Sentence examples for control of a boat from inspiring English sources

Sailing, she said, tackles these issues head on by getting the teenagers off the therapy couch and in control of a boat.

A real time kinematic (RTK), GPS-based, track-keeping control of a small boat is discussed in this paper.

B1 Crash Probe Focuses on Pilot The investigation of a Staten Island Ferry crash that killed 10 people and injured scores more focused on a pilot who lost control of the boat as it swerved off course and slammed full speed into a pier that tore open its starboard flank and raked passengers like rag dolls.

It was very close to here that a Honduran fisherman lost control of his boat in 2012, drifting for 14 months, before miraculously turning up 6,500 miles away in the Marshall Islands.

A centre rope gives you full control of the boat (ie it can't drift out front or stern) provided there is no wind or current).

The captain tried to get control of the boat, the official said, but it slammed into a concrete maintenance pier about 400 feet from the nearest ferry slip.

In a telephone interview, Captain Hammarstedt said the group took control of the boat, the Varadero I, at the urging of the Guatemalan authorities but that "the tables turned," with the Guatemalans dispatching a gunboat to arrest Captain Watson.

A man has been rescued from the water after losing control of his boat off the coast of Perth, Australia.

On August 30, Anderson and his men attacked a steamboat on the Missouri River, killing the captain and gaining control of the boat.

JERUSALEM — Nineteen foreign activists of the pro-Palestinian Free Gaza Movement were being held in Israel awaiting deportation on Thursday, two days after the Israeli Navy seized control of their boat off Gaza.

Nineteen foreign activists of the pro-Palestinian Free Gaza Movement were being held in Israel on Thursday awaiting deportation, two days after the Israeli Navy seized control of their boat off Gaza.