Sentence examples for nautical experience from inspiring English sources

On the trawlers, they have to have some kind of nautical experience.

A 35-year-old naval officer with great nautical experience, Captain Stanley was given command of HMS Rattlesnake, a 114-feet, 500-ton, 24-year-old frigate.

Both offer tent and RV camping options – Lake Mead boasts hundreds of campsites in five campgrounds – but for a more nautical experience you can also rent a houseboat.

Nautical experience isn't a prerequisite for the job, but Mompo, now 47 and based in southern Spain, had a passion for sailing.

Shingled with moonlight, the benign sea was a happy prospect for a man whose sea legs were cruelly amputated at birth: this would be my first out-of-Channel nautical experience not endured as a porridge-faced, mumbling hermit, unhinged by malnourishment and a hallucinogenic overdose of seasickness remedies.

Most of those joining had no nautical experience at all.

It involved Joan Lowell (Helen Joan Wagner's "Cradle of the Deep," a book published by S. &. S. Joan Lowell, a California lady, had cone a certain amount of sailing, and occasionally gave lectures on her nautical experiences.

Perhaps it was the rolling air mattress he slept on, but he made nautical metaphors about the experience.

He was chosen for two principal reasons: first, he had extensive experience with nautical affairs, both in his boyhood home of Key West and later in Washington; and second, he was from Florida.

This nautical factoid he had learned from experience, from nearlytwenty years on the force fishing out dead drug dealers, drowningvictims, and the occasional jumper from the Fort McHenry Bridge.

Two days and 100 nautical miles out of New York, the liner experienced a heavy gale that disabled her steering gear, and forced her return to New York after temporary repairs failed.