Sentence examples for attempt to sail from inspiring English sources

The earliest surviving terrestrial globe was made in Nürnberg in 1492 by Martin Behaim, who almost undoubtedly influenced Christopher Columbus to attempt to sail west to the Orient.

(AP) — A French fishing vessel rescued a California teenager on Saturday from her crippled sailboat in the turbulent southern Indian Ocean, bringing relief to her family but ending her attempt to sail around the world by herself.

Between Cup regattas, he signed on with the British sailor Robin Knox-Johnston to compete in the Jules Verne Challenge, an attempt to sail around the world in less than 80 days.

With one fateful exception: a period, shortly after he returned from a failed attempt to sail around the world, when he found himself "in the heart and deeps of me, desirous of alcohol".

Now Franklin experts will have to debate whether at least some of the dying sailors instead mustered incredible strength, fighting off hunger, disease and frostbite, in a desperate attempt to sail home.

It was Day 658 of the Mars Ocean Odyssey, his attempt to sail his seventy-foot schooner, the Anne, non-stop for a thousand days, along the way replicating the likely physical, psychological, and spiritual experiences of astronauts on a round trip to Mars.

Since then she has attempted to sail on four days each week.

Severe damage to his ship prevented him from attempting to sail to the Pole, as he had originally intended.

Gale or near-gale conditions continued through Sunday and Monday, and between occasional hair-raising attempts to sail they mostly lay to the drogue.

He set sail with one ship in 1581 on an Arctic expedition that ended when the ship was wrecked in Pechora Bay after unsuccessfully attempting to sail through the Yugorski Straits into the Kara Sea.

By way of "reconciliation for the William Wallace thing", Mark McGowan set out from his home in Peckham, south London, attempting to "sail" 400 miles to Glasgow, in a shopping trolley.