dari the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    — Sering dikaitkan dengan Mark Twain, tetapi mungkin tidak dapat dibuktikan kebenarannya; dipopulerkan sekitar tahun 1990-an
100. “A ship in harbor is safe—but that is not what ships are built for.”
     — John A. Shedd, 1928 *(dari “Salt dari My Attic”)

(Yunita Rahmayanti)