Sentence examples for sailing weather from inspiring English sources

He was a passionate sailor -- when he was on the Cape, his hard working staff prayed for good sailing weather, some relief from his incessant demands for information.

Ariel is charged to prepare the proper sailing weather to guide Alonso and his entourage (including Prospero and Miranda) back to the Royal fleet and then to Naples, where Ferdinand and Miranda will be married.

Rory and Piper now know that they can set sail, weather the storm, reach their destination and return home.

It is impossible to say that Moitessier would have won if he had completed the race, as he would have been sailing in different weather conditions than Knox-Johnston did, but based on his time from the start to Cape Horn being about 77% of that of Knox-Johnston, it would have been extremely close.

This would have been an immensely difficult task, involving the need to make up convincing descriptions of weather and sailing conditions in a different part of the world, as well as complex reverse navigation.

There was no ship's surgeon aboard but the vessel was periodically visited by Chief Surgeon John White, who was rowed out to her from Sirius when weather and sailing conditions permitted.

As safety is always ahead of pleasure on sailing boats bad weather may well change initial plans.

Both the MS Sea Diamond and the MS Costa Concordia ran aground and sank after hitting well marked reefs while sailing in good weather.

In addition, sails are often grouped according to their function, usually as cruising sails for ordinary weather, summer sails for tropical weather, storm sails for extremely heavy weather, and racing sails.

Because he had a tendency to sail in all weather conditions, he was given the nickname "Mau", from the Satawalese word maumau, meaning "strong".

Several raised questions about why the vessel was sailing in such inclement weather, and why the captain failed to issue a distress signal but managed to swim to safety.