Quotes about Navigation
After sailing slowly for many days, we arrived off Cnidus. When the wind impeded us, we sailed to the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone.
— Acts 27:7
After we had moved along the coast with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near the town of Lasea.
— Acts 27:8
When a gentle south wind began to blow, they thought they had their opportunity. So they weighed anchor and sailed along, hugging the coast of Crete.
— Acts 27:13
Unable to head into the wind, the ship was caught up. So we gave way and let ourselves be driven along.
— Acts 27:15
We were tossed so violently that the next day the men began to jettison the cargo.
— Acts 27:18
When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the great storm continued to batter us, we abandoned all hope of being saved.
— Acts 27:20
However, we must run aground on some island.”
— Acts 27:26
On the fourteenth night we were still being driven across the Adriatic Sea. About midnight the sailors sensed they were approaching land.
— Acts 27:27
They took soundings and found that the water was twenty fathoms deep. Going a little farther, they took another set of soundings that read fifteen fathoms.
— Acts 27:28
Fearing that we would run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daybreak.
— Acts 27:29
When daylight came, they did not recognize the land, but they sighted a bay with a sandy beach, where they decided to run the ship aground if they could.
— Acts 27:39
After three months we set sail in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered in the island. It had the Twin Brothers as a figurehead.
— Acts 28:11