Learn to sail a sailboat.
When does your steamer sail?
We discerned a sail on the horizon.
That boat has a new sail.
Lower the sail or the boat will be knocked down.
The ship is under sail, making toward the land.
They go for a sail down the Thames .
The ship was given the all-clear to sail again.
At the top of the sail is a short SPAR called the gaff, which allows the sail to extend back along a fourth side, gaining size over a triangular sail of the same height.
This sail plan totals about 1047 square meters and there will be another multi-purpose sail of 400 square meters for downwind sailing.
We were travelling in bad weather from the time we started to sail.
A ketch therefore USES three primary sails: the mainsail and head sail, as on a sloop, plus the mizzen sail aft.
The weather broke after two days, and they were able to sail for home.
It looks pretty cool sitting next to the snorkel in the sail cap.
However, I do wonder why anyone would sail through these areas.
We were in the sail locker, screaming on our knees over the sails.
Bulk ships are the mirror image of container ships: they sail for China fully laden and return nearly empty.
Having neither sail oar or rudder and the least cap full of wind would have overset all my navigation.
The halyard typically rises from the head of the sail to a block at the head of the mast and back down to deck level, from where it is pulled up to raise the sail.
Night watch also has to adjust the sail (or the SPAR) if winds change direction or strength.
The surest way is to set sail in one direction and not stop until you're home again.
Well, he's dead now, he is - as dead as bilge; and who's to sail this ship, I don't see.
The old man leaned the mast with its wrapped sail against the wall and the boy put the box and the other gear beside it.
Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory even once investigated sending a solar sail to rendezvous and ride along with Halley's Comet during its pass in 1986.
a long narrow shallow-draft boat with a flat bottom and a triangular sail; formerly used along the N Atlantic coast of the US.
While a ketch offers these advantages to cruisers, they may also be more expensive because of the added mast and sail.
The primary advantages of a ketch are that each of the sails is usually somewhat smaller than on a sloop of equivalent size, making sail handling easier.
The ship is bought and fitted. She lies at anchor, ready for sea. You never imagined a sweeter schooner--a child might sail her--two hundred tons; name, HISPANIOLA.
She says the boat would be shaped like a capsule, powered by a small nuclear engine, and though there would be no sail, it would have a mast to hold a camera.
With a canal across Central America, ships could sail directly from ocean to ocean. They would not have to make the long, costly voyage around the southern end of South America.
A large ship, with three masts, lay becalmed on the water, with only one sail set; for not a breeze stiffed, and the sailors sat idle on deck or amongst the rigging.
But the faithful servant, who had witnessed the whole thing, secretly lowered a small boat from the ship and set out in it, following his master and letting the traitors sail away.
Part of the little raft's belongings consisted of an old sail, and this they spread over a nook in the bushes for a tent to shelter their provisions; but they themselves would sleep in the open air in good weather, as became outlaws.
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