Sentence examples for sail change from inspiring English sources

Boeckel was on the bow helping orchestrate a sail change from a large spinnaker to a smaller one when the fresh gusts filled in.

Soon, sail changes pass without incident.

Ms. Gee said the courses would be long, tough and technical, demanding frequent sail changes.

There will be quite a few decisions to make, quite a few sail changes to make," he said.

And I enjoyed my state of semi-collapse in the bow, ducking as the mighty white sail changed direction overhead.

And they did so after Kingfisher's largest spinnaker was slightly torn during a jibe, necessitating a half-hour fire drill of sail changes and repairs.

His log is full of sail changes and other such sailing technicalities and gives little impression of how he was coping with the voyage emotionally; still, describing a heavy low on 15 December he hints at his feelings, wondering "why the hell I was on this voyage anyway".

Deformation of the sail shape changes the flow characteristics over the sail, which in turn further deforms the sail shape.

Simulation results show that the tethered solar sail can efficiently change the asteroid's orbit.

Hypothesizing that the common ancestor of mammals and Dimetrodon possessed a sail requires two evolutionary changes: one change to the sailed condition and a second change to the non-sailed condition in a more recent ancestor of mammals.

Yet few pause to notice that the descendants of the empire-builders and of their formerly subject peoples now share the small island whose inhabitants once sailed away to change the face of the world.