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Sentence Examples The aircraft had to ditch in the North Sea and all six crew members were able to scramble out and into a dinghy. They managed to get the 120 lb harbour porpoise into a water-filled rubber dinghy, after it twice gave them the slip. Whether bobbing about on a dinghy or crossing the oceans on a Tall Ship, one can learn the mechanics of piloting and navigating. On the water ducks and coots patrolled the margins and further out was a dinghy. Fitz smiled at this, remembering his own boyhood dreams as he'd sailed a small dinghy and thought of bigger boats. A sailor was left fuming after thieves stole the inflatable dinghy he had used to get from his boat to shore. Toby brought the dinghy under the cruiser's stern, spilling the wind as he did so. All was going well until we spotted a dinghy rowing towards us on the open waves. Sir, get your dinghy launched and prepare to abandon ship if your boat is sinking. We go ashore by dinghy at a pretty stone jetty surrounded by dense trees and rhododendron bushes. But he managed to right the dinghy and get ashore to rescue the canoeists and bring them back on board the lifeboat. Horrified onlookers could only watch, as an offshore wind blew their flimsy dinghy vessel, into deeper water. After setting anchor, the holiday makers board their dinghy and make their way over to the harbour-side restaurant of Augusta Insula. Fortunately for us, an offshore sailing dinghy race hove into view, half a dozen racing dinghies screaming downwind. The body of a young woman is found floating attached to a deflated dinghy in the Adriatic. Between the keelboat and dinghy fleets at Dundee's Royal Tay Yacht Club yesterday more than 40 entries took to the water. One side of the island has a terrific beach and a large lagoon, with windsurfing, water bikes, dinghy sailing, and safe bathing. We haul our camera and camping gear, all 600 pounds of it, onto a tiny rubber dinghy and putter out to his boat. One of the airmen landed in the river still in his ejector seat but was able to deploy his dinghy, while the other drifted off downriver. The most unusual form of transport was a dinghy pressed into service by Bedford Rotary Club, who traveled some 40Km to Brampton. Show More Sentences Meanwhile, two young boys, aged 8 and 13, had a lucky escape yesterday afternoon when they were carried out to sea on an inflatable dinghy. At the Grenada Yacht Club on the eastern side of town, yachtsmen were gathered for a morning of dinghy sailing. You can tie up your own tender at the dinghy docks or go ashore in one of the harbor launches. But since this is a real dinghy when assembled, there is no reason any dinghy style leeboard would not work. Standard equipment includes a 500-lb, capacity davit for raising and lowering a dinghy to the flybridge. Once when they tried to frighten it off, it seized the drogue rope and gave the dinghy a spin. Every form of sailing imaginable is on offer here, from beginners' dinghy lessons on the lake-like waters of North Sound to fully crewed yachts. At the same time another aircraft with floats fitted landed near the dinghy and picked up the crew and flew off. He took the fateful decision to jump from the dinghy and swim for the shore but did not make it, despite being a strong swimmer and fit. These are three towering water chutes, in varying levels of steepness, down which you plunge in a rubber dinghy. In her frantic efforts to climb back onto the dinghy, her claws ripped a hole in the gunwale. We anchor alone in the lee of the cay, pile into the inflatable dinghy, don our masks and fins, and spend the next hour swimming with dolphins. With a practised flip, he righted the dinghy and held it steady while we clambered aboard. In the meantime, some visiting boats anchor out in the roadstead and their crews dinghy in to the adjacent, landlocked municipal marina. On his retirement in 1992, CDRE McKay was rowed across the lake in a Navy dinghy. The La Malouine was nearest and proceeded to attempt to pick up the crew that by this time were in their rubber dinghy. Standing a moment longer on the shore he watches the dinghy, until it tacks out of sight on the far side of the broad bay, heading for harbour. There is a large lake in the landscaped gardens, with two islands, a dinghy and lakeside summerhouse with its own jetty alongside. She had wide interests, was a keen dinghy sailor and took an active part in youth welfare. The access dinghy he uses to sail is controlled by a hand operated joystick, allowing him a freedom of movement he lacks on land. Show More Sentences We did dinghy drill in the harbour and this usually finished with us swimming around in the beautifully clear waters of this sheltered haven. Two men cheated death when they were rescued from freezing floodwaters after their dinghy capsized near Selby. So why would any person in their right mind nail their colours to the mast of a leaky dinghy rather than a majestic tall ship? I've crossed that distance by dinghy, kayak, tiny sailboat and a little rowboat with an outboard. Three years ago, after a serious heart attack while manning a dinghy in a frostbite race, Shields was beached from competition by his doctors. Being no flimsy dinghy, this sailboat required a lot of muscle to set so much sail. Some other members were on hand to demonstrate how to rig the sails on a sailing dinghy and show the layout of a boat to the trainees. During the hustle of everyone getting underway someone tripped the anchor that we used to stabilize our dinghy. The other way to utilize your light tackle is fishing from your dinghy. First, as companies go, Carnival is more like an aircraft carrier than a dinghy. With bigger vessels unfortunately absent, the society turned to plan B, launching five smaller boats into the quay, including a 1943 vintage dinghy used by the Royal Navy. Officials said they believed Wood slipped off the yacht when she went on deck to reattach a dinghy that came loose. Coral heads, reef sharks and parrot fish shimmer beneath a plane of water so translucent, that a dinghy moored there not so much floats as levitates. Lifesavers have issued a stark safety warning after a family's frolics ended in the desperate rescue of a small child whose rubber dinghy was swept out to sea. Even if you don't fancy the idea of living in a rock house without windows just a few feet from the ocean, Moonhole is well worth a visit either by dinghy or taxi. Ian was obviously free to intubate every young lady he saw, and Cait would never harbor the flimsiest dinghy of a grievance. The dinghy has three sails and a trapeze, which allows Katherine to lean out of the boat on a wire to counteract the force of the sails and keep the boat upright. The first outboard motor boats on the reef were made, according to local legend, by returned World War I servicemen, by lashing a Ford engine to the back of a dinghy. As the dinghy approaches the shores of North Avon Island, flocks of sooty and noddy terns swirl up and wheel above the dinghy, squawking loudly at our intrusion. I'd say the boat is virtually viceless and a treat to sail, handling like a big dinghy but stable like a larger boat, with a huge cockpit to match. Show More Sentences On the north-east coast, Royal Findhorn Yacht Club's race officials were thwarted by unfavourable tides and dying wind for day one of their dinghy regatta. After dark, we could hear the sound of oars of an approaching dinghy. Laundry was strung on a line across the bow, and on the tarred roll roofing an old dinghy was lashed down, painted with the same lavish decor as her mother ship. But not everyone who visits this exclusive little port considers it prudent to spend the equivalent of the cost of a clinker-built dinghy on a single night's accommodation. This is a crane that's been designed by Chris Mitchell, what he calls an access dinghy system, and this is the crane that he uses off the pontoons, yes. As he finished fastening the dinghy in its davits Rose came alongside. You could almost be looking up from a dinghy at the prow of a great ship. Yet Emma has just returned to her roots, sailing a dinghy in the Clyde with a 15-year-old girl from Helensburgh Sailing Club, and professes to have enjoyed every minute of it. As I looked at these tremendous pedal extremities, I mused that I sail a dinghy, not much bigger than his boots, on the open waters of the Gulf of Thailand. A friend invited me to go sailing in a dinghy, again on a stormy day. He's really in a dinghy, its mast little taller than its sole occupant! Moroccan authorities said last week that the suspects planned to sail a dinghy loaded with explosives from Morocco into the strait to attack the vessels. The lifeboat located four kayakers, who had landed at a cove east of Spain tower, and the lifeboat launched an inflatable dinghy to rescue the stranded kayakers. As the two crewmen parachuted into the sea, the back part of their ejection seats fell away and the bottom part turned into an inflatable dinghy as they hit the water. His group set off aboard a rubber dinghy, but was never heard from again. The men used an inflatable dinghy to row alongside the SeaFrance vessel as she prepared to leave Calais and then climbed on to a metal fender 6ft above the water level. And Tynemouth RNLI was called to a capsized sailing dinghy with two people on board. Sailors have choices ranging from an 8-foot lapstrake dinghy to a traditional 17-foot dory. It was founded in 1949 and helped develop the popularity of the GP14 dinghy class. The lake is home to the West Lancashire Yacht Club and Southport Sailing Club, both of which organise dinghy racing. Show More Sentences Ryan was found floating facedown in the sea 500 yards from shore by the couple in the racing dinghy who tried unsuccessfully to revive him. This wacky flying machine is a combination of a hang-glider, an air-craft propeller all built on a light-weight inflatable dinghy. His family endured a terrifying crossing from Turkey in a dinghy before heading for Mytilini last week. This can only be done if the vessel is designed for this, as in dinghy sailing. It tells the story of the Walker children, who sail a dinghy named Swallow, and the Blackett children, who sail a dinghy named Amazon. People can take a trip in a sailing dinghy with an instructor for PS1 per person from 10am to 4pm. Participants can learn some basic skills before taking the helm of a sailing dinghy alongside a fully-qualified instructor. Activities include pedalo, kayak, rowing boat and sailing dinghy hire as well as raft building and sailing on the River Clwyd. Recent rescues include saving two men from a sinking dinghy and helping a water scooter rider who had run out of fuel. He is coached by David Howlett, who raced a Finn dinghy at the 1976 Summer Olympics. A week later I was at a boatshow admiring a pretty little fibreglass dinghy, complete with faux lapstrake 'planks' and a wineglass transom, but without fittings for oars. Tell me more A land yacht looks like a sailing dinghy on wheels. The Royal Lymington Yacht Club, founded in the 1920s as the Lymington River Sailing Club, now has over 3000 members and runs major keelboat and dinghy events. The purchase includes over 100 titles that cover a range of nautical pastimes, including cruising, racing, motorboating, yacht and dinghy racing and surfing. One of the most common dinghy hulls in the world is the Laser hull. The Salcombe Yawl is a classic sailing dinghy from the Salcombe estuary. Their small sailing dinghy capsized, spilling them into the sea. The Callums later acquire a dinghy of their own, the Scarab. Raising the dinghy centreboard can reduce heeling by allowing more leeway. Examples from Classical Literature A man in the stern of the dinghy groaned, and slumped down into the bottom. Then somebody who had a dinghy that he did not want asked her if she would like to have a boat. Then, with a start, he remembered his own dinghy, and how it would betray him. In the state of the sea, to get on board the drogher from the dinghy, was an operation too dangerous to be attempted. Greer moved instantly to the rope ladder where the dinghy was tied. We in the dinghy, as well as those on board, were listening anxiously. We gave way with a vigour that seemed to lift the dinghy out of the water. The footage shows migrants jumping off their deflating dinghy to catch life preservers tossed into the water by Zeran crew members. We arrived on that side and slept the night, we had to inflate the dinghy and we were on the sea for over an hour. I believe he had seen us out of the window coming off to dine in the dinghy of a fourteen-ton yawl belonging to Marlow my host and skipper. But the two clambered into the half-seen dinghy and pushed off. Wagner previously said she may have fallen into the water while trying to retie a dinghy that had slipped free of the boat. Madden followed, trusting not to hit the dinghy and kill himself. Firefighters used a boat hook and an inflatable dinghy to bring the bird to safety before handing it over to welfare officers. The motor boat owner just watched in dismay as half of his dinghy floated by, the bow section still made fast to the stern. Granet scrambled down into a small dinghy which was tied to the side of the stone wall. The disturbing image was taken after the dinghy they were in with 70 other migrants deflated 100 metres from shore, having travelled from Turkey. One woman was sucked underneath the ferry as her dinghy sank, before two other dinghies behind her were also tipped over. The crew had thought she would founder and had made for the Norwegian coast in the dinghy. One woman had slipped into the depths and a man had jumped in to help her but the resourceful bobby used a dinghy to rescue the drowning pair. Show More Sentences Set up by Italy's well known Malingri di Bagnolo family, the RAK Sailing Academy is well equipped with a dinghy, catamaran, and fix keel sailing boats for juniors and seniors. Find more words! 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