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  • Sailing — is the art of controlling a sailing vessel. By changing the rigging, rudder and dagger or centre board, a sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails in order to change the direction and speed of a boat. Mastery of the skill requires… …   Wikipedia

  • Sailing Directions — is a 47 volume American navigation publication published by the Defense Mapping Agency Hydrographic/Topographic Center. Sailing Directions consists of 37 Enroute volumes and 10 Planning Guides. Planning Guides describe general features of ocean… …   Wikipedia

  • Sailing in Anguilla — has a long and deep history, and is one of the defining characteristics of the island. The history of Anguillian sailing is often indistinguishable from the history of the island itself. Sailing craft date back to the Taino and Arawak peoples who …   Wikipedia

  • Sailing to Byzantium — is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in the 1928 collection The Tower . It comprises four stanzas in ottava rima, each made up of eight ten syllable lines. It depicts a portion of an old man’s journey to Constantinople. Through this …   Wikipedia

  • Sailing By — is a short piece of light music composed by Ronald Binge in 1963, which is familiar to British radio listeners.Context and usage Sailing By is played every night on BBC Radio 4 at around 00:45hrs before the late Shipping Forecast. Its tune is… …   Wikipedia

  • Sailing Alone Around the World — (1899) is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum about his single handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray . Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone, the book was an immediate success and highly influential in inspiring …   Wikipedia

  • Sailing weather prediction — art of weather forecasting and routing for adventurers and competitive sailors.Weather forecasting for sailing involves several activities such as weather training and coaching, dissimination of data for use in navigation and route planning… …   Wikipedia

  • Sailing faster than the wind — Devices that are powered by sails (such as sailboats, iceboats and sand yachts) can sail (that is, advance over the surface) faster than the wind.[1] Such devices cannot do this when sailing dead downwind using simple square sails that are set… …   Wikipedia

  • sailing — /say ling/, n. 1. the activity of a person or thing that sails. 2. the departure of a ship from port: The cruise line offers sailings every other day. 3. Navig. any of various methods for determining courses and distances by means of charts or… …   Universalium

  • Sailing stones — A sailing stone in Racetrack Playa. Sailing stones, sliding rocks, and moving rocks all refer to a geological phenomenon where rocks move in long tracks along a smooth valley floor without human or animal intervention. They have been recorded and …   Wikipedia

  • Sailing to Philadelphia — Infobox Album | Name = Sailing to Philadelphia Type = Album Artist = Mark Knopfler Released = September 26 2000 Recorded = 2000 Genre = Rock, Country Length = 64:40 Label = Warner Bros. Records (US) Mercury Records Producer = Mark Knopfler, Chuck …   Wikipedia

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