Sentence examples for light boats from inspiring English sources

Prabhakaran divided his thousands of Tiger recruits into an army, a navy (with some light boats) and an air force (with flimsy aircraft), and raised money for weapons by extortion, robbery and arm-twisting of the Tamil diaspora.

And over the past two decades, more sailors have rounded Cape Horn than in the 80 previous years; they have done so in increasingly light boats, including catamarans and trimarans, with very little loss of life.The sailors of yore in the days when CNN did not exist to broadcast their fate, and when The Economist was too busy covering the empire died unnoticed.

The scene could not be more ukiyo- e: three light boats carrying fish to market on a work day.

And this is around the point that the cox realises that he forgot to lock the boat house and leaves the crew stood there with a not at all light boat high above their heads while he runs back inside.

Spotz's boat is the work of Phil Morrison, a British yacht designer who had been asked by Chay Blythe, a well-known Scottish rower, to design a small, light boat capable of surviving extreme conditions.

If you happen to have a light boat that you can push across the ice ahead of you, you should push it to the edge of the hole, get into it, and then pull the victim over the bow, making sure that it doesn't capsize.

It is dusk as everyone makes small talk, and brightly lit boats zip up and down the river.

From there, the mother vessels will transfer their cargo onto lighter boats that will carry the coal upriver.

Her crew were left adrift in three whaleboats (lighter boats used in the capture of whales) thousands of miles from land.

A mile west of Pudding Lane, by Westminster Stairs, young William Taswell, a schoolboy who had bolted from the early morning service in Westminster Abbey, saw some refugees arrive in hired lighter boats, unclothed and covered only with blankets.

The view of the Lighted Boat Parade from the tables on Alonzo's deck is terrific.