Sentence examples for boats gathered from inspiring English sources

A hundred boats gathered nearby.

As banners announcing Bonds's 71st home run unfurled on the light posts above center field, fireworks went off over the boats gathered in McCovey Cove.

The trade winds had just kicked in, so the sea was rough out where the boats gathered at the starting line.

He would joyously tell his wife how, on the first day of shrimp season, the lights of the many boats gathered in the predawn looked like a city afloat.

Two Coast Guard officers said they were patrolling under the bridge when they saw several police boats gathered, and they spotted the young man after they heard someone screaming for help.

The flotilla of kayaks, canoes, sailboats and paddle boats gathered near the 400ft (122m) tall Polar Pioneer drilling rig.

In Douglas Manor, teenagers who know the group of friends on the boat gathered in an impromptu vigil to pray for the safe return of both men.

But the boats were gathered on the inland side of the bay — the wrong side — anchored idly as the oil oozed in from the Gulf of Mexico.

The operation "could be and should be" the precursor to a common European border police force, Mr. Acebes told reporters in the port of Palma de Mallorca, where the patrol boats were gathered.

The centerpiece of the summerlong series of festivals and celebrations will take place on July 4 in New York Harbor, when upwards of 50,000 spectator boats will gather for OpSail 2000 (www.opsail2000.org), a parade of sail led by the 295-foot United States Coast Guard bark Eagle.

This sheltered bay is a popular anchoring spot for private yachts and motor boats, which gather in the late afternoon to enjoy the romantic sundown, accompanied on Sundays by the drummers who descend on the beach to "drum down the sunset" – it's a unique Ibiza experience, established over many years.