Furthermore, on the coast there tend to be some expert sailors around and your confidence in your own ability does not benefit from comparison with them.
He was an expert sailor, an even better swimmer.
He needs someone like George, he pleads, admitting that he is far from the expert sailor he's been claiming to be.
And to crown her joy Guy Ferris was an expert sailor.
But this was the play of a child, he thought, and it was not preparing him to be an expert sailor.
Also, the tallow picked up sediments from the bottom which expert sailors could examine to determine exactly where they were.
He is a survivor beaver as well as an expert sailor and mathematician, able to traverse any hypotenuse.
Harker had proved himself a real expert sailor.
Pete was an expert sailor, and little Ben seemed to be an equally expert helper, despite his age.