How To Use close-hauled In A Sentence
- 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.
- By twenty after, the Snow Goose was heeled over on the port tack, close-hauled and making over nine knots. CORMORANT
- 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
- And still we drive south, close-hauled on the wind, toward the inhospitable tip of the continent. CHAPTER XXXII
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- Close-hauled they tacked aweather, guided by the sound of combat, which grew in volume and definition as they approached it. Captain Blood
- 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
