Sentence examples for mast height from inspiring English sources
They feature fractional rigs, meaning their jib is 75 percent of their mast height, forming an imperfect triangle.
Free and constrained physical models with varying mast height and centre of gravity were tested.
Free model testing, with varying mast height and centre of gravity position, were carried out in breaking waves.
It is shown that the apparent wind onto a yacht is "twisted" over the mast height, due to the vector addition of the yacht and wind velocities.
This work demonstrates that re-righting probability is more dependent on mast height retention and wave characteristics than vertical centre of gravity.
The constrained tests showed that while the mast height had little effect on forces when stationary in waves it had a large effect when in sway motion.
Housing is set back at least 60 metres from the road, a dimension, like the lighting masts' height, that is governed by the distance you can throw a stone.
We were trolling down the middle of a New Zealand fjord, and the captain had asked us to pick a point on one of the towering cliff walls beside us that we believed to be about mast-height.
On 11 February 1942, he led a flight of three Hudsons in a raid on Gasmata harbour, making what the official history of the RAAF in World War II described as "the first mast-height attack on enemy shipping in the New Guinea campaign".
If wind speed has been measured at two or more heights along the mast, the top anemometer is almost always used as the reference level [24].
Should the Council on Tall Buildings ultimately disallow the unclad mast in its height calculation, 1 World Trade Center would lose both its symbolic dimension and its claim to unseating the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) in Chicago as the tallest building in America.
