Sentence examples for huge sail from inspiring English sources

We hoist up our banner, like a huge sail in the wind.

His current boat is a fast, forty-four-foot Wyliecat with a flexible, carbon-fibre mast and one huge sail.

This aided the distribution of the huge sail weight on the tail bearing and also provided greater clearance between the sails and the support structure.

Balance is a key to success in the 22-foot Star, a complex keelboat with a huge sail plan that requires a big crewman to keep it flat and fast when sailing in heavy air.

At times we could see whales swimming with their body immersed and only their enormous tail, 5m or 6m wide and 2m high, standing straight up; other times, we would see them lying motionless in the sea, their tail spread like a huge sail above the water.

A Maritime Museum has exhibits from 16th-century shipwrecks to 1930's cruise ships to the Bermuda fitted dinghy, a 14-foot anomaly with an absurdly tall mast, a huge sail and an inexplicable way of cutting rapidly through rather than over the water.

Kapoor elegantly divides the stage with four huge, sail-like triangles whose apexes meet, as if at the top of the ship's mast.

In front of that, hanging from the davits, is a huge sailing yacht.

With two grinders on each of four winch pedestals, trimming the huge sails left the most fit among them exhausted.

Sex scenes — involving a regatta/orgy that features a pornographic film projected on the huge sails of a schooner — suffer from the sort of smarmy voyeurism that weighed down his last novel, "I Am Charlotte Simmons" (2004).

The huge sails made the powerful boats unstable so their 10-man crews had to shift 50-pound bags of sand around the boats to keep them upright during racing.