Slezak is equipped only with a pocket compass, which he could consult only infrequently & surreptitiously, & after a considerable period of drifting & sailing about in the open Atlantic at the directional whim of the other members of the lifeboat's crew, he finally takes charge of the situation & through fair weather & foul guides the little boat to a German supply ship.
Come evening, you can even dine in the spot where a young Jules Verne once lived and drew inspiration from the 19th-century sailing ships drifting past his window during the city's maritime heyday.
On 10 July 1969, the Royal Mail vessel Picardy, steaming through the mid-Atlantic towards the Caribbean, encountered a yacht, drifting under a single sail, like the Marie Celeste.
At first, there were two harmonies alternating every couple of bars, then the alternation sped up, every bar, every half bar, and suddenly Mozart released everything into eight sailing bars — a balloon drifting, all ties to the earth cut.
It revolves on its boom like a windsurfing sail, and when we're drifting I can raise it above the deck for shade, like an awning".
Victor Homola (NYT) SPAIN: DRIFTING IMMIGRANTS RESCUED The coast guard rescued a boat carrying 26 illegal immigrants that had been drifting in the Mediterranean for several days after setting sail from Morocco.
Just then he saw two red-haired girls sail by in a green canoe, drifting with the current.
On 4 December 1872, a merchant brigantine called the Mary Celeste, out of New York and headed for Genoa, was found drifting in the Atlantic off Portugal, under full sail but apparently abandoned.
To distract French attention from the drifting boats, Pym directed Captain Henry Lambert in Iphigenia to sail conspicuously off Port Napoleon, where the main body of the French squadron, led by Hamelin in Vénus, was based.
(a) Pole system for drifting observation and (b) hull-mounted system for line-controlled sailing observation.
Over the following eight days, he wrote 25,000 words of increasingly tortured prose, drifting farther and farther from reality, as Teignmouth Electron continued sailing slowly north, largely untended.
