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Sentence Examples They were positioned to the port side of the nose at our ten o'clock, in order to remain clear of the 3-wire's bight on the retract. Leaf headed his boat around to the small bight where the large power boat was tied, manoeuvred up to her and rafted alongside. Pete finally settled on an arrangement that he was happy with, consisting of a butterfly and a long loop leading to a bowline on the bight. The offshore waters are typically tempestuous, but winds in the channel's eastern bight will be only 10 to 15 knots. Couldn't see the mountains but Lake Taupo and the Taranaki bight were visible. It's a blustery day on Humble Island, a tiny speck of rock tucked into a bight on the south end of Anvers Island, Antarctica. Most of ours live aboard vessels moored more or less permanently outside the marina breakwater, in a shallow bight known as Fools' Anchorage. We'll go back around the point and into that last small bight we passed on our way here. The next major incident I had with fire was at a primary school blue bight disco. The southern California bight region, Baja peninsula and waters offshore of central California are emerging as major regions of bluefin tuna residency. A bowline is made by laying the rope's end over its standing part to form a bight over the end, then taking the end around behind the standing part and through the bight. When used as a sling to raise or lower a person, the bowline on a bight, made by doubling the rope on itself, is more comfortable than a simple bowline. Noting the apparent fit of the bulge of eastern South America into the bight of Africa, the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt theorized about 1800 that the lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean had once been joined. I spied a bight of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river. A variant, the running bowline, is used to make a lasso, and another variant, the bowline on a bight, can be comfortably used as a sling to raise or lower a person seated in the loop. For some time, there were three permanent connecting branches and one flood bed between the river and the bight, forming an estuarine delta. To make an overhanded knot, you pass the end of the rope over the standing part and through the bight. A piece of rope has an eye spliced in one end, and several over-handed knots made on the bight, at equal distances from each other. One will assess demersal scalefish stocks along WA s south coast, focusing on the indicator species bight redfish, pink snapper, blue groper and blue morwong. Trawl fisheries catch jack mackerel in other areas including the Taranaki Bight and Chatham Rise. Show More Sentences Bight on Cabernet's heels are Merlot and, in the cooler, southern end of the valley, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. I wanted the boat for crayfishing in a newly-found ground in the North Taranaki Bight. This paper is an annotated list of deep-sea fish species found in the northern Mid-Atlantic Bight and northwards to the Scotian continental slope. Foraminifer proxies of oxygenation suggest low oxygen conditions in several hot spots in the Mississippi Bight. Quotas also apply to school and gummy shark bycatch in the South East Trawl and Great Australian Bight Trawl fisheries. Major battles included the Battle of Heligoland Bight, the Battle of the Dogger Bank, and the Battle of Jutland. In the German Bight, colonies exist off the islands Sylt and Amrum and on Heligoland. The Danish Wadden Sea Islands and the German North Frisian Islands stretch along the southwest coast of Jutland in the German Bight. In the beginning of 16th Century, all countries around Jade Bight were conquered by the Counts of Oldenburg. Tidal flows make the neck of Jade Bight the deepest natural channel near Germany's North Sea coast. The foreshore areas of Jade Bight form a part of the German Wadden Sea National Parks. The Wadden Sea National Parks in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands are located along the German Bight of the North Sea. The first sea battle, the Battle of Heligoland Bight took place on 28 August 1914 and ended in a clear British victory. On 19 January, Beatty had reconnoitred the area west of the German Bight and been seen by a German aircraft. The Great Australian Bight was unnamed in the 1928 edition, and delineated as shown in the figure above in the 1937 edition. The coast off South California is the area of highest rockfish diversity, with 56 species living in the Southern California Bight. The coastline on the gulf includes the Bight of Benin and the Bight of Bonny. Still other definitions of the ocean boundaries would have Tasmania with the Great Australian Bight to the west, and the Tasman Sea to the east. Other major slaving ports in Nigeria were located in Badagry, Lagos on the Bight of Benin and on Bonny Island on the Bight of Biafra. Interspecific investigations of odontocete behavioral ecology are rare and no such studies have been conducted in the Southern California Bight. Show More Sentences Proximality trends in modern storm sands from the Helgoland Bight and their implications for basin analysis. The Weser enters the North Sea in the southernmost part of the German Bight. In this paper we provide results of the taxonomic study of planktonic foraminiferal assemblages from sediments across the KwaZulu-Natal Bight. Demographic parameters of yellowfin croaker, Umbrina roncador, from the southern California Bight. The First Battle of Heligoland Bight was the first naval battle of the First World War, fought on 28 August 1914, between the United Kingdom and Germany. German Bight, west or northwest gale 8 to storm 10, imminent. The Baltic Sea is connected by artificial waterways to the White Sea via the White Sea Canal and to the German Bight of the North Sea via the Kiel Canal. Examples from Classical Literature Peaks, on the main topmast-stay, caught Howe in the very act of passing the gasket through the bight of the buntline. On a bight of this rope, between the block and the bitt, the accumulator was lashed. A bight is first formed and an overhand knot made with the end around the standing part. Then take the rein, double it, pass the bight of it through the terret, with the loop over the bearing-rein hook. A bight signifies a bay or sinuosity, on the border of any large mass or body of ice. Take a half-hitch over the end of each bight with the standing part which is next to it. The near packer now engages around front boot of aparejo the free portion of the running rope below the bight just formed. A Magnus hitch has two round turns and one on the other side of the standing part with the end through the bight. They wont bight nor jaw back, but they feal az raw and kold az the yelk ov an egg. One end of which was secured by a bight of the trysail brailing. He towed his ark around the Solano Wharf and into the big bight at Turner's Shipyard. It wouldn't be nice, and I might lose an hour in the bight on my way out with the tide. The bight of the pack-rope under the dead man's shoulders enabled him to heave the body out of the hole. All busy preparing for a start for the Head of the bight to-morrow. On the 28th of August came the battle off the bight of Helgoland. But at the last moment he managed to clutch the bight of the hanging rope. Now slip the bight of the lanyard over your neck, and follow me. A further involution makes what is termed a bowline on a bight. A bight or corner, as Herne Bay, so called from lying in an angle. Can we make the auld place within the bight of the Mays Water? Show More Sentences Harry had already made a bowline in a bight at the end of a line. It is situated in the bight of the bay, eastward of Bonthian. Then, a hooked iron rod, thrust through the bars, caught and drew the bight of his trailing rope into the hands of the men outside. Bosun's mate, take a bight of the flying-jib sheet, and start this villain if he doesn't confess his sins double quick, ' said the British captain. One is told that to-day there are dialects in the Bight of Heligoland and among the faroes which are peculiar to a single family. The Bight of Helgoland is the passage about eighteen miles wide between the island and the German coast. Large brass pans used in the Bight of Biafra for obtaining salt. Thus the Centaur, light cruiser, was mined in the Bight of Heligoland. Bight hours was the time Mr. Gladstone permitted himself to sleep. It has a seacoast of about 200 miles on the Bight of Biafra. On the 26th November, 1825, the expedition arrived in the Bight of Benin. The rain came down as it can come only in the Bight of Benin. This flourishes in Dahomey, and along the whole of the Bight of Benin. The battle of Heligoland Bight was named after a stretch of water off Germany's major North Sea base of Wilhemshaven. Find more words! 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