Sentence examples for going upwind from inspiring English sources

We're going upwind with 30 knots of breeze".

"Our spinnaker pole almost went over the side and almost broke going upwind one time," he said.

Going upwind, all the hard work on boat tuning means their Star is so well balanced that even I can do a presentable job of sailing it.

But Team USA refrained from using the technique, which requires boats to sail at 45 degrees to the wind and to turn frequently, while going upwind, for fear that they would lose speed while turning.

The faster flowing air has less pressure which generates lift, this lift actually pulls the boat forward when going upwind.

When going upwind, pull in the sail so that the end of the boom is at the back corner of the boat.

So, I hypothesize that social facilitation of communication and food sharing and all these bright warm fuzzy feelings we get when we have a drink have basically evolved to facilitate rapid identification of fruit at a distance – you smell a plume, go upwind, and you get to the fruit.

Try to get upwind of the point of release.

But generally, not being dummies, you go to the upwind side and you work in the clean air".

The company has sold 260,000 credits since 1994, the vast majority of them going to polluters in the upwind states.

"They were going pretty damn well," Barker said of the upwind leg.