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A very large boat laden with coal on the Rhône, moored at the quay. Seen from above it was all glistening and wet from a shower; the water was a white yellow and clouded pearl-grey, the sky lilac and an orange strip in the west, the town violet. On the boat, small workmen, blue and dirty white, were coming and going, carrying the cargo ashore.
The design is pretty, and attracts admiring attention wherever she goes. Worst features: Being very heavy for her length, she won't reach hull speed under sail until the wind pipes up." [4] A 2011 staff report in Sailing Magazine described the boat, "The Flicka is like Elvis or Prince, one word and you immediately draw a mental picture. Love it ...
Sail cruise vessel 3 masted, Marconi sail Yuniy Baltiets: 1989 Saint Petersburg: Sail training vessel 2 masted; gaff fore, Marconi main [88] Zaca a te Moana (schooner) 1992 Antwerp: Pleasure-sailing boat of the Royal Belgian Sailing Club (RBSC) Fore-and-aft rig Zawisza Czarny: 1952 Gdynia: Sail training vessel 3 masted, square sail Zodiac ...
Star of India is an iron-hulled sailing ship, built in 1863 in Ramsey, Isle of Man as the full-rigged ship Euterpe.After a career sailing from Great Britain to India and New Zealand, she was renamed, re-rigged as a barque, and became a salmon hauler on the Alaska to California route.
Mr Waugh is one of 15 people worldwide taking part in the Mini Globe Race, which will see competitors sailing identical Class Globe 580 boats. He has built his 19ft (5.8m) boat, called Little Wren ...
The Mirror was from the start promoted as an affordable boat, and as a design it has done a great deal to make dinghy sailing accessible to a wide audience. Although most popular in the UK, Mirrors are also sailed in other countries, notably Australia , Ireland , Sweden , Canada , the Netherlands , South Africa , New Zealand , the Philippines ...
In early 2020, the same boat won a race retracing the tea clipper route from Hong Kong to London in just under 32 days – one-third the time it took the clippers to sail the route. [ 28 ] Hydroptère , an experimental sailing hydrofoil trimaran, briefly reached 56.3 knots (104.3 km/h; 64.8 mph) [ 29 ] near Fos-sur-Mer , but capsized and ...
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