Sentence examples for flat seas from inspiring English sources

The Feb. 23 incident, off Long Beach, Calif., reportedly took place in 10 to 12 knots of wind and flat seas.

Race officials took half an hour to clear the course, and when the boats got underway, the breeze was an easy 8 knots with flat seas.

Team Adventure, skippered by Cam Lewis, was 45 miles ahead of Jet Service's record and sailing at 30 knots in perfect conditions, with a quartering southwesterly breeze and flat seas.

In the day's 12- to 14-knot breezes and flat seas, the conditions in which they purportedly might enjoy a marked speed advantage over the Kiwis, they clearly did not.

Six hours of solitary drifting in flat seas, sniffing a blend of chum, diesel fuel and sea air in a muffled envelope of fog and heat, had produced a deceptive, somewhat delirious perception that The Breakaway was alone on a metallic ocean, wrapped in a white cocoon.

Starting off from New York's Ambrose Light in under 20 knots of building breeze and flat seas, Play- Station was out of the blocks quickly and shaved early miles by skimming through the shallow waters off Nantucket and into Georges Bank.

What Ms. Bright can produce ranges from controlled chaos -- a crinkled polyester curtain for a New York apartment that looks alive with the electricity of an approaching storm -- to a flatness as tranquil as a flat sea.

"All the way from the Urals," he said, still gazing at the long, flat sea.

Three weeks ago, a friend and I took our kayaks down to Cardigan Bay, and launched them on to a flat sea.

All he can see is the far horizon: the flat sea meeting the flat sky with barely a join between the two.

But even in a flat sea, you can get a squall — rain, thunder for 15 minutes to an hour, and then calm again.