Sentence examples for a skipper for from inspiring English sources

Pagano, a skipper for 21 years, has resurrected the most elemental: the inshore eel-casting trip.

His plan for that time was to take sailing lessons and qualify to become a skipper for Yacht Week along the Croatian coast over the summer.

Himself the son of a trawlerman, and a skipper for 30 years, Milne was a member of the Scottish Fishermen Federation delegation to the CFP quota talks in December.

You can rent a fully-equipped boat with a skipper for about a hundred dollars per person a night, a fairly expensive proposition unless you consider you're paying an experienced yachtsman to sail you up and down some of the most beautiful coastlines in the world without smacking into those aforementioned pink dolphins.

Not only does he understand that a skipper, for all the funky field placings and bowling changes he might make, is judged ultimately on big results in big series, but he appreciates that the pressures of captaincy can make or break the batsman who accepts them.

As we headed south in the direction of the Statue of Liberty, Captain Weber, a Circle Line skipper for more than 35 years, told me he had never crashed into the foundation of a bridge nor bumped into a barge, tug, ferry, fireboat, garbage scow, freight-car carrier, ocean liner, Coast Guard cutter, yacht or any of the other craft that share the waterway.

Hendo is a fantastic skipper for this club - I've said it from the first day.

Australia now need to find a new skipper for next month's T20 international in Dubai which kicks off their series against Pakistan.

Dirty Harry was an unlikely skipper for gun control legislation.

Eschewing such timeworn staples as "So tell me about yourself" and "Where do you hope to be in five years?" Theo Epstein and his cronies are employing a real-life baseball quiz designed to assess a skipper's aptitude for decision-making at game speed: two-run deficit, seventh inning, runners at first and second, nobody out, sixth-place hitter up — are you bunting?

Tony La Russa, a big-league skipper for 32 years, is on an expiring contract with the St . Louis Cardinals