Sentence examples for sail vessels from inspiring English sources

A boat is conjured up by a rim and a sail; vessels and creatures seen through a telescope are held up as tiny models.

In the great days of sail, vessels were designed and built on the basis of practical experience; ship construction was predominantly a skill.

Dr. Louis D. Friedman of the Planetary Society, the private American group that sponsored the $4million project, said the Cosmos1 solar sail vessel was probably destroyed.

The wider, deeper hulled merchantmen relied increasingly on the sail, and ultimately all-sail vessels came into use.

Nonetheless, few sailing vessels could escape self-propelled steamers.

"The brochures show kids on sailing vessels, blue seas and white sands," she said.

The family had almost a collection of bottles picked up by sailing vessels and along coastlines.

Even there, he could conjure up images of sailing vessels and the sea.

For more than two millennia the small, lateen-rigged sailing vessels called dhows were predominant.

A number of sailing vessels, including whalers, visited the island from 1792 onward.

He also subcontracts for Cherubini, which produces some of the state's sleek 40- to 50-foot wooden sailing vessels.