Sentence examples for reliable sailing from inspiring English sources
The Cunard company revolutionised travel in the 19th Century with its steam ships which added speed and safety to journeys which had previously been made on less reliable sailing ships.
As with motor racing, so too with sailing, a reliable gauge is needed to ensure successful manoeuvres are repeated time after time.
"Shipping lines require reliable ports and will sail their ships elsewhere if a port is not reliable," says Cecilia Eckelmann Battistello, managing director of Contship Italia, Gioia Tauro's operator.Gioia Tauro acts as a hub for the distribution of containers throughout the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
The schooner rig was intended to provid an auxiliary method of propulsion if the ship's engines broke down; by the time Giovanni Bausan entered service in the mid-1880s, marine steam engines had become reliable enough that auxiliary sails were no longer necessary, and hers were later removed.
The harbour covers an area of, and is ideal for sailing as it is exposed to reliable winds from most directions, but is sheltered from large waves and currents by Chesil Beach and the breakwaters.
Manufacturers could thus relax their standards and produce chips that were cheaper than, but as reliable as, their predecessors.The project will not be plain sailing.
The Olympic not only successfully completed its maiden voyage but became known as Old Reliable, serving as a troop carrier in the First World War, and sailing on for twenty years more.
He sailed blindly, virtually by instinct, without maps, charts or reliable pilots, into unknown oceans.
He starts with the Connecticut-born John Ledyard, who sailed with Captain Cook and in 1783 published a journal containing one of the most reliable accounts of Cook's violent death in Hawaii.
