Sentences with phrase «like sailboat»

You'll feel more like a sailboat that's using the wind to tack and go in the direction you want to, with less effort, versus not understanding the environment and having your sailboat tossed about while you toil and fight to stay above water.

But for whatever all that is worth, I agree with Thompson — an electronic READING device without WiFi and a decent web browser is at best like a sailboat — maybe not without its charms, but just counting the days until it's made laughably obsolete by relatively obvious technology.

If your journey is likely to take you through the mountain passes of the Alps, as our drive did, you don't need to worry about your driver struggling to keep the soft suspension from rocking the car like a sailboat on the high seas.

Like most career professionals, Cortines understood that school superintendents are much like sailboat skippers, who use the prevailing winds to take them where they want to go.

And nothing says summer like a sailboat -LCB- reproduction found at a local boutique... had to have it after I saw it on Patina Farms / Velvet and Linen! -RCB-

I have always felt like a sailboat in stormy seas, landing in ports where no one understands our language.

But I know I can reorient my perception of what's going on by deliberately focusing on those things that are wonderful in my life, like a sailboat tacking to correct its course.

The waterways are also heavy with varied activity — from people who are leisurely enjoying a day on the water to folks who are fishing to motorboats toting water skiers — and different types of crafts, like sailboats, canoes, pontoon boats, and more.

Not exact matches

«It's like having a little sailboat, and you're trying to navigate the waters and figure out the best way forward.

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I liked the idea of the sailboats because we live on a lake, and their shape reminds me of Christmas trees.

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And he liked the way her profile captured her essence with details, like how she raced a storm on a sailboat and collected strawberries to make jam.

One can't help but giggle every time Geoffrey Rush appears as the hammy sun god Ra, hanging out on a space sailboat designed like a Cable Ace Awards set and shooting lasers at a giant sandworm.

Tinti is a writer gifted beyond her years, both literary in her perceptions — «the sailboat passed a cargo ship the length of an aircraft carrier, stretching across the surface like a giant guarding the edge of the world» — and possessing a thoroughgoing comprehension of the human condition, our sometimes desperate search for love and family, the rage we often feel as we stumble through our ignorance and past our fear to confront our mortality.

Joan assessed the crowd, lighting upon the most interesting: young men turning white T - shirts into art, pinching the material tight and rubber - banding each section until they looked like porcupines being dipped into huge steaming vats of colored dyes; the young woman with a bird's nest of purple hair sitting at a potter's wheel, slamming down hunks of clay, her hands moving nearly as fast as the wheel, cups, vases, plates, bowls, trays, appearing like magic; the elderly man in a worn blue linen suit, a jaunty straw boater on his head, a smeared palette tight in his hand, painting a mammoth canvas of people on a beach staring out at an ocean where a sailboat bobbed in the distance, though he himself was standing in a mowed field; the handsome young man at an old - fashioned school desk, a manual typewriter in front of him, a stack of paper to the side.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live aboard a sailboat while writing your best selling novel?

And when a homeowners insurance policy does offer coverage, it's usually limited to small boats like canoes and small sailboats or small power boats with less than 25 - mph horsepower, according to the III.

The 42 - foot sailboat you'd like to own before too many years go by is a long - term want, so it gets a four.

What is it like to live on a sailboat?

Want to know what it's like to live on a 41 ′ sailboat in the Caribbean?

In our tranquil lagoon in the Key West atrium, you'll be amazed by our 60 - foot sailboat, surrounded by stingrays and native Florida game fish like tarpon, snook and redfish.

If you look the harbor view from the Skytower, you may like to experience the harbor up close with a Sailboat Dinner Cruise that will let you look back up at the Skytower and enjoy the night cityscape.

From the sounds of my recent stay in Staniel Cay, The Bahamas, it would seem like it's a luxury holiday: pink cottage above the water, three courses for every meal, our own little boat to take out ourselves and a dock where there was always at least one luxury sailboat.

Berkeley Marina's OCSC Sailing (which stands for Olympic Circle Sailing Club) is home to the largest fleet of sailboats on the West Coast and offers a variety of day trip options, like skippered charters or picnic - based trips to Angel Island.

Your holiday at Palm Villa includes the services of a chef, butler and housekeeper, as well as the use of water sports equipment like kayaks and sailboats.

During the day you can enjoy different recreational activities like non-motorized water sports, kayaking, sailboats and a catamaran, a massage parlor, and tennis, basketball and beach volleyball courts.

You'll visit exotic locations like mermaid villages and travel via sailboat, mecha, transformable submersible tank, huge flying fortress, and drowsy giant turtle.

We go to the pub twice a week, we go to the local cheap - and - cheerful Chinese restaurant once a week, we have dumb hobbies we like to do, like taking the sailboat out on the weekend, or drawing wee cartoons.

Like much of his previous work, the 15 new paintings Yanai created for this show convey the everyday: sailboats, the sea, plants, a quiet lawn and a horseback rider are meticulously painted in vibrant horizontal stripes.

But he was also able to convey the immensity of the world outside, especially evident in compositions like «Red Sails» (1959), a minuscule sailboat sitting on a sea of orange paper topped by a pasted gray sky.

«When I was a little boy», he reminisces, «my grandmother took me to the seaside at Folkestone and we were walking along the boardwalk and it was the most beautiful day, with sailboats sailing by, billowing white clouds, stuff like that.

He sailed past the previous record of 116 mph, and into history with his innovative, sailboat - like vehicle.

Watercraft Endorsement: The watercraft endorsement extends personal liability and medical payments coverage for certain watercraft, like small sailboats and outboard motor boats.

While Mother Nature likely has the first say in whether a small boat like a yacht, a ferry, or sailboat sinks, these smaller boats can also sink for a variety of reasons including low transoms, faulty drain plugs, cooling system leaks, and more.

There are many kinds of boats and so there are all types of insurance coverage's — like personal watercraft insurance, jet boat insurance, sailboat insurance, fishing boat insurance, or house boat insurance — a boat insurance policy is what you need - then Estrella Insurance is the answer.

It would be like a small sailboat transiting between two large ocean liners.

How like opening up a sailboat after a long winter is the person who is suddenly in a job search situation.

He is listing to the right... like a happy - go - lucky sailboat caught in a crosswind just before tacking back into the prevailing wind.

Having other passions like having my advanced scuba diving certificate and sailboat racing and cruising in the Caribbean for the past 20 + years helps keep me refreshed.»

Just a few more nautical accents were added, like a driftwood garland, sailboat, glass floats and crab cage wire lantern.

I always like to include handmade things, too, so I made another sailboat using some flannel shirt material (JoAnn Fabrics) and a piece of wood and a twig Kevin and I found while we were out walking the other day...

My son's room is done in a blue nautical theme as well, and I've been looking for a sailboat like that since he was born — I guess I wasn't looking in the right places!

Kind of like a kitchenette on an old sailboat.

Introduce subtle elements of nautical decor in versatile furniture and accessories, like the woven drum table here that pays homage to a sailboat's coiled rope.