Sentence examples for set of sails from inspiring English sources

In addition, a set of sails made of specially molded sheets of composite materials costs $30,000 to $50,000, and each boat requires more than a dozen.

A Marblehead, Mass., man, who built the Vireo for his 12-year-old daughter, wanted $850 for it, which included a new set of sails.

Viewed from the rear with sunlight brightening its full set of sails, the majestic Gouden Leeuw (Golden Lion) has cannon smoke billowing from both sides.

He was the sort of man who didn't think to bring a transmitter, refused to carry an extra set of sails and used corroding paint cans to hold his water supply.

The schooner, though aged, was by no means obsolete, it had a small, rusty canon mounted on the forward deck and a spare set of sails, complete except for the flying jib, which had been premepted by one of the sailors who had lost his trousers while spear fishing.

It is the only set of sails we have anyway.

She was so touched that she bought him a set of sailing lessons.

Beneath the world's most memorable roof, visitors will find six performance venues seating a total of 5,738 people lined in white birch plywood and brush box glulam, and outside, a great public square, a fine restaurant under a smaller set of sail-like roofs, and, of course, one of the most compelling views any city in the world has to offer.  .

Since then I've bought a new set of sail bags emblazoned with my initials.

Next morning Stenhouse ordered the setting of sails, but on 15 February the ship was stopped by accumulated ice and remained, unable to move, for a further two weeks.

(The revelation of the captain's secret weapon - a set of speedy sails called "the ladies" and shaped like a woman's "undergarment of fantastic size" - is the one incongruous and laugh-out-loud moment in the book).