Sentence examples for mast turning from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, they lacked the sturdy centre-mounted rudders of Chinese junks or Western craft, and Japanese rudders mounted to one side snapped readily in heavy seas, just when the craft most needed steerage.To reduce the risk of foundering in a storm, the crew of a rudderless craft would cut down the mast, turning their vessel into a hulk, at the mercy of wind and waves.

In July 1985, he was prouder of it than ever: They'd just spent seven gruelling months refitting it with a mast to turn it into a sailing ship, and then sailed through the Panama Canal and across the Pacific to New Zealand.

He realised that if Opportunity rotated itself 17.5° clockwise to the drive direction and its camera mast then turned anticlockwise by the same amount, its rear view was unimpeded.

"They [EE] rationalised some of their masts, so turned off a load of masts, didn't tell anybody that's what they were doing so all of a sudden there was a significant drop in coverage for my constituents," said Ms Williams, who raised the problem during a conference with Ofcom and the Farmers' Union of Wales at the Royal Welsh Show.

Walt Whitman was enthralled by the "tall masts" that turned South Street into a forest.

The manager at Bollywood Cinemas at Al Quoz said that people had complained that men were wearing lungis in the "half-mast" fashion, which turned the outfit into loincloths or short skirts.

Eventually, he was told by an engineer that some of the operator's masts had been "turned off" in his area following the merger of Orange and T-Mobile to form EE. "But they refused to let me leave my contract early, offering only a 50% discount after my persistent complaints about them not keeping their side of the deal".

Ms Williams claimed EE had turned masts off without warning their customers.

Even when their parents were actually located in Akobo, in the far east of the country, speaking to their parents on the phone was difficult as phone masts were often turned off for security reasons.

After we muscled the 1,800-square-foot 1,800-square-foot 1,800-square-foote boat was turned to catch the air, the engine was cut, and USA 76 took off.

The company now says it plans to turn the mast off at the end of June because it is not commercially viable.