Sentence examples for yawl from inspiring English sources
They came after vigorous days of sailing his yawl Wyntje off the coast of Georgia or Maine.
The yawl or dinghy, sometimes called a stern-boat when it was slung from davits at the stern of the ship, was a short, square-sterned rowing boat, either lapstrake- or caravel-planked, and sometimes fitted to sail.
The word yawl is sometimes applied to a dinghy and to a light fishing vessel rigged with lugsails.
In common with the ketch, the forward (main) mast is higher than the mizzenmast, but the mizzenmast of a yawl is placed astern of the rudder post, while that of the ketch is closer amidships.
An extinct beach boat is the Yarmouth beach yawl, a long, narrow, lapstrake double-ender with sharp ends, built for salvage work and rigged with two or three lugsails and a jib.
Conrad's Heart of Darkness takes its readers on a hellish voyage up "a mighty big river... resembling an immense snake uncoiled... its tail lost in the depths of the land", but it begins opposite Gravesend in Kent, as Marlowe and his transfixed listeners wait on the Nellie, a cruising yawl, for the ebbing tide.
Significant manufactures include cement, processed sugar and rum, clothing, fabricated metals, and yawls and other small craft.
Smaller cutters and yawls worked around Europe using drift gill nets and setnets.
Modern yawls are powered, and the yawls carried aboard skipjacks, the V-bottomed sloops popular in Chesapeake Bay waters, are known as push-boats because they are used to push the mother ship in a calm.
Like most modern pleasure boats, yawls are rigged with fore-and-aft sails (in line with the keel), the most effective rigging in utilizing manpower.
In all, they have been responsible for about a thousand designs for pleasure craft, most of them sailboats-ranging from dinghies to stately yawls & ketches that can carry a dozen passengers across the ocean.
