Combined with modern waterproof battery packs, electric outboards are also ideal for yacht tenders and other inshore pleasure boats.

The most familiar type of sailboat, a small pleasure yacht, usually has a sail-plan called a sloop.

These have uncovered a great many objects of historical significance, including many Bronze Age vessels Canoes, some up to 40ft in length, and the wreck of a Victorian pleasure yacht.

At this time there was the start of pleasure sailing at Salcombe with the yacht club being founded in 1874.

Han then takes a pleasure yacht called the Queen of Empire, as it is heading to Bilbringi, so that he can confront Reck Desh.

So, at the Queen of Empires stop at Bilbringi, Desh's Peace Brigade forces attack the pleasure yacht and attempt to kidnap Elan and Vergere.

In one scene, she lures Canadian admiral Chuck Farrell onto a yacht moored off Monte Carlo and while engaging in violent sexual intercourse, while crushing him to death ; she moans in pleasure as he moans in pain, and reaches orgasm as he dies.

Simon Templar, alias The Saint, is enjoying a pleasure cruise along the French coast aboard his yacht, the Corsair when he is awakened in the middle of the night by the sound of gunfire and shouting from another vessel ( the Falkenberg ) anchored nearby.

The port now provides a centre for pleasure boating and sailing, it has moorings, a marina and a well-developed accompaniment of yacht support businesses, including rigging, sail making and boatyards.

Williams bought the Krupp-built Vanadis, then the largest private yacht afloat, with a cruising radius of 12, 000 mi., renamed her Warrior, and refitted her for his own oceanographic and pleasure purposes.

In the 20th century, the term " gin palace " came to be used for large ostentatious pleasure craft, such as a motor yacht or luxury yacht, typically moored in a marina and fitted with a sun deck used for outdoor entertaining and leisure, normally involving alcoholic drinks.

He was not enthusiastic over the newly acquired Claude Lorrain, but reminisced with pleasure over a Poussin exhibit he had been able to see in Paris a year ago.

In B. M. Spinley's portrayal of the underprivileged and undereducated youth of London, a salient finding was the inability to postpone gratification, a need to satisfy impulses immediately without the pleasure of anticipation or of savoring the experience.

Another classic sight that gave us considerable pleasure was the Evzone sentry, in his ballet skirt with great pompons on his shoes, who was patrolling up and down in front of the palace.

It was a word he was proud of, a word that meant much to him, and he used it with great pleasure, almost as if it were an exclusive possession, and more: he sensed himself to be very highly educated, four cuts above any of the folks back home.

He was again tingling with pleasure, seeing himself clearly in Slater's shoes.

It was much the same with pleasure boating at first.

`` Uncle Sam '' was, indeed, a rich uncle to Prokofieff, in those opulent, post-war victory years of peace and prosperity, bold speculations and extravaganzas, enjoyment and pleasure: `` The Golden Twenties ''.

Grandma said it was just like the early mining camp days, and it was the way people ought to live, only she was getting too old to take the pleasure from it that she used to.

Time stood still for these people, and their load of pleasure was so commingled with the shocks and pains of the dromozoa that the words of the Lady Da took on very remote meaning.

Eating was not only a physical pleasure, it was also an intellectual research.

The usual grant was in precaria, the granting of a life tenure, whereby the tenant stayed on the land only at the pleasure of the lord.

The concept of cruising for pleasure was popularized in the nineteenth century, by several widely read authors and books: John MacGregor, 1866, A Thousand Miles in a Rob Roy Canoe ; Robert Louis Stevenson, 1877, An Inland Voyage ; and Nathaniel H. Bishop, 1879, Four Months in a Sneakbox.

Joshua Slocum was one of the first people to carry out a long-distance sailing voyage for pleasure, circumnavigating the world between 1895 and 1898.

However only a small minority actually had a voice ; Parliament was elected by only a few percent of the population, ( less than 3 % as late as 1780 ), and the power to call parliament was at the pleasure of the monarch ( usually when he or she needed funds ).

As has happened with ironic writings before and since, this pamphlet was widely misunderstood but eventually its author was prosecuted for seditious libel and was sentenced to be pilloried, fined 200 marks and detained at the Queen's pleasure.

There was little to no concern with the future, the present dominating in the pursuit for immediate pleasure.

The spectacular upsurge in pleasure boating is markedly evident, expectedly, in the areas where boats have always been found: the natural lakes, rivers, and along the nation's coastline.

It is up to individual collectors whether this concerns them ; collecting such issues is as legitimate an endeavor as any other collection, but is unlikely to result in a collection of any value or to provide a monetary return on an investment ( though it may be found worthwhile in other ways, such as teaching geography or collecting methods to a child, or sheer pleasure in the beauty of some of these issues ).

He was a very introspective person, and found his pleasure in painting, drawing and watching films.

Living in fear of being found out or punished would take away from pleasure, and this made even secret wrongdoing inadvisable.

It is for these that both utility and pleasure seem to be found in this kind of friendship.

The hull shape of a PT boat was similar to the " planing hull " found in pleasure boats of the time ( and still in use today ): a sharp V at the bow softening to a flat bottom at the stern.

This structure supports an extensive and deep mass of earth, in which are planted broad-leaved trees of the sort that are commonly found in gardens, a wide variety of flowers of all species and, in brief, everything that is most agreeable to the eye and conducive to the enjoyment of pleasure.

Some of them found pleasure and even a cure in the changing surroundings, in the isolation of being cast off, while others withdrew further, became worse, or died alone and away from their families.

These phrases are also found as calques in English, as " It was my pleasure " and " The pleasure was " is " mine.

A number of pleasure beaches are found on the southern end of the lake, which are popular in the summer, attracting many visitors from Winnipeg, about 80 km south.

In psychology, the pleasure principle describes pleasure as a positive feedback mechanism, motivating the organism to recreate in the future the situation which it has just found pleasurable.

Labeled " the album of pleasure " by Dion herself, the album cover showed Dion in a simple and relaxed manner, contrary to the choreographed poses usually found on her album covers.

Micheaux found pleasure in this job because he was able to speak to many new people and learned many social skills that he would later reflect within his films.

one might be found amongst the many spendthrifts of the present age, instead of ruining themselves by gaming, or laying snares to debauch young Females, by their false promises and many other bad vices ; would be rejoiced at such an opportunity, of reclaiming themselves by withdrawing from the snares laid for them by bad and designing Men and Women, who constantly lay wait to lead astray the young and unwary that are possessed of large property, such might here have the pleasure and satisfaction to make a real Paradise on earth, by illuminating a place that would for ever shine and display their generosity.

In Pakistan, tangas are mainly found in the older parts of cities and towns, and are becoming less popular for utilitarian travel and more popular for pleasure.

The tone of the poem rejects the optimistic pursuit of pleasure found within Keats's earlier poems, and it explores the themes of nature, transience and mortality, the latter being particularly personal to Keats.

The gravity-fed spirit stove is still found in many pleasure boats, although it has largely been replaced by compressed gas stoves.

The Ekeko is depicted as a man with a mustache wearing traditional Andean clothes ( especially the poncho ) and completely loaded with bags and baskets with grain and food, ( compare with the cornucopia of some Greco-Roman deities ), household objects, and currency bills, and basically anything that a person is thought to want or need to have a comfortable and prosperous life ; he is commonly found as a little statue to be put in some place of the house, preferably a comfortable one, but also as an amulet attached to key rings ; modern statues of the god include a circular opening in his mouth in which to place a cigarette for Ekeko's pleasure.

Paul Nakware Ekai, a discharged labourer formerly employed by Adamson, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to imprisonment at President Daniel arap Moi's pleasure.

In psychology and psychiatry, anhedonia ( ; Greek: ἀν-an -, " without " + ἡδονή hēdonē, " pleasure ") is defined as the inability to experience pleasure from activities usually found enjoyable, e. g. exercise, hobbies, sexual activities or social interactions.

The condition is most frequently found in males, but women can suffer from lack of pleasure when the body goes through the orgasm process as well.