Sentence examples for sailing upwind from inspiring English sources

It's like sailing upwind.

The crew could have used the time sailing upwind to recover.

And the Italians were making 8.2 to 8.9 knots sailing upwind.

The first results recorded while sailing upwind in head waves are shown.

She was thrown forward as her boat Kingfisher was brought to a grinding halt while sailing upwind at 11 knots last Tuesday night.

The 72-foot (22-metre) carbon-fibre catamarans with their 132-foot wing sails were the fastest sailing boats ever designed, capable of downwind speeds in excess of 50mph (80kph) on their foils as they almost literally flew past the shoreline spectators.But one boat was clearly much quicker than the other sailing upwind.

Guitars and sailboats clearly do not deliver freedom in the sense of a maximization of choice; you might even say that the guitar player or the sailor is constrained, or even trapped, for a sailboat will not sail upwind, and a guitar will not easily produce pleasing sounds.

This work presents a full-scale experimental study of a yacht rig and sails in real upwind sailing conditions and a comparison with Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI) simulations with the ARAVANTI model (Finite Element Method for the structure and Vortex Lattice Method for the fluid).

The leg's opening seven miles were cordoned off from the spectator fleet, and as the boats sailed directly upwind within the so-called exclusion zone, Assa Abloy began to make gains.

Using the developed method, velocity and attitude of a 30 feet sloop yacht, which was developed by Korea Research Institute of Ship and Ocean (KRISO) and termed KORDY30, were predicted in upwind sailing condition.

The performance of the present approach is demonstrated by several numerical experiments for aeronautical applications (inverse and direct problems for transonic airfoils) as well as naval ones (optimisation of upwind flying sail for sailing yacht).