Sentence examples for conventional sailing from inspiring English sources

In the shipbuilding category, there is a strong message in a depiction of a paddle-wheel steamer speedily passing conventional sailing vessels.

The HWT X-1 is a winged catamaran based on a modified conventional sailing vessel intended for use as a surveillance and sensor platform in either littoral or unprotected waters.

Not only do they use a giant wing instead of conventional sails, they also lift out of the water to skim across the surface on foils.

Another Solar Cloth Company product is the "solar sail" – a conventional sail covered with cloth panels – aimed at getting rid of the need for diesel generators on board yachts and powering the signage on petrol station forecourts.

But by using a propeller instead of a conventional sail, Blackbird is able to overcome this limit.

Steve Bailey, the company's Jersey director, said: "All passengers due to travel on the fast ferry service have been transferred to the conventional ferry sailing which operates from Portsmouth and where necessary, will be accommodated in hotels overnight".

An E-sail is significantly different from a conventional solar sail, which generates thrust from the pressure of photons hitting the sail.

The navy later replaced the lateen rigs with a more conventional square-sail frigate rig.

Assassin's Creed IV sails a more conventional tack with the white, Welsh Kenway at the helm.

In the simplest of terms, in a conventional fabrication, called broadseaming, a sail is built on a flat surface and consists of numerous panels of curved sailcloth that are joined together by seams.

The MV Beluga SkySails, the first freighter in the modern era using a kite-like sail along with its conventional engine when the winds are right, completed a transatlantic passage and the owners report that the sail cut fuel burning around 20percentt on days when conditions were right.