Sentence examples for sailing instruction from inspiring English sources

So a week of sailing instruction seemed like a good idea when we booked.

And so, on New Year's Eve we resolved to change this, flicking through Sunsail's brochure for a holiday with beginners' sailing instruction.

In the P-100 program, 1,100 newly reporting midshipmen begin to receive basic sailing instruction immediately upon arriving at school.

Not everyone who knows how to drive a boat know how to sail, but anyone with certified sailing instruction will know the fundamentals of driving a boat.

Sailing instruction is recommended for anyone who wants to pursue boat use, because you will learn not only boater safety, but how the current, wind, and theory behind boating.

While mere seamen rely on experience and orally transmitted sailing instructions to find their way across the ocean, Vespucci ostentatiously wields his navigational instruments.

Sailing instructions are included on most of the charts, gracefully calligraphed inside cartouches of various shapes — oval, spherical, square, even some tacked at an angle across inland hills to look as if they were pinned there.

The writings of medieval Arab and Persian pilots from the 9th to the 15th century include detailed sailing instructions and information on navigation, winds, currents, coasts, islands, and ports from Sofala to China.

Captain James Horsburgh, a Scottish hydrographer to the British East India Company who had prepared many charts and sailing instructions for the East Indies, China, New Holland, the Cape of Good Hope and other intermediate ports, died in May 1836.

Part of the Chinese sailing instructions for the South China Sea based on information compiled by Admiral Zheng He (1371 1433) advised a navigator that after departing Long Ya Men (Mandarin for "Dragon's Teeth Gate"), a rocky outcrop at the gateway to what is now Keppel Harbour in Singapore, he should steer a course of between 75° and 90° for five watches until his vessel reached Baijiao.

In the Second Dutch War (1665 67), he served as captain of the fleet with the Duke of York (afterward James II). Penn was the author of a code of naval tactics that was the basis of the "Duke of York's Sailing and Fighting Instructions," long the orthodox tactical guide of the navy.