| Sailing in nearly the opposite direction, that is, tacking close-hauled into this headwind, is a French ship. |
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| The third race proved the most exciting with some contestants taking a close-hauled course to the windward mark and others taking the faster, but longer, broader course. |
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| She keeps everything close-hauled, says nothing and reveals nothing as she goes along. |
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| In that instant, however, Brad was smartly bearing away to cut astern of a close-hauled Mercury with another urchin in command. |
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| Her speed under sail was not particularly impressive: 9 kn close-hauled and 11 kn large. |
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| At noon, Endymion, being the much better sailer, was close-hauled, outpacing her squadron and leaving them behind. |
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| This is a rather comforting result, when we see that this stretch of close-hauled upwind sailing is going to last a good week. |
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| This should take him around a day, as Safran is currently averaging 11.7 knots on this long stretch sailing close-hauled on the starboard tack. |
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| After a first week spent mainly sailing close-hauled, it was now time for a drag race sailing downwind. |
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| We've certainly got an advantage today, especially as Groupama 3 has a superior speed capacity when sailing close-hauled. |
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| After that this NW'ly wind will shift round to the West for three hours at which point we'll have to sail close-hauled. |
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| Now out of the doldrums, the leading 60' monohulls are sailing close-hauled in a trade wind currently blowing from the south south east at around twenty knots. |
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| The trimaran is flying along close-hauled, past the Costa del Sol. |
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| We'll have to perform a change of tack within that system, so as we can head towards the ice gate close-hauled on starboard tack. |
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| However, it certainly wasn't the end of the close-hauled sailing in light winds because immediately after the vast stormy zone, the next obstacle to be negotiated was already in position. |
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| Today I think we were a little notch above the others when sailing close-hauled, because when we've wanted to accelerate in relation to the fleet we've managed to pull it off. |
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| In order to do this, 2 close-hauled tacks must be carried out, one at starboard, one at port, and the system then automatically calculates the new offset. |
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| When reaching, SAFRAN is very strong, and close-hauled she hits hard. |
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| They were slow under sail, only 6.5 kn, partly due to the drag of the twin screws, and their shallow draft and flat bottom meant that they were leewardly when close-hauled. |
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| Since rounding Cape Horn, Groupama 3 has been sailing on port tack, alternating between phases of close-hauled sailing and reaching, in line with the fluctuations between the N and the NW'ly wind. |
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| Jibs proved handy in helping to steer and were much valued e.g., on the square-rigger, as a means of better close-hauled sailing and of setting extra sail with comparatively little labour demand. |
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| The boat heeled hard to leeward as we beat close-hauled into a stiff easterly breeze, then leveled off rounding the sea buoy and headed north on a starboard tack. |
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| After a few hours of sailing close-hauled, the trimaran will once again be able to pick up the pace with beam winds, which will remain moderate, on navigable seas. |
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| Point of sailing of the moment, close-hauled, getting near the borders to go up and to look for the flow of west wind that Romain Lucat and Yves Parlier showed me. |
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| Moving from an upwind point of sail, close-hauled to a quartering wind, breeze on the back, the two sailors will be able to lengthen their stride. |
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