Sentence examples for sail fast from inspiring English sources

"All ships are built with the expectation they'd have to sail fast".

He could build anything and had an instinctive feel for how to make a boat sail fast.

Enron was sailing close to the wind, but that's the way to sail fast, and in the late 1990s the stock market was rewarding those who did so.

John Paul Jones, warns us to hold on to our hats: "I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way".

One should remember the quotation from John Paul Jones, "I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way".

Jones did write, however, what has to be one of the greatest sentences in maritime history: "I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way".

Nor is wind power practical for large vessels like container ships, which sail faster than 15 knots and need their deck space for cargo.

The combination of the wing and the jib on the catamaran allows the boat to always sail faster than the speed of the wind.

Arbuthnot, whose copper-clad ships could sail faster than those of Destouches, reached Cape Henry on March 16, just ahead of the French fleet.

"Acqua azzurra," which means "blue water," seems an apt way to describe a career that has sailed fast forward.

The America's Cup will begin this summer with 15 teams from a record 12 countries sailing fast catamarans in a true World Series.