Sentence examples for performance of boats from inspiring English sources

After discovering that sails, then largely made of cotton canvas, were often badly sewn or sloppily cut, he took them apart and remade them into stauncher products that improved the performance of boats.

ETNZ will now make further modifications to its boat hoping that the package will further improve the performance of the boat.

We are very happy with the performance of the boat and we're looking forward to the next race".

Imbalances between the singers and orchestra, and a sound system that sometimes produced obscuring echoes, were the only problems with the rewarding performance of "Show Boat," the landmark 1927 musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, presented Tuesday night in a concert adaptation by the Pulitzer-winning playwright Doug Wright as a benefit for Carnegie Hall.

As a gold medal winner in the coxless four at the 2008 Olympics, James knows the attention focused by the British media on the performance of his boat.

She was originally intended to carry two small steam torpedo boats, each with a one-pounder gun, and a trainable torpedo tube, but they were cancelled after the poor performance of the boat built for the Maine.

So yes, this concert performance of Show Boat made clear how much this war horse of a musical needs the spectacle of sets and costumes to put over its era-spanning trajectory and distract from the paper-thin melodrama at its heart.

And though Cayard says he "still needs to raise a million bucks to get all the way to March," the performance of his new boat, USA-61, in the semifinals should help the cause.

Crunching the vast amount of data collected during races (about 3,000 variables are recorded ten times a second), closely analysing the performance of the rival boat and testing the effectiveness of apparently tiny adjustments on virtual models run through a supercomputer, mathematicians and designers had been working night and day to make the boat faster.

The Prada-backed Italians entered the America's Cup a long time after New Zealand, bought an off-the-shelf design package from the Kiwis, and had no answer to the superior performance of the second Kiwi boat.

Saturday's agenda in St . Petersburgis more of the same: a museum tour, an hour's chat with university students, a performance of "The Nutcracker," a nighttime boat ride on St . Petersburgs canals.