Sentence examples for a skipper of a from inspiring English sources

Comparing himself to a skipper of a ship in stormy seas: "The first thing he does is face the storm and guide the ship back to safety".

Nowadays the oldest member is Briggs S. Cunningham II, 93, who joined in 1928 and went on to be a skipper of the America's Cup and a race-car driver.

Dennis Conner, a skipper of three America's Cup champions, took fourth today to finish seventh over all.

In the port cities Barcelona and Les Sables-d'Olonne, France, he is recognized as a skipper of some of the most challenging racing sailboats in the world.

He became skipper of the A team at 17, the reserves at 18 and the first team by the time he was 19.

In a separate recent case, the skipper of a prawn trawler physically assaulted a government safety inspector on a fishing pier.

From 1941-45, he first served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and skipper of a subchaser, then executive officer of a destroyer escort in the Pacific.

His enthusiasm for sailing provided material for "Boca Grande" (1974), in which the skipper of a boat competing in a Nassau-Jamaica yacht race carries out a covert mission in Cuba.

Scott McDowell, the skipper of a charter fishing-boat, also claimed he had seen a shark.

For Heinz Engelhart, the skipper of a tourist ship, the hand-span rule is charming but outmoded.

"My father was an RAF pilot and my cousin the skipper of a Lancaster lost over Berlin," he adds.