Sentence examples for moored boat from inspiring English sources

He can skip a mop jig in the one-foot alleyway between a dock and a moored boat, and he can do it with either hand.

We'd halt for a diving swan or a soundless heron, a moored boat, a pretty pub… We did a lot of stopping.

Piling on dramatic detail, Rembrandt renders the landscape of a mountain gorge, the prow of a moored boat, people unconcernedly strolling in the distance, a basin placed to receive Isaac's blood, a ram that God has provided for a substitute sacrifice — all organized pictorially by a diagonal shaft of light from Heaven.

Chambers also won the return match, held on the Tyne on 19 April 1859, even after a collision with a moored boat left him a hundred yards behind.

Make sure the gates and paddles at the far end of the lock are closed, then open the paddles at the near end (the end nearest your moored boat).

Please stick to the following speeds (revs given for diesel narrowboat) Near moored boats = 2 mph (3.2 km/h) strolling speed/tickover/1000 revs (absolute max, better if slower, MUST be slower in shallow or narrow water).

That area is marked by coves, where people can moor boats.

A sand beach and two nearby inlets suitable for mooring boats are nearby.

It is a very common and useful knot that is used for mooring boats and hoisting or hauling objects.

Bowline, knot forming a loop at the end of a rope, used for mooring boats, hoisting, hauling, and fastening one rope to another.

They moored their boat, grumpily bought their groceries and returned to the mooring, only to discover that someone had stolen their boat.