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    Sailing craft and their rigs Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the water (sailing ship,...
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  • "Sailing, Sailing" is a song written in 1880 by Godfrey Marks, a pseudonym of British organist and composer James Frederick Swift (1847–1931). It is also...
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    The sport of sailing involves a variety of competitive sailing formats that are sanctioned through various sailing federations and yacht clubs. Racing...
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    The mast of a sailing vessel is a tall spar, or arrangement of spars, erected more or less vertically on the centre-line of a ship or boat. Its purposes...
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    Sail plans A sailing ship is a sea-going vessel that uses sails mounted on masts to harness the power of wind and propel the vessel. There is a variety...
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    Tail sailing refers to the action of whales lifting their tails clear of the water for long periods of time. The process is rarely observed by humans...
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    "Sailing By" is a short piece of light music composed by Ronald Binge in 1963, which is used before the late Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio 4. A slow...
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    Tacking or coming about is a sailing maneuver by which a sailing craft (sailing vessel, ice boat, or land yacht), whose next destination is into the wind...
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  • Look up sailing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sailing is the practice of navigating a sail-powered craft on water, ice, or land. Sailing or Sailin'...
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  • Sailing competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics are scheduled to be held from July 28th to August 8th at Marseille Marina. The number of sailors competing...
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    World Sailing (WS) is the world governing body for the sport of sailing recognized by the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic...
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    Yacht (redirect from Motor sailing yacht)
    A yacht (/jɒt/) is a sailing or power vessel used for pleasure, cruising, or racing. There is no standard definition, though the term generally applies...
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  • "Sailing" is a song composed by Gavin Sutherland of the Sutherland Brothers in 1972, best known as a 1975 international hit for Rod Stewart. "Sailing"...
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  • Sailing to Philadelphia is the second solo studio album by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler, released on 25 September 2000 by Vertigo...
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    Sailboat (redirect from Sailing boat)
    sailboat or sailing boat is a boat propelled partly or entirely by sails and is smaller than a sailing ship. Distinctions in what constitutes a sailing boat...
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    Sailing stones (also called sliding rocks, walking rocks, rolling stones, and moving rocks) are part of the geological phenomenon in which rocks move...
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    Land sailing, also known as sand yachting, land yachting or dirtboating, entails overland travel with a sail-powered vehicle, similar to sailing on water...
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  • list of Olympic medalists in sailing. List of Olympic medalists in sailing by discipline List of Olympic medalists in sailing by class "Olympic Medal Winners"...
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    On a sailing boat, the shrouds are pieces of standing rigging which hold the mast up from side to side. There is frequently more than one shroud on each...
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    Sailing Yacht A is a sailing yacht launched in 2015. The vessel is a sail-assisted motor yacht designed by Philippe Starck (exteriors and interiors) and...
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  • Wikisource has original text related to this article: Sailing to Byzantium "Sailing to Byzantium" is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in...
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    England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) is one of the seven conferences affiliated with the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) that...
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  • This article details the qualifying phase for sailing at the 2024 Summer Olympics. 312 quota places for the Games are entitled to the sailors coming from...
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    In sailing, a sheet is a line (rope, cable or chain) used to control the movable corner(s) (clews) of a sail. In nautical usage the term "sheet" is applied...
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  • Rooster Sailing Ltd is a sailing wear company based in England. Rooster was founded in 1999 by Steve Cockerill, a British dinghy sailor in the Graduate...
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    Dinghy sailing is the activity of sailing small boats by using five essential controls: the sails the foils (i.e. the daggerboard or centreboard and rudder...
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  • Below Deck Sailing Yacht is an American reality television series that was developed as the second spin-off of Below Deck. It premiered on Bravo on February...
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    mid-16th (or mid-15th) to the mid-19th centuries, in which the dominance of sailing ships in global trade and warfare culminated, particularly marked by the...
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    A point of sail is a sailing craft's direction of travel under sail in relation to the true wind direction over the surface. The principal points of sail...
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    the context, either just a large vessel or specifically a ship-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts, each of which is square-rigged. As of 2016...
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