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• With their secluded anchorages and bights, Anacapa and the other Channel Islands fairly beckon sailboat skippers.
• Bights of buntline and other ropes were dangling from above, only waiting to be swung from. The Blue Lagoon: a romance
• The mizzen-topsail, which was a comparatively new sail and close reefed, split from head to foot in the bunt; the foretopsail went in one rent from clew to caring, and was blowing to tatters; one of the chain bobstays parted; the spritsailyard sprung in the slings, the martingale had slued away off to leeward; and owing to the long dry weather the lee rigging hung in large bights at every lurch. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11
• bight," which gave us, at high tide, a few square feet of sand-beach between the sea and the bottom of the hill. Two Years Before the Mast
• The southern California bight region, Baja peninsula and waters offshore of central California are emerging as major regions of bluefin tuna residency.
• Leaf headed his boat around to the small bight where the large power boat was tied, manoeuvred up to her and rafted alongside.
• When we facilitate groups, we use a captive eye biner attached to the rope with a regular figure eight on a bight. Undefined
• At last we found our way out of the heart of the Goodwins, and got into the deep, wide swatchway called the Ramsgate Man's Bight. Heroes of the Goodwin Sands
• Just where we landed was a small cove, or "bight," which gave us, at high tide, a few square feet of sand-beach between the sea and the bottom of the hill. Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative
• He trotted across the level deck to Skipper, who, standing erect on wide-spread legs, the bight of the mainsheet still in his hand, was exclaiming: CHAPTER V