"beam" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Sailors use this term synonymously with the points of sail below a beam reach, since the wind direction is generally the same as the sea direction.
- A beam reach, the fastest point of sail.
- On some boats, the beam reach is the fastest point of sail; on others, a broad reach is faster.
- This is an upwind angle between close hauled and a beam reach.
- This represents a range of wind angles between beam reach and running downwind.
- Racing sailboats typically set a spinnaker when sailing any point of sail from beam reach to a run.
- The wind was a gusty 30 knots from the north-northwest and building, and it was a wet beam reach to the mouth of the harbor.
- Caldris says to put us on a beam reach.
- Figure of eight: All of the course should on a beam reach with two floating marks that have to be jibed around.
- "We were sailing at speeds of up to 27 knots on a beam reach," Mouligne recalled.
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