Sentence examples for deep keel from inspiring English sources

"They knew I needed someone with a deep keel in the water," Ross said.

"Like the Star, a cup boat has a great big main, a small jib and a deep keel with a bulb.

Nature still promises nothing, so helming a small sloop still asks for monitoring, but it is made much more forgiving by a deep keel, an outboard motor, and a cabin packed with helpful gear.

Michael has a very deep keel in the water, and I credit his personal response to the pressure as key to our success.

Moreover, the deep keel shape cavity harboring the embryos in both designs reduces movement of surrounding medium.

Traditionally, the America's Cup has been sailed in sleek, single-hulled yachts with deep keels, competing head-to-head.

The rule tended to favor narrow designs with deep keels and towering masts to carry the thousands of square feet of sail needed to push the heavy boats through the waves.

Call it the Das Boot effect: With their deep keels and heavy ballast, J-boats push such a mass of water that they tend to hunker down in a breeze, submerging the bow and stern and soaking practically everyone on deck.

Entering over the reefs that protected the anchorage, Marengo's deeper keel scraped on the coral.

Icebergs are commonly far larger than those in the Arctic and have deeper keels; they scour the seafloor at deeper levels and would be more likely to damage seafloor installations such as wellheads, pipelines, and mooring systems.

Another boat developed in the maritime provinces was the Cape Island sloop, a deep draft keel sloop once popular in the shore fisheries.