It is also that rare lighthouse that sailors can round completely.
When these expeditions landed troops or sailors to round up livestock, they were sometimes met with resistance.
"I refuse to grant these girls a clean death," Telemachus proclaims, in Wilson's translation: At that, he wound a piece of sailor's rope round the rotunda and round the mighty pillar, stretched up so high no foot could touch the ground.
And over the past two decades, more sailors have rounded Cape Horn than in the 80 previous years; they have done so in increasingly light boats, including catamarans and trimarans, with very little loss of life.The sailors of yore in the days when CNN did not exist to broadcast their fate, and when The Economist was too busy covering the empire died unnoticed.
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I am very fortunate to have sailed with Loïck, the best all round multihull sailor there is, and the rest of the team that are so talented, industrious, dedicated, fun and welcoming to an English guy with schoolboy French!
The Sayville Ferry Service crosses Great South Bay between Sayville and the Fire Island communities of Cherry Grove and Fire Island Pines for $11 round trip, Sailors Haven for $9 round trip and Water Island for $18 round trip.
A Royal Australian Air Force plane yesterday dropped medical supplies to a seriously ill American sailor competing in a round-the-world ocean race.
All is set against a romantic New York, where the Statue of Liberty, in Beowulf Borritt's expert design, looms large over a turquoise bubble gum river, ready for its next round of sailors, and you.
The boys in sailor suits rode rented blue tricycles round and round a track ringed with red cannas.
