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,... 75 KB (9,746 words) - 01:19, 18 April 2024 |
"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... 3 KB (441 words) - 00:58, 29 May 2022 |
The sport of sailing involves a variety of competitive sailing formats that are sanctioned through various sailing federations and yacht clubs. Racing... 16 KB (1,952 words) - 15:19, 16 March 2024 |
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... 20 KB (2,521 words) - 09:30, 15 April 2024 |
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... 75 KB (7,888 words) - 11:22, 3 April 2024 |
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... 2 KB (162 words) - 16:30, 22 October 2023 |
"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... 4 KB (514 words) - 14:19, 30 March 2024 |
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... 16 KB (1,905 words) - 09:45, 10 March 2024 |
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'... 993 bytes (138 words) - 18:50, 9 July 2023 |
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... 13 KB (659 words) - 20:13, 2 March 2024 |
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... 39 KB (4,409 words) - 21:21, 24 April 2024 |
"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"... 27 KB (1,295 words) - 20:36, 4 March 2024 |
Sailing to Philadelphia is the second solo studio album by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler, released on 25 September 2000 by Vertigo... 22 KB (1,653 words) - 07:42, 31 March 2024 |
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... 14 KB (1,770 words) - 06:26, 14 April 2024 |
Sailing stones (also called sliding rocks, walking rocks, rolling stones, and moving rocks) are part of the geological phenomenon in which rocks move... 26 KB (3,232 words) - 06:05, 22 November 2023 |
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"... 854 bytes (35 words) - 09:13, 21 October 2021 |
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... 2 KB (217 words) - 16:38, 22 October 2023 |
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... 10 KB (769 words) - 00:11, 17 March 2024 |
Wikisource has original text related to this article: Sailing to Byzantium "Sailing to Byzantium" is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in... 10 KB (1,318 words) - 12:19, 11 April 2024 |
England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) is one of the seven conferences affiliated with the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) that... 18 KB (835 words) - 12:22, 1 August 2023 |
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... 56 KB (562 words) - 20:38, 29 April 2024 |
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... 4 KB (588 words) - 18:00, 22 June 2022 |
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... 2 KB (95 words) - 15:33, 12 April 2024 |
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... 89 KB (2,737 words) - 16:33, 18 April 2024 |
Age of Sail (redirect from Era of Sailing Ships) 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... 12 KB (1,282 words) - 11:53, 14 February 2024 |
Point of sail (redirect from Points of sailing) 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... 20 KB (2,566 words) - 03:18, 11 January 2024 |
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... 99 KB (11,599 words) - 21:30, 24 April 2024 |