The phrase "a sailing vessel" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a type of boat or ship that is propelled by sails.
Example: "The harbor was filled with various types of boats, but the most impressive was a sailing vessel with billowing white sails."
Alternatives: "a sailboat" or "a sailing ship".
One drum on hand depicted a sailing vessel at sea; another was painted with battle ribbons.
They're heavier, and they put that weight up high, like a sailing vessel with Tony Siragusa in the crow's nest.
He had been trained as a sailor, and as a sailor he had rounded Cape Horn on a sailing vessel.
Rigging, the sails, masts, booms, yards, stays, and lines of a sailing vessel, or its cordage only.
After two months on a sailing vessel in the South Pacific, we were ready to go home.
Calder's first pieces created specifically for the outdoors were designed, the sculptor said, "to react to the wind like a sailing vessel".
A boat is conjured up by a rim and a sail; vessels and creatures seen through a telescope are held up as tiny models.
He has ridden a dhow — a traditional sailing vessel — down the Nile, and glimpsed a pride of lions from the safety of a hot-air balloon floating over Kruger National Park in Africa.
How does Tracy Jonsson feel about being at Philipsburg Manor? 3. Divide students into four groups, and assign each group a type of sailing vessel — a barque, a barquentine, a brigatine, a full-rigged ship.
Tours will also be given of the 95-year-old Waterfront Museum and Showboat Barge, a railroad barge-cum-museum; the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, a 1969 reproduction of a traditional sailing vessel commissioned by Pete Seeger as an educational boat; and the Day Peckinpaugh, a 1921 cargo carrier built for the Erie Canal.
Basecamp Spitsbergen offers several unusual excursions, including the chance to spend a night on a Dutch sailing vessel frozen into the fjord ice (basecampspitsbergen.com).
