Sentence examples for facing the sail from inspiring English sources

Sit facing the sail near the centre of the boat (close to the centre thwart if it has one) and closely observe the sail for catching wind.

Shift your body entirely across the boat and sit facing the sail on the other side if the wind shifts and the boom comes across, or if you choose to tack and the boom comes across.

This is the area in which your boat is facing the wind (the sail will flap no matter how hard you pull) - if you stop, you will have no steering control.

For a solar sail directly facing the sun in a bound orbit, the Poynting Robertson effect decreases its orbital speed, thereby causing it to slowly spiral towards the sun.

Less than an hour later, nine warships had sailed into positions facing the fort.

The face of the sail features an anchor with a pair of crossed spyglasses in traditional maritime style.

To write his next book, he set out to face "the ultimate fear" and so sailed on an Orkney trawler to Arctic fishing grounds in the depths of winter.

But they are not the face of the team; like quarterbacks are the face of most NFL franchises, the skippers are the faces of the sailing crews.

The notion that the Pirros now face smooth sailing is not universally accepted.

Given this support, you would expect the network to face smooth sailing.

Grab the boom and slide it onto the sail, the holes for adjustment facing down.