Sentence examples for massive sail from inspiring English sources

When not in use, the SPS-26 radar was lowered into its fairwater housing for stowage within Tritons massive sail (pictured).

They are made for the downwind prevailing breezes of the west-to-east course, with wide, flat, stable sterns that skim across the waves at high speeds and massive sails made of strong, lightweight fibers like Kevlar and Spectra.

The waves beat a rhythm against the steel hull, ropes creak occasionally as they hold back two massive sails filled by a fresh northerly breeze, a donkey brays from the banks and a bunch of kids call "hello" until I wave.

Her massive sails, 160-ton displacement and slender rudder can make tight maneuvers the equivalent of piloting an overpowered, skinny-tired racing car from the 1930s around a modern track.

We fuel up, and we need it: Muscle moves this forest of wrist-thick lines and massive sails.

In their place are two massive multihulls with sail technology worthy of the 2010s and two true antagonists in owners Larry Ellison of BMW Oracle Racing and Ernesto Bertarelli of Alinghi.

Curious to find out whether Fathom had devised a model to make voluntourism work and on a massive, profit-making scale—I set sail on its cruise.

The massive outbreak comes with some sailing teams already in Qingdao preparing for the Olympics.

In Rescue of the Bounty, he crosses from individual captains' mistakes to the phenomena of group think, in which the whole crew of this big wooden ship (from Brando's Mutiny on the Bounty and Pirates of the Caribbean movies) doesn't question the decision to attempt sailing around a massive hurricane that they all knew about.

A solar sail, which is a massive reflector pushed along by the pressure of sunlight, also accelerates slowly but steadily; Gilster believes that either method could attain a velocity of roughly sixty-two miles per second.

Massive space shuttle fuel tank sets sail for Los Angeles.