"bulb" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- No one seems to know what could have caused a 8,400-pound ballast bulb on Coyote's keel to fall off.
- He is having a new ballast bulb attached to the yacht's 14-foot keel.
- All of the yachts belonging to cup finalists carry underwater wings, but the appendages are attached to the boats' ballast bulbs, not to their steering mechanisms.
- But on keels with ballast bulbs or other appendages, kelp can form clumps big enough to slow down the boat.
- The sailboat's 14-foot keel and ballast bulb pivot sideways underneath the hull.
- But he said the boat's 8,400-pound ballast bulb, designed to keep the boat upright, was missing.
- Davis shipped the battered hull back to Rhode Island, where inquiries over the missing ballast bulb turned heartbreak into blame.
- He had also run the yacht aground several times, immersing the all-important ballast bulb in mucky sea bottoms before leaving on his voyage.
- "Their ballast bulbs are a little heavier, the boats are a little lighter, and the sails are a little stiffer."
- Koch said this week that in December he sent America into the shed for a major refit with new ballast bulb, keel and rudder.
Click on the heading to expand the collocation groups, collocations and sample sentences.