The sail was still unfurled, though there were a good many holes in it, as Langer had predicted would be the case by now.

Even though no longship sail has been found, accounts verify that longships had square sails.

Some 400 reporters applied to sail, though most were turned away.

The extra sails and ease of the gaff sails make the rig easier to operate, though not necessarily faster, than a sloop on all points of sail other than up-wind.

The Welland Canal could handle ships large enough to sail across the ocean, though cargo was generally transferred to or from larger ocean-going vessels at Montreal.

Cabin Fever consisted of a group of ten contestants chosen specially for the show, most of whom had no sailing experience ( though they had received a quick course in sailing technique prior to setting sail ), who were to be put on the 27. 4 metre ( 90 foot ), two-masted schooner with a professional crew of two.

Even though d ' Estaing had been alerted to Byron's progress, and his fleet outnumbered Byron's, he still scrambled to embark soldiers and sail away from the island.

Within three months he set sail again, and though he wrote her affectionate letters, such was his fate that he did not return.

Seth couldn't face the idea of becoming a loner once more, and even though he still had Summer, he decided to sail the oceans for the summer in his boat, Summer Breeze, which was revealed to have been named after Summer.

It had been for some years even then the tradition of ships passing at Thanet to lower their top sail in salutation to the Shrine and Chapel, which was though to bring a good fate to the passage of the ship.

The High Elves for the main part confine themselves to Ulthuan, though they have colonies across the known world, and their ships are the finest that sail upon the waves.

Cleats or thole pins are fitted for the oars, and there may be a mast and sail, though with a minimum of rigging.

Unusually for the area a sail was used, though without shrouds or stays.

The Renaissance changed this: beginning in 1475, the cultural obstinacy of the northern European merchant class with regard to sail arrangements began to crack, and within a hundred years the fore-and-aft rig was in common use on rivers and in estuaries in Britain, northern France, and the Low Countries, though the square rig remained standard for the harsher conditions of the open North Sea as well as for trans-Atlantic sailing.

Both the Liverpool Maritime Museum and the Ellesmere Port Museum have a Mersey flat in their collections, though neither actually worked under sail.

Leissègues had reportedly issued orders for the squadron to sail for Jamaica, even though several of the French ships were not yet ready for sea, and two frigates were already under sail when the British arrived.

Calafia, in turn, convinces her people to take their ships, weapons, armor, riding beasts, and 500 griffins, and sail with her to Turkey to fight the Christians, though she has no concept of what it means to be Moslem or Christian.

Paragon, also known as the Pariah, is owned by the Ludluck family, though they refuse to sail him because of his past behavior.

Fernández de Lugo, though wounded, was able to escape with his life ( by exchanging the red cape of an Adelantado for that of a common soldier ), and his surviving forces ( some 200 men ) were harried until he was forced to re-embark at Añazo and sail back to Gran Canaria.

Gusts had pushed Captain past the safe angle and she had capsized, even though at the time she was carrying little sail.

On the evening that they were to sail, Lewis himself gave a party, but he was too indisposed to appear at it.

Hudson was free to sail on.

* In 1952, Ann Davison was the first woman to single-handedly sail the Atlantic Ocean.

Alfonso requested support from Braccio da Montone, who was besieging Joan's troops in L ' Aquila, but had to set sail for Spain, where a war had broken out between his brothers and the Kingdom of Castile.

Briefly, the first Aeolus was a son of Hellen and eponymous founder of the Aeolian race ; the second was a son of Poseidon, who led a colony to islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea ; and the third Aeolus was a son of Hippotes who is mentioned in Odyssey book 10 as Keeper of the Winds who gives Odysseus a tightly closed bag full of the captured winds so he could sail easily home to Ithaca on the gentle West Wind.

Returning to the fleet at the Tagus in late April 1798, he was ordered to collect the squadron stationed at Gibraltar and sail for the Ligurian Sea.

Bonaparte had ordered the fleet to anchor in Aboukir Bay, a shallow and exposed anchorage, but had supplemented the orders with the suggestion that if Aboukir Bay was too dangerous Brueys could sail north to Corfu, leaving only the transports and a handful of lighter warships at Alexandria.

By 18: 00, the British fleet was again under full sail, Vanguard sixth in the line of ten ships as Culloden trailed behind to the north, and Alexander and Swiftsure hastened to catch up to the west.

At first of a mind to let Anthony sail and then attack him, he was prevailed upon by Agrippa to give battle.

This was compounded by transportation problems-the coffee-growing areas were mainly on the Central Valley and only had access to the port in Puntarenas on the Pacific Coast, and before the Panama Canal was opened, ships from Europe had to sail around Cape Horn in order to get to the Pacific Coast.

It was from Constantinople that his expedition for the reconquest of the former Diocese of Africa set sail on or about 21 June 533.

When the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by a whale in 1820, the captain opted to sail 3000 miles upwind to Chile rather than 1400 miles downwind to the Marquesas because he had heard the Marquesans were cannibals.

" As soon as they set sail, such a storm arose that ship was driven ashore.

Alexandra was a three-masted sailing ship with auxiliary steam power, and despite remaining flagship was already outdated in a navy which was steadily transitioning from sail to steam.

The U-boats were to surrender to Commodore Reginald Tyrwhitt at Harwich, under the supervision of the Harwich Force, then the surface fleet was to sail to the Firth of Forth and surrender personally to Beatty.

His ship was a new destroyer which he was to sail to Singapore and exchange for an older ship, HMS Wishart.

Douglass set sail on the Cambria for Liverpool on August 16, 1845, and arrived in Ireland as the Irish Potato Famine was beginning.

In the Viking Age Mälaren was still a bay of the Baltic Sea, and seagoing vessels could sail up it far into the interior of Sweden.

No statites have been deployed to date, as solar sail technology is still in its infancy.

Eager to set sail for home, he ignored the local knowledge of monsoon wind patterns which were still blowing onshore.

With only two sails, it is more difficult for a sloop to reduce sail as the wind increases, while still keeping the boat balanced.

The plentiful oyster harvests led to the development of the skipjack, the state boat of Maryland, which is the only remaining working boat type in the United States still under sail power.

The mooring, winter storage and maintenance of recreational boats, motor and sail, still contribute a large part of the city's income.

They were still sail and oar boats, fitted with hoops and canvas tilts for the comfort of their passengers.

The early Oxford English Dictionary ( with citations from 1720 to 1854 ) still defined brig as being either identical to a brigantine, or alternatively, a vessel of similar sail plan to a modern brig.

Although it is extensively used for leisure, the River Medway is not used for local transport purposes ; however, cargo ships operated by Union Transport of Bromley still sail to the cement works to the south at Halling / Cuxton.

Drake mentioned the idea to surfer Hoyle Schweitzer who wanted to develop it, but Drake was still unsure of how to control and steer what he envisaged in a design concept as a surfboard with upright sail design, whereby the sailor stood upright on the board holding the sail.

In this case the wind is coming over the port side of the boat but you are still on starboard tack because the sail is on the port side.

She will be the only original New Zealand scow still afloat to carry sail.

One day, the very ship on which Sinbad set sail docks at the island, and he reclaims his goods ( still in the ship's hold ).

Mathews signalled for Lestock to make more sail, reluctant to start the attack with his ships still disorganised, but the slowness of Lestock to respond caused the Franco-Spanish force to start to slip away to the south.

The memorial includes a fountain and a field-stone monument with the presidential seal and JFK inscription: " I believe it is important that this country sail and not sit still in the harbor ".

One may fish with a rod and line ( only still waters ), row, sail or use a motorboat on waterways ( with certain restrictions ), and swim or bathe in both inland waters and the sea.

He implemented the plan – codenamed " Operation Catapult " – for a British fleet, coded " Force H " and based in Gibraltar, to sail to the harbor of Mers-el-Kébir, near Oran in Algeria, where four capital ships and other vessels were stationed, in order to persuade Admiral Marcel-Bruno Gensoul to disobey orders from Vichy and have his vessels sail either to British waters or else to those of French colonies in the Far East or even to the ( still neutral ) USA with a view to preventing them from being used against the Allies.

On this day, the boats with monks and priests sail to the spot where Mologa used to stand, and hold divine service in front of the upper parts of cross-crowned belfries which are still visible above the water of the artificial lake.

The ice there is still too thick to break with the sub's sail, so Swanson decides to blow a hole in the ice with a torpedo.

As the ships became larger they required larger protective harbours and the exposed Portpatrick could no longer fulfil the needs and so they moved to the shelter of Loch Ryan from where they still sail today.