Sentence examples for poor sailing from inspiring English sources

Paradoxically, these beautiful, newly built leisure boats, intended to revive the concept of sailing, mostly offer rather poor sailing performance.

This allowed them to rapidly close with the French vessels whose efforts to escape were hampered by Duguay Trouin's poor sailing qualities.

Quest, smaller than any recent Antarctic exploration vessel, soon proved inadequate for its task, and progress south was delayed by its poor sailing performance and by frequent engine problems.

She'd hooked a fish and had taken off running down the road, laughing, in her boots and waders, with rod in hand and the poor fish sailing in the air.

Although ships with square-rigged sails are excellent for long voyages before trade winds, they are poor for coastal sailing, where all varieties of winds must be dealt with.

Wozniacki then turned things around in the second set, winning it comfortably, only to lose her grip on the encounter again and ending the match with a poor backhand that sailed beyond the baseline.

Ballard attributed their poor performance under sail to the drag of the propeller, which could neither be hoisted out of the water, nor feathered.

It was sailing in poor conditions near the island of Othonoi, north-west of Corfu when the call was made.

The delivery is poor and the ball sails wide.

Mr. Montaner's island sits in sight of Miami City Hall, surrounded by the marina, a restaurant and Shake-a-Leg Miami, which teaches disabled people and poor children how to sail.

She was curious about the influence of the "Indianos" — poor Asturians who had sailed to the Americas, made fortunes in tobacco, sent their brides to cooking school in Paris, and come home at the turn of the twentieth century with a taste for big painted Mexican villas, Cuban rum, and French crêpes.