How To Use Close-hauled In A Sentence
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I therefore kept the felucca away until I found that she was rather more than holding her own in the race, when I once more lashed the tiller, and, calling to Dominguez to look out for the things that I was about to launch overboard, ran to the gangway, and first successfully set the wash-deck tub afloat, then rolled the breaker of water out through the open _gangway_, and finally sent the mast and sail adrift; after which I returned to the tiller and watched the process of picking up the several articles, as I gradually brought the felucca to her former course, close-hauled upon the starboard tack.
A Pirate of the Caribbees
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The early morning found the Wonder laying close-hauled along the coast of Guadalcanar.
A SON OF THE SUN
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If this 90-degree turn is anticipated and practiced, the helmsman will be able to come about from closehauled to close-hauled every time.
Sailing Fundamentals
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Running off before the wind with everything to starboard, he came about, and returned close-hauled on the port tack.
Chapter 17
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The boat was close-hauled on a fresh breeze and the compass indicated that we were just making the course which would bring us to Japan.
Chapter 27
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Had he had the eyes of a man, nearly two yards higher than his own from the deck, and had they been the trained eyes of a man, sailor-man at that, Jerry could have seen the low blur of Ysabel to the north and the blur of Florida to the south, ever taking on definiteness of detail as the Arangi sagged close-hauled, with a good full, port-tacked to the south-east trade.
CHAPTER III
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A heavy surf thundered and burst over an outjutting rock; lowering storm-clouds covered the sky; and, outside the line of surf, a pilot-schooner, close-hauled, heeled over till every detail of her deck was visible, was surging along against a stormy sunset sky.
Chapter 1
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Sailing in nearly the opposite direction, that is, tacking close-hauled into this headwind, is a French ship.
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Benjamin Mendlowitz Two schooners sailing close-hauled through the rough September seas of Vineyard Sound off Massachusetts — the photograph above is a timeless evocation of American boating.
Photo-Op: Rough Seas
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By twenty after, the Snow Goose was heeled over on the port tack, close-hauled and making over nine knots.
CORMORANT
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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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I came on deck to find the Ghost heading up close on the port tack and cutting in to windward of a familiar spritsail close-hauled on the same tack ahead of us.
Chapter 19
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Close-hauled they tacked aweather, guided by the sound of combat, which grew in volume and definition as they approached it.
Captain Blood
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A tailor-made, double-breasted blue serge suit, close-hauled and demoded; a soft white silk shirt, with non-detachable collar; a plain black silk four-in-hand tie, and a uniform cap, set a little back and to one side on thick, black, glossy, wavy hair, completed his attire.
Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley
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As he approached, close-hauled on the wind, he saw her decks crowded by an unusually large crew, and on sailing in closer, made out among others the faces of his missing comrades.
Chris Farrington, Able Seaman
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On the water, however, sailing close-hauled may feel faster, primarily because the boat is heeling over, but you move more quickly in the upright position, running before the wind.
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A heavy surf thundered and burst over an outjutting rock; lowering storm-clouds covered the sky; and, outside the line of surf, a pilot-schooner, close-hauled, heeled over till every detail of her deck was visible, was surging along against a stormy sunset sky.
Chapter 1
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And still we drive south, close-hauled on the wind, toward the inhospitable tip of the continent.
CHAPTER XXXII
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On this night, close-hauled, her big mainsail preposterously flattened down, her luffs pulsing emptily on the lift of each smooth swell, she was sliding an easy four knots through the water on the veriest whisper of a breeze.
THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
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By twenty after, the Snow Goose was heeled over on the port tack, close-hauled and making over nine knots.
CORMORANT
