When it reaches the top, Thom steers away from the wind, the enormous sail billows out to leeward and the yacht's mahogany hull digs deep into the blue-green water.
Unless valuation outstrips your modeling of the economy and specific corporate properties you then sail with the wind.
She considered taking off her coat but was afraid to move that drastically, afraid that its breadth might make a sail in the wind and pull her down.
Like ancient Polynesians who set off over the horizon in their sailing canoes without a clue where they would land, the first kitesurfers pushed out through the waves without knowing how to sail broadside to the wind.
The final reason businesses fail is simply that they sail too close to the wind.
It was like the wind had been let out of my sail.
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It forces competitors to sail west, against the wind and currents.
At sunset, with a warm wind blowing off the desert, we sail Jelal's felucca, the open boat that more than any other evokes the romance of the Nile.
The daggerboard is a type of keel beneath the boat that allows the boat to sail at an angle into the wind.
Max held the rudder steady, and the sail had a constant bellyful of wind, but as the hours passed the city grew smaller.
That lack of friction, combined with extraordinary sideways grip, means an iceboat can sail six times the speed of the wind.
When the tough sail of real governing fails to catch wind the way a campaign slogan did in the year before, a politician stands humbled.
Such a big sail would catch a lot of solar wind.
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When the wind comes out of the southwest, you have to tack the sail this way and adjust to the prevailing conditions.
Without it, the boat can only sail downwind, putting the boat and her crew at the mercy of the wind and currents.
Powered by wind, solar panels, gel batteries and a foot crank, Yrvind Ten will set sail from Ireland in a 48, 000 kilometer return journey around the globe.
The dull roar of the wind, rushing past at a speed of eight knots, punctuated by the occasional pop of the canvas sail that billows and gusts below my dangling feet.
The white "sail" at the top of each chimney, called a cowl, turned to face away from the wind to allow the smoke to be sucked out of the top of the building.
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