This collection of boat captions for Instagram along with selected quotes will really… float your boat!
Best Boat Instagram Captions
If you're looking for captions for boat pictures, or want quotes with a nautical theme, look no further!
We've put together a huge selection of the best, most inspirational and funny boat quotes from around the world, perfect for sharing on Instagram.
Feel free to use these captions and boat quotes for Instagram – but there's no pier pressure. Just engage cruise mode and enjoy!
I like big boats and I cannot lie
Life is better on the water
Do not put each foot in a different boat
Making waves
I want to sail away into forever
Never enough vitamin sea puns to last me through the summer
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You can’t buy happiness. But you can buy a boat and that’s pretty much the same thing
Forever in need of some vitamin sea
Staying hydrated by always being on the sea
Favored toys, such as a stuffed animal
I’m sorry, but this boat is knot for sail
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Good vibes happen on the tides
Having a really good time with my besties
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Born to be nautical
I'm shipfaced
Back that raft up
Find your flow, and row, row, row
Sailing with the Big Buoys
Decided to let my dreams set sail
Whoever said money can’t buy happiness clearly hasn’t been on a cruise
Home is where the anchor drops
I’m sorry for what I said while docking the boat
Always yachts of fun with this crew
Our life is like a boat that can float. Row and Go! Some Blink and Sink!!
Worry less, paddle more
Let your dreams set sail
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Feeling a bit nautical
Raising the sails
Batten down the hatches!
Ship shape and Bristol fashion
A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor
All hands on deck!
Thar she blows!
Weekend plans
Life is better on the boat
Be an anchor in a world of waves
Happy as a clam
Getting salty
My happy place
Heave ho
Living life one cruise at a time
Seas the day
Boat hair, don’t care
A rising tide lifts all boats
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Paradise found
You call it a jet ski. I call it a boater-cycle
Keeping it reel
Friends don’t let friends cruise alone
Thanks for making sure we don’t sink
You keep me from getting lost at sea
Partying like a lob-star
A great voyage is a journey that never ends
My milkshake brings all the buoys to the yard
Cruise calories don’t count
Great Boat Phrases To Use With Your Photos
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Buoys and their toys
Gone fishin’
Oh buoy, we’re not ready for summer to be over, yet
A boatload of fun!
Some would say that I’m an aqua holic
I love you a yacht
I’m lost at sea don’t bother me
Having yachts of fun with you
Giving in to the peer pressure
This summer will knot be too bad if it means I can spend all of my time on the water
Let’s get naughty
Where there’s a wave, there’s away
I’m walking on sunshine, and don’t it feel good Katrina & The Waves, Walking On Sunshine
Boat Puns And Sayings
These funny boat captions will look great with your epic photos of ships and the sea!
Felt cute. Might go seas the day.
Things are going quite swell
Remember when you were my boat, and I was your sea?
Cruising stole my heart
Feelin’ pretty peachy
Whatever floats your boat
You can’t be crabby when you’re on a boat
Some grow roots, but I put down anchors far into the sea
You, me, and the sea
Until further notice, assume that summer isn’t oh-fish-ially over
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Water you waiting for?
The water you looking at?
I got 99 problems, but the beach ain't one
Not salty about this situation
Escaping all that ordinary that’s back on shore
Thermometer and other health needs
Literally sailing into the sunset
Sunsets are always better on a cruise
You’re a catch
It’s going to be a long time with no sea
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The tans will fade, but the memories will last forever
Let the sea set you free
Take time to coast
Summertime spritz on the sea
Messy buns and boat days
Sunshine on my mind
Breathe in the salty air
Hooked on that summer feeling
Ahoy, matey
Long weekends and living the boat life
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This weekend was knot too bad
Mermaid to be in the sea
Let’s just cruise and see where the waves go
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Cruising does the soul good
Shopping is fun and all, but this is my favorite kind of sail
Ocean air, salty hair
The water may be salt, but this is the sweetest life
Summer is never oh-fish-ially over
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It’s about time we all made it out on the water
Floating into the weekend with my rose close by
There’s nothing quite like the sound of your sails flapping in the wind and the waves underneath you
The ocean is everything I want to be beautiful, mysterious, wild, and free
Yachts of fun
Just a fish out of water
Let’s sail away into forever
I don’t need therapy, I just need my boat
Love you a yacht
A bad day at sea is still better than a good day at work
Best Boat Quotes
If there is no more after one more. Then you are on a boat with no oar, offshore.
– Zulqar
If the water is calm, the boat is also calm! If your thoughts are calm, your life is also calm!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
I live for taking the sea
– Nic Route
Rowing harder doesn’t help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.
– Kenichi Ohmae
Every boat needs a captain. Even when it’s empty.
– Giovannie de Sadeleer
I thought instead of a good rule for survival on Wall Street: Never agree to anything proposed on someone else’s boat or you’ll regret it the morning.
– Michael Lewis
We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Boat Life Quotes
If you are the only one who’s rowing in the boat, you have no right to complain about which way you are heading!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Sailing takes me away to where I’ve always heard it could be.
– Christopher Cross
Peace is not found in a calmer storm, It’s found in a better boat.
– Travis Meadows
When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
A boat is nothing without water and a man without his dreams!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage.
– Alanis Morissette
A ship in a harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.
– John Augustus Shedd
We must row in whatever boat we find ourselves in.
– Christie Watson
Quotes About Boats
If you are a boat that wants to sail in windy weather, you must be more stubborn than the waves!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Never mind who owns the boat. Pull for the shore.
– Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
See the line where the sky meets the sea? It calls me. And no one knows, how far it goes.
– Moana
Shells sink, dreams float. Life’s good on our boat.
– Jimmy Buffett, Delaney Talks To Statues
The ocean has always been a salve to my soul…the best thing for a cut or abrasion was to go swimming in saltwater. Later down the road of life, I made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.
– Jimmy Buffett
Baby, let’s cruise away from here
– Smokey Robinson
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Shells sink, dreams float, life’s good on our boat.
– Jimmy Buffet
Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.
– Rumi
For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage.
– Alanis Morissette
When you get on the boat that’s saving you, don’t pull up the ladder behind you.
– Adrienne Clarkson
What’s around the river bend. Waiting just around the river bend
– Pocahontas
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Boat is nothing without water and man without his dreams!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.
– Rumi
If you can’t repair it, maybe it shouldn’t be on board.
– Lin and Larry Pardey
Yer advice is always as welcome as water in a boat.
– Jo Noelle
A boat without a captain cannot remain long on the surface!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Quotes to do with Boats
If the wind in my sail on the sea stays behind me. One day I’ll know, if I go there’s just no telling how far I’ll go.
– Moana
In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.
– Ernest Hemingway
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Twenty years from 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 from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
I’m on a boat. Everybody look at me, ’cause I’m sailing on a boat.
– The Lonely Island, I’m On A Boat
What’s around the river bend. Waiting just around the river bend.
– Pocahontas
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
– Anna Freud
I’m walking on sunshine, and don’t it feel good.
– Katrina & The Waves
Come sail away with me
– Styx
Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.
– Brooks Atkinson
It’s out there at sea that you are really yourself.
– Vito Dumas
Always take the sea
– Nic Route
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Just as a boat in the sea may face calm as well as turbulent waters, in the same way, we all face calm as well as difficult situations in life.
– Avijeet Das
It isn’t that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.
– Sir Francis Drake
Boat is nothing without water and man without his dreams!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.
– Van Morrison
The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.
– Ernest Hemingway
The sea finds out everything you did wrong.
– Francis Stokes
I grew to judge every purchase by how many bronze screws I could buy for the boat if I didn’t spend on this or made do without that.
– Lin Pardey
Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. and Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat and isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.
– Kamand Kojouri
The boat is safer anchored at the port, but that’s not the aim of boats.
The lovely thing about cruising is that planning usually turns out to be of little use.
– Dom Degnon
You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.
– Kelli Jae Baeli
I’m on a beat everybody look at me, ’cause I’m sailing on a boat
– The Lonely Island
See the line where the sky meets the sea? It calls me and no one knows, how far it goes
– How Far I’ll Go from Moana
Under the sea
– The Little Mermaid
I’ve always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat, and I built a boat.
– Will Ferrell
Boating Captions and Quotes
Boating is a great way to relax and enjoy the outdoors, while also getting some exercise. What's more, boats can provide a fun mode of transportation for exploring new waterways and sailing to far-off destinations.
Whether you're an experienced boater or just getting started, we hope that these funny boat captions will help you share your love of boats with the world. Thanks for reading and happy boating!
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