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"Few authors can combine both compelling characters and gripping plot. Meibers does so here - his richly-drawn Clem character is both introspective and swashbuckling, both poet and pirate.
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The Illustrated Companion to Nelson's Navy
If the sails' effect was ahead of the resistance the bow was pushed off the wind,
corrected by lee helm (the ship was slack); if reversed, with the bow pushed into
the wind, she was ardent, corrected by weather helm. When sailing into the wind
...
Nicholas Blake, Richard Lawrence, 2005
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To Harness
the Wind: A Short History of
the Development of Sails
The intent of intermingling masts with square sails and masts with fore- and-aft
sails was to obtain an optimum balance of pointing ability and speed off the wind
that would best suit the employment of the vessel. Also, crew size was a factor.
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Memoirs of
the life and services of Rear-Admiral Sir William ...
"Commander Vansittart answered, 'My opinion is, that Frolic is very superior in
moderate breezes, and Pilot in strong.'* " I beg to state, that after leaving Cork, the
wind only admitted of our trying rate of sailing off the wind, from a-beam to right ...
When the puff goes by, ease off the wind somewhat,” coached Bill. She waited for
the next puff. When it hit, she pushed the tiller over and let the boat round up into
the wind. “When the luff flutters, ease off,” yelled Bill. She pushed the boat over ...
6
Voyage of Rediscovery: A Cultural Odyssey Through Polynesia
... we were forced to unlash one of the two 18-foot-long steering paddles we keep
on deck and run the blade deep into the sea in order to hold the canoe off the
wind on the proper heading to the southwest. For virtually all the rest of the
voyage ...
He, like me, doesn't have the strength to fight off the wind; it cuts to your soul and
makes you want to die. I have prepared myself better for this storm. I have
gathered firewood and got a lot of the bear meat prepared to dry in the meat
house.
Everyone who has taken refuge from a blow on the lee side of a grove, knows
that trees keep off the wind. We know too that a wall of trees will protect tender
grain from the wind over a strip 20 times as wide as the highest of the trees. For
only ...
United States. Forest Service, Martha Bensley Bruère, 1938
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Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel ...
The first trial, being claimed by both vessels, may fairly be omitted, leaving two
trials "off the wind" in favour of the Flying-fish, and an advantage in distance (by a
mean of both reports) of 1,849 yards. On the results of the trials " Sailing by the ...
Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey, 1846
Don't you hear his horse?” I listened hard, fearing it could be someone else—one
of Captain Powell's men returning to look for us, maybe, or a marauder who'd
seen our fire. A fox barked a long way off. The wind sprang up and the tree limbs
...
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Fast conditions predicted for Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race
... forecast is right for us,” said Mark Bradford, the skipper of Peter Harburg's V70, Black Jack, which was designed for off the wind conditions. «My Sailing, 七月 15»
Scituate: Town Saving a Bundle From Renewable Energy
“Presently the town has continued to make money off the wind and solar projects. Originally we anticipated about $250,000 from each project ... «95.9 WATD-FM, 七月 15»
IMOCA 60s to test their new foils in Rolex Fastnet Race
We feel the boat is faster off the wind." A number of turboed older generation IMOCA 60s are racing including PRB of 2004 Vendee Globe ... «BYM News, 七月 15»
Sheboygan native sails 50th Mackinac race
“When they go off the wind, they're fast.” All four of Peter's children sail Mackinac races, and three are Old Goats. Three sailed on Evolution with ... «The Sheboygan Press, 七月 15»
Indian exotica
A farm worker kneels down and, fighting off the wind, grabs a thin branch with a few olives on it. Well, if this reads like the setting of a novel ... «Financial Express, 七月 15»
Renewable energy standards reconsidered as states question …
... impact of the EPA's Clean Power Plan and the growing perception that it's time to take the training wheels off the wind and solar industries. «Washington Times, 七月 15»
'I can't stand those things': Treasurer bemoans wind farm aesthetics …
Mr Andrews today accused the Federal Government of trying to kill off the wind industry. Why any prime minister would be opposed to working ... «ABC Online, 七月 15»
Up to 200 visit the Taurbeg wind farm in Rockchapel
"We had a very busy day but it was a delight to be able to show off the wind farm to the local community," she said. Throughout the day, some ... «The Corkman, 七月 15»
The Latest: Pope lands in Santa Cruz, Bolivia; heads to bed
Many tens of thousands of people are lining the motorcade route, which winds eight miles down off the wind-swept plateau into the capital ... «Miami Herald, 七月 15»
Rolex Fastnet Race: New Generation of IMOCA 60s
We feel the boat is faster off the wind.” A number of turboed older generation IMOCA 60s are racing including PRB of 2004 Vendee Globe ... «Scuttlebutt Sailing News, 七月 15»
