Sentence examples similar to sail length from inspiring English sources

A 12-meter boat is so named because its sail area, length and waterline correspond, through a variety of measurements, to a 12-meter formula.

Analysis of pressure time histories allows the large scale vortex shedding to be detected in the separation region, with a Strouhal number in the range 0.1 0.3, based on local sail chord length.

Two years later, the Briscoe-Partridge Line's Eagle was the first steamboat to sail the length of Chesapeake Bay.

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Florida's ensuing inbound pass sailed the length of the court to Haslem, who was fouled.

Her voyage around Britain began in Dover in June last year when she sailed the length of the south coast.

We had sailed the length of the Great Glen on the Ros Crana, the largest barge in Scotland, and now, for the last half mile, could smell the sea.

In the end, its conquest had to wait until 1906 when Roald Amundsen sailed its length in a fishing boat, Gjøa, a task that took him three years to complete.

It is named for an early-nineteenth-century American seal hunter, Nathaniel B. Palmer, who at age twenty left Stonington, Connecticut, in command of a small sloop, the Hero, sailed the length of the planet, crossed the wild stretch of ocean known as the Drake Passage, and entered the foggy, iceberg-covered Antarctic waters in search of fur seals.

Sailing the length of the western coast, they touched at Cambay and at Goa, from where Varthema visited the inland capital of Bijāpur; at Cannanore he detoured to visit Vijayanagar, a great city enjoying its final days of splendour; at Calicut (now Kozhikode) Varthema observed Hindu customs as well as trade and city government.

Having successfully sailed the length of the Atlantic and rounded Cape Agulhas in an unsuitable boat, he decided that he would take on the challenge of the sea again, but in a better boat and on his own terms.