Sentences with phrase «for sailing ships»

For sailing ships the problem is the same, a lack of horizontal wind, so they were becalmed.

By the 1500s, Christopher Columbus had figured out that the combination of trade winds and westerlies enabled a round - trip route for sailing ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

I welcome commissions for sailing ships and other working boats

After saving a young couple of the town of Baharata from the rogue Robbin» «Ood, the hero receives Black Pepper, which he trades for a sailing ship at Portoga.

Not exact matches

Frank Del Rio, president and CEO of Norwegian, cited four main reasons for revising its guidance, including «continued weak demand from our core North American consumer for European sailings at a time when half of our fleet is deployed in the region, including eight of our highest yielding ships.»

That ship, however, has sailed and casual TV games haven't done well for anyone who has tried it.

Named for Halloween, Carbone's favorite holiday, the company scares the bejesus out of willing customers at interactive events, including the Haunted Hayride (a tractor - drawn trek through the abandoned Griffith Park Zoo) and Ghost Ship (which sails out on short horror cruises).

For Canada to muddle through and ride the United States» coattails (though that ship isn't sailing as fast as hoped and the nation's beta to our neighbours to the south is waning) remains a very reasonable base - case scenario.

Container liners need their ships to sail fully loaded for maximum profitability.

Sure, housing and auto purchases using DEBT were stimulated, but that ship has sailed unless the Fed wants to give out money for down payments.

We would most likely still be sailing on wooden ships, Steamships, Trains and cars and the electric light bulb would never have been done, if were not for men like Ford, Morgan, Carnegie etc..

Verily, in the creation of the heavens and the earth and in the alternation of night and day, and in the ships which sail in the sea with that which profits men, and in the water which Allah sends down from the sky and quickens therewith the earth after its death and scatters therein all kinds of beasts, and in the change of the winds, and the clouds pressed into service between the heaven and the earth — are indeed Signs for the people who understand.

Its suggestion that our biosphere is merely so much waste matter and the human body, at best, a rather unsatisfactory ship in which the intellect has to sail, expresses an unrealistic, mindless exaltation of that intellect — narrowly conceived as searching for facts — and a corresponding contempt for natural feeling....

Perhaps inevitably, the ship listed to port for a time, but she sailed on, gradually righted herself, and now allows us to look back with some clarity on where we have come.

We should put them on a ship that is setting sail for a far away land and throw them overboard during a storm.

During the same period, the combined efforts of the U.S. Coast Guard and Navy, sailing for 2,512 ship days at a cost of $ 40 million, resulted in the seizure of a mere 20 drug - carrying vessels.

It must have been a considerable time after the Feast of the Atonement, say a month or so, that the ship's crew had risked the cruise from Fair Ravens to Phoenix; for after such an ordeal as they had been through, they would not have undertaken to sail again until spring of the next year.

Boston's seaport hosted a dozen «tall ships» — huge wooden sailing ships used for training — from around the world.

About 350 years ago, Cape Town began as the halfway provisioning stop for ships sailing between Europe and Asia.

For a drinks supplier, missing a cruise ship delivery is like letting a major contract sail away into the sunset.

Inconceivably, just days after this mass slaughter, another ship laden with Australian sheep was allowed to set sail for Jordan.

A lot of us were hoping for Pep Guardiola or Jurgen Klopp but those ships have sailed and neither Thierry henry or Patrick Vieira are ready to take on such a massive job.

In August of 1730 a capital Spanish ship, officially called Nuestra Se √ ± ora del Carmen but commonly called La Genovésa, sailed for Spain from Cartagena with $ 3 million worth of gold and silver.

«Trim ship, Ernie,» I snapped, and abandoned the tiller to trim ship also, for the boat lay on her side with the sail in the water.

to @sevenitti Lacazette has already signed for PSG, so that ship has sailed, Jackson Martinez will join to AC Milan so what's left: Higuaín, compared to Girould he's world class, no doubt of it.

The following day 26 tall ships assembled for the Parade of Sail into Boston Harbor.

The Quincentenary race marked the first ocean crossing for most of the crew members — certainly their first one on a sailing ship — and the voyage was filled with delightful surprises.

The veterans define terms for recruits, the Wisconsin grads on the staff — offensive coordinator Joe Rudolph, defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard, tight ends coach Mickey Turner, strength coach Ross Kolodziej, etc. — serve as proof of concept, and the ship keeps sailing.

Neil - I am convinced of what you have written.There is no way at all the Agent of ANY top player would NOT ASK THE QUESTION REGARDING THE MANAGER.The whole of world football knows we are declining rapidly.The Agent is there for his client and would have no doubt demanded assurances the sinking ship that has been Wengers fault will soon be Captained by someone that will sail her into steady and calmer waters.Ivan Gazidis is no fool.He would have expected these questions and would have needed to convince him change WILL happen.Wengers demise is there for all to see.The arrogance of this man will be his own undoing.Gazidis has a tough job on his hands but by getting Aubameyang to sign was the first sign of the change that was inevitable.His Agent was obviously convinced.Now we need to trust Gazidis to implement the drastic overhaul that will be required.

For me it is not just about buying players -(that ship has sailed); it is getting the balance of the team right and right now we have got it horribly wrong.

If, as I strongly doubt, there was ever any intention to try for Mahrez, that ship has long since sailed and Wenger must know that better than anyone.

At 15, Joe was roaming the docks and wharves from ship to ship, looking for boots and shoes to shine — and was smart enough to tote along a suitcaseful of shoestrings, pencils, sailing caps, buttons and thread.

We fixed our ship and we are sailing for the league title.

Bill Blankenship kept the ship sailing for two years before falling off, but Philip Montgomery needed almost no time at all to get the program back on course.

Instead of sailing majestically through to the quarter finals the good ship Arsenal was out on its ear, like a dude being invited to clear off by the club doorman for unsuccessfully groping the big blond.

This is the time of the year when Arsenal, and every other club, seem to be caught in the footballing equivalent of the doldrums, once the bane of every sailing ship known to man, where a relatively calm period occurs out of nowhere, and during which time no wind has the temerity to stick its nose in, and indeed prefers to disappear like ice cream in a hot oven, trapping sailing ships for lengthy periods lasting days, weeks and sometimes months, where for what seemed an eternity to their crews — nothing happened.

No matter what Wenger has done for this club it does not give him a lifetime pass to the managers job and 8m a year, we as a club are sailing into dangerous waters and with Greedy Stan and Wenger sailing the ship there's every chance we, l remain also rans with a history,

It's fair to say that Simon Mignolet's ship has sailed at Liverpool and the club will be looking for a replacement in the summer.

I'm grateful to Disney Cruise Lines for inviting us on a preview sailing of their newest ship, the Disney Fantasy, as this busy break from reality allowed us to escape from winter's doldrums and provided me the impetus to create a new Cruising section of Have Baby Will Travel.

Large enough for multiple children, this sandbox is built around the concept of a pirate ship, complete with steering wheel, parrot detail, shaded canopy «sail,» and pirate flag.

We've tried to sail on cruise ships that had mini refrigerators which came in handy for storing milk and juices.

Floating Hospital for Children began as a hospital ship sailing the Boston Harbor for the first time in 1894.

It has been learnt that the PPA should have been spread over a period of 20 years and thereby reduce the burden on consumers, unlike the 10 - year deal negotiated for the KARPOWER ship, which can sail at any time, to leave Ghana into darkness.

Such a voyage is a straight shot westward and would take about 3 weeks of daytime sailing at typical Viking ship speeds (which, for the uninformed, is about 11 kilometers per hour).

The black striped mussel, for example, first made its way from the Caribbean to the Pacific by attaching to ships» hulls and sailing through the canal, built in 1915.

Conceivably, the drones could sail in circles around a virtual mooring point, or run other preplanned patterns, before returning to port every year for cleaning — no ships necessary.

On the basis of the speeds Min of the Desert reached on its experimental voyage, Ward estimates that the endeavor would have taken at least four months, and probably more: a month to assemble the ships, a month to sail to Punt, a month and a half or more to sail back against the prevailing winds, and a month to disassemble the ships and prepare for the trek back across the desert.

Johannes Kepler alluded to this prospect in a 1610 letter to Galileo: «With ships or sails built for heavenly winds, some will venture into that great vastness.»

It works like this: a ship sails along a straight line for 100 kilometres or more, and uses airguns to send an acoustic signal every 50 metres while the ship sails along.

Price said the need for slaves may have begun during the Vendel era, when the fast - growing fleet of ships demanded an enormous number of massive woolen sails.