sailing yacht

collocation in English

meaningsofsailingandyacht

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sailing
noun
uk
/ˈseɪ.lɪŋ/us
/ˈseɪ.lɪŋ/
the sport or activity of using boats ...
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yacht
noun[C]
uk
/jɒt/us
/jɑːt/
a boat with sails and sometimes an engine, used for either racing or travelling on ...
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(Definition ofsailingandyachtfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Participants should have 5 days, 100 miles and 4 night hours on board asailingyacht.
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Due to the long history of measuring or rating merchant sailing ships by their tonnage so tonnage was naturally also used to measure or rate asailingyacht.
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A hybrid type of vessel is a motorsailingyachtthat can use either sail or propulsion (or both) as conditions dictate.
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I can see no reason for excluding sailing yachts.
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We know that animals are smuggled into this country on ferries, possibly—now—through the channel tunnel, and on sailing yachts entering the many ports along the south and other coasts.
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These charter vessels can range from large sailing yachts to dinner cruise ships.
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They make traditional ketch rigged motorsailers and the pilothouse sailing yachts.
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Recently some sailing yachts (particularly home-built yachts) have begun to use steel masts.
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On modern sailing yachts, the term boomkin is used to refer to a spar extending aft from the stern of the boat which has a long main boom.
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It was the centre of the boat-building industry that provided the sailing yachts, rowing boats and steam launches used on the lake.
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Hill has been voyaging and living aboard various sailing yachts since 1975.
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Many pure sailing yachts are also equipped with a low-power internal-combustion engine for use in conditions of calm and when entering or leaving difficult anchorages.
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Modern sailing yachts can be equipped with electric inboard motors in order to reduce consumption of fossil fuel.
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This boat follows the general layout for most single-mast sailing yachts, having a mainsail and a foresail, with the cockpit at the back of the boat.
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