Sentence examples for means of sailing from inspiring English sources

The route shaves thousands of miles and many days off the traditional means of sailing between Asia and Europe south through the Suez Canal, though it is open only a few months, in the summer.

The trip had given me a flavour of the isolation and misery of Bunce Island, but it had also allowed me to understand something about the loneliness of what it means to sail upriver in Africa.

Going upwind, all the hard work on boat tuning means their Star is so well balanced that even I can do a presentable job of sailing it.

But not on the night of sailing.

Learning to sail involves lots and lots of sailing.

To risk means, "to sail around a cliff".

At 08 20, with no means of making sail and with wreckage obscuring most of his gun decks, Decrés surrendered to spare any further, fruitless, loss of life.

This paper presents an empirical study investigating the effectiveness of different means of shading by sun sails and trees to improve the local thermal environment during the summer.

Mingling with political luminaries has not always meant smooth sailing.

But that doesn't mean smooth sailing.

Jibs proved handy in helping to steer and were much valued e.g., on the square-rigger, as a means of better close-hauled sailing and of setting extra sail with comparatively little labour demand.