How To Use Dinghy In A Sentence
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It proved necessary to row ashore in a small dinghy, plunging through the hot spray past a Turkish battleship that had been moored for so long that the coral had grown up around it, immobilising it forever.
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During the hustle of everyone getting underway someone tripped the anchor that we used to stabilize our dinghy.
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He explained to the Western People that an old dinghy, which has been patched up by his son on the morning of the accident, proved to be the rescue vehicle for the drowning family.
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The dinghy gathered speed as the wind filled her sails.
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Kevin Wilkinson's simple metal dinghy, propelled by a single scull from a rowlock at the stern, maintains one of the oldest crossings of the Mersey – now transferred to the canal because the nearby river itself is bridged.
Britain's Best Views: the Mersey ferry, Liverpool
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Some other members were on hand to demonstrate how to rig the sails on a sailing dinghy and show the layout of a boat to the trainees.
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We did dinghy drill in the harbour and this usually finished with us swimming around in the beautifully clear waters of this sheltered haven.
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The holidaymaker tried to climb the rock face after he and a pal landed at its foot in a rubber dinghy.
The Sun
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The coble, so called because it was clinker-built in the manner of a Scotch fishing dinghy, very flat-bottomed, glided across the reef without grazing itself and stroked the mere 150 yards across the lagoon to the straight beach, where some of the surviving members of the community stood waiting: six women, one—the oldest—big with child, and five men whose ages, if their faces reflected their years, varied between shaveling young and grizzled old.
Morgan’s Run
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The crowd began to uncouple from their conversations, and Floyd launched his dinghy onto the dark waters of the Chateau de Ville Ballroom and Function Facilities.
Nuptial Indemnity
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The dinghy was rocked by the wash of a passing ferry.
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There is a walled courtyard garden and room at the rear for a small car and a dinghy.
Times, Sunday Times
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A family in a dinghy or a beginner oarsman could be prosecuted if they collided with a swimmer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tender Inflatable dinghy, with pump and oars.
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Living by the sea, he enjoyed sailing his dinghy.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the water ducks and coots patrolled the margins and further out was a dinghy.
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The dinghy sailed smoothly across the lake.
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But for travelers accustomed to the bells and whistles of a big ship, a week at sea with little more than card games and some old DVDs for entertainment can make even the cushiest yacht feel like a dinghy.
Cruise Ships Out; Yachts In
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Everyone else was busy, so I launched the small rubber dinghy and started rowing.
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The dinghy crossed into the first line of blackness under the flotel.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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On the far side of the dinghy was a flat-bottomed marsh punt, an outboard motor at its stern.
THE KEYS OF HELL
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COPS searching for a man who went on an early-morning river trip in a small dinghy found a body yesterday.
The Sun
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The wash of a large motorboat rocked the little dinghy.
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After setting anchor, the holiday makers board their dinghy and make their way over to the harbour-side restaurant of Augusta Insula.
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A six-inch wide potholing ladder had been lowered, and I was instructed to wait until the dinghy was at its highest point on the swell, then to leap out of the boat and grab the ladder.
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It can fit in the boot of an ordinary car, can be used as a surf board, a rowing dinghy, a windsurfer, a sailing dingy, can be towed behind a power boat or used as a beach boat for children (under supervision, of course) and costs next to nothing.
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Their inflatable dinghy lost power shortly after it took to sea.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each time he was hauled aboard a rubber dinghy and returned to the shore by its crew.
The Sun
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I hope to have learnt to sail my dinghy without endangering the safety of myself, my crew and passing vessels.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cream of Scottish dinghy racers converged at the Royal West of Scotland Amateur Boat Club to do battle yesterday.
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The other way to utilize your light tackle is fishing from your dinghy.
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But not everyone who visits this exclusive little port considers it prudent to spend the equivalent of the cost of a clinker-built dinghy on a single night's accommodation.
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The new plan provides complete protection right inside the inner part which is south of the river; this makes a great place to leave your dinghy if there is a swell at the main dock.
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Here's a tip - take a bulk spool of line and an inflatable dinghy with you.
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Kevin Wilkinson's simple metal dinghy, propelled by a single scull from a rowlock at the stern, maintains one of the oldest crossings of the Mersey – now transferred to the canal because the nearby river itself is bridged.
Britain's Best Views: the Mersey ferry, Liverpool
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Aft of him was stowage space for a collapsible dinghy, maintenance platforms and a spare propeller!
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And if, as those men - Robert Wagner (her husband), Christopher Walken and the captain - claimed, she had been disturbed by a banging dinghy, why would Natalie and not the captain go out on a stormy night to retie it?
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The men used an inflatable dinghy to row alongside the SeaFrance vessel as she prepared to leave Calais and then climbed on to a metal fender 6ft above the water level.
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And the salty sea dog captain of the Remain dinghy?
The Sun
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A short ride in a motorised dinghy later and we wash up on the island.
In search of Errol Flynn's Jamaica
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She was on the shoreward side of the dinghy, away from the searchlights.
TOY SHOP
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If you have a bungalow, it might be wise to keep an inflatable dinghy in your loft.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her present from her father on her eighth birthday was her first boat, a dinghy.
Times, Sunday Times
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She sailed the dinghy across the bay.
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At the Grenada Yacht Club on the eastern side of town, yachtsmen were gathered for a morning of dinghy sailing.
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One of the airmen landed in the river still in his ejector seat but was able to deploy his dinghy, while the other drifted off downriver.
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Ruth Wallis still has the sauciest inflatable raft song with "He's got the cutest little dinghy in the Navy", but Wenche Myhre wins the "peppiest and pizazziest delivery of a rubber flotation device song" hands DOWN.
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But he managed to right the dinghy and get ashore to rescue the canoeists and bring them back on board the lifeboat.
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The dinghy sailed smoothly across the lake.
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Tender Inflatable dinghy, with pump and oars.
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Standard equipment includes a 500-lb, capacity davit for raising and lowering a dinghy to the flybridge.
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Fitz smiled at this, remembering his own boyhood dreams as he'd sailed a small dinghy and thought of bigger boats.
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Scott-Hughes was standing up in his dinghy, clutching the lifeline, his face beaded with perspiration, his lips moving.
CORMORANT
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Born in the Lake District, Stuart Miller became a professional mountain guide in 1985, but during a wet summer in the lakes he tried his hand at running a white water river in a kids rubber dinghy.
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Having made Winter Marsh from the Crouch I anchored off a shallow bay and rowed ashore in the dinghy.
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Chichio's boat is a monster dinghy the length of a bus.
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He owned his first yacht when he was twenty four, a sailing dinghy with a rig of his own design, built in water-resistant ply - unusual for those days.
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Still undaunted by what was acknowledged, at the time, as the longest distance ever sailed in an open dinghy out of sight of land, the King planted a flag at the base to commemorate the event.
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On the north-east coast, Royal Findhorn Yacht Club's race officials were thwarted by unfavourable tides and dying wind for day one of their dinghy regatta.
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After losing almost all their equipment, including the major's jacket' they drifted in their dinghy until seen by a Japanese whaler.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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A friend invited me to go sailing in a dinghy, again on a stormy day.
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It took us half an hour to inflate the dinghy.
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Making his way back to the dinghy he took off his jacket and boots, shirt and trousers, stowed them in the dinghy, went down to the waterline where a small, branchy dead tree lay and heaved and shoved it out into the water.
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After dark, we could hear the sound of oars of an approaching dinghy.
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Late that evening, when the household supposed him to be in bed, the boy crept down through the moonlit garden to the dinghy which Billy had left on its frape under the cliff.
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
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The helicopter had vanished and the dinghy was much nearer the pilot, who appeared not to be moving.
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The aircraft had to ditch in the North Sea and all six crew members were able to scramble out and into a dinghy.
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The dinghy has three sails and a trapeze, which allows Katherine to lean out of the boat on a wire to counteract the force of the sails and keep the boat upright.
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On June 25 this year, he and a friend, Misha, had ventured out into the water on a rubber dinghy, near their friends' country house on Sinovetskoye lake, 69 km from St Petersburg.
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Silence, and Jayve knew Mad was lying in the bilgewater of his own dinghy just beyond the thin line of runway lights that Jayve glimpsed through the rain.
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We go ashore by dinghy at a pretty stone jetty surrounded by dense trees and rhododendron bushes.
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I took the chance to inflate the little rubber dinghy and row off to see the raft from a distance.
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But since this is a real dinghy when assembled, there is no reason any dinghy style leeboard would not work.
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He took the fateful decision to jump from the dinghy and swim for the shore but did not make it, despite being a strong swimmer and fit.
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All was going well until we spotted a dinghy rowing towards us on the open waves.
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She sailed the dinghy across the bay.
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You've dug out the pump for the inflatable dinghy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having made Winter Marsh from the Crouch I anchored off a shallow bay and rowed ashore in the dinghy.
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The dinghy gathered speed as the wind filled her sails.
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A sailor was left fuming after thieves stole the inflatable dinghy he had used to get from his boat to shore.
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But we can only wonder whether the dark shapes below our dinghy are marine life or the ghostly remains of pearling luggers and guano sailing ships wrecked by cyclones around the turn of last century.
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A family in a dinghy or a beginner oarsman could be prosecuted if they collided with a swimmer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Row across the lake in the dinghy, or use the mountain bikes to explore.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can tie up your own tender at the dinghy docks or go ashore in one of the harbor launches.
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The water depth across much of the dinghy course is not much over two metres and the Morton Bay mud is dark brown, if you add 1-1. 5 metres of sharp little seas and a capsize ... behold a 'choc-top' as the boats are righted, that is Morton Bay mud on the mast tip.
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Her present from her father on her eighth birthday was her first boat, a dinghy.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you don't sail a dinghy well you don't actually go anywhere, but in a cat you pull the sails in and then point vaguely in the right direction and it can go like a bullet from a gun.
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So why would any person in their right mind nail their colours to the mast of a leaky dinghy rather than a majestic tall ship?
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Something my friend and I didn't know about each other (we had been out of touch over the years) was that we had both continued to take regular exercise: cycling, dinghy-sailing and fell-walking.
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She began sailing in a dinghy at the age of four and came tenth in her class at the Beijing Olympics.
The Sun
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The three of us manhandled the uncovered dinghy out of the shed.
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Between the keelboat and dinghy fleets at Dundee's Royal Tay Yacht Club yesterday more than 40 entries took to the water.
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He's really in a dinghy, its mast little taller than its sole occupant!
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A huge wave flipped the dinghy over.
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Rescuers used ropes to get close to the man before he was hauled into their dinghy.
The Sun
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We have rented a flat in Cannaregio in late April and have no idea about laws as to mooring, but even to rent a dinghy (aka a tinny where I come from) for a day would be bliss.
Renting A Boat In Venice
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On his retirement in 1992, CDRE McKay was rowed across the lake in a Navy dinghy.
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A tourist in a dinghy dragged the man on board and brought him ashore and another holidaymaker then tried to save his life, according to a report in the Daily Mail.
Seychelles shark attack kills honeymooning man
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Lifesavers have issued a stark safety warning after a family's frolics ended in the desperate rescue of a small child whose rubber dinghy was swept out to sea.
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These are three towering water chutes, in varying levels of steepness, down which you plunge in a rubber dinghy.
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We haul our camera and camping gear, all 600 pounds of it, onto a tiny rubber dinghy and putter out to his boat.
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In the meantime, some visiting boats anchor out in the roadstead and their crews dinghy in to the adjacent, landlocked municipal marina.
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Rescuers used ropes to get close to the man before he was hauled into their dinghy.
The Sun
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I sculled the dinghy in through the entrance to the harbour and in among the yachts moored there in rows; Tern IV was there, and Coral, I remember.
Movie Night
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Two men cheated death when they were rescued from freezing floodwaters after their dinghy capsized near Selby.
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As I looked at these tremendous pedal extremities, I mused that I sail a dinghy, not much bigger than his boots, on the open waters of the Gulf of Thailand.
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It was a ship: a black ship, single-masted, square-rigged, with a dinghy behind.
Greenwitch
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The coble, so called because it was clinker-built in the manner of a Scotch fishing dinghy, very flat-bottomed, glided across the reef without grazing itself and stroked the mere 150 yards across the lagoon to the straight beach, where some of the surviving members of the community stood waiting: six women, one—the oldest—big with child, and five men whose ages, if their faces reflected their years, varied between shaveling young and grizzled old.
Morgan’s Run
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I made all square and got the dinghy up, and sculled ashore with Mollie to the steps.
Movie Night
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Julian: Your desire for a dinghy is merely the tesseract shadow cast by the four-dimensional dinghy itself
The Market Will Solve
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The dinghy gathered speed as the wind filled her sails.
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Whether bobbing about on a dinghy or crossing the oceans on a Tall Ship, one can learn the mechanics of piloting and navigating.
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And from out of the night, over the roofs of Trewissick from the dark inland moors, came sailing again the phantom ship of Cornwall, single-masted, square-rigged, with a dinghy behind, that had sailed up out of the midnight sea in the haunting.
Greenwitch
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You can tie up your own tender at the dinghy docks or go ashore in one of the harbor launches.
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Yet Emma has just returned to her roots, sailing a dinghy in the Clyde with a 15-year-old girl from Helensburgh Sailing Club, and professes to have enjoyed every minute of it.
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It took us half an hour to inflate the dinghy.
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Once when they tried to frighten it off, it seized the drogue rope and gave the dinghy a spin.
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Two large men and one hefty woman were climbing aboard from a yellow dinghy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Every form of sailing imaginable is on offer here, from beginners' dinghy lessons on the lake-like waters of North Sound to fully crewed yachts.
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Should you wish, you can have a sail in a dinghy in the presence of our qualified instructors, but remember to bring some old clothes and a windproof, or relax in our clubhouse and watch racing on the lake.
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The access dinghy he uses to sail is controlled by a hand operated joystick, allowing him a freedom of movement he lacks on land.
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Rescuers used ropes to get close to the man before he was hauled into their dinghy.
The Sun
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Even if you don't fancy the idea of living in a rock house without windows just a few feet from the ocean, Moonhole is well worth a visit either by dinghy or taxi.
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We anchor alone in the lee of the cay, pile into the inflatable dinghy, don our masks and fins, and spend the next hour swimming with dolphins.
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Apart from windsurfing and sailing - in anything from a dinghy to a big swish yacht - there were harbour cruises and deep-sea fishing trips.
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The coble, so called because it was clinker-built in the manner of a Scotch fishing dinghy, very flat-bottomed, glided across the reef without grazing itself and stroked the mere 150 yards across the lagoon to the straight beach, where some of the surviving members of the community stood waiting: six women, one—the oldest—big with child, and five men whose ages, if their faces reflected their years, varied between shaveling young and grizzled old.
Morgan’s Run
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Coral heads, reef sharks and parrot fish shimmer beneath a plane of water so translucent, that a dinghy moored there not so much floats as levitates.
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There is a large lake in the landscaped gardens, with two islands, a dinghy and lakeside summerhouse with its own jetty alongside.
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The dinghy has three sails and a trapeze, which allows Katherine to lean out of the boat on a wire to counteract the force of the sails and keep the boat upright.
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One side of the island has a terrific beach and a large lagoon, with windsurfing, water bikes, dinghy sailing, and safe bathing.
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His group set off aboard a rubber dinghy, but was never heard from again.
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Row across the lake in the dinghy, or use the mountain bikes to explore.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two large men and one hefty woman were climbing aboard from a yellow dinghy.
Times, Sunday Times
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SUVs in "compact" spots, squeezing me between like a dinghy sneaking between cruiseliners.
Fear the dented Datsun.
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It was an eight-foot sailing dinghy with high freeboard.
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You've dug out the pump for the inflatable dinghy.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had a visit from a fire and rescue team in a rubber dinghy, checking to make sure he was all right - and at one point his girlfriend Brenda floated supplies down to him from Skeldergate Bridge wrapped in plastic bin-liners.
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I get into the plastic dinghy with not a little trepidation.
Times, Sunday Times
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I've crossed that distance by dinghy, kayak, tiny sailboat and a little rowboat with an outboard.
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The first outboard motor boats on the reef were made, according to local legend, by returned World War I servicemen, by lashing a Ford engine to the back of a dinghy.
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It is uninhabited by man, but his mark is there: a convenient stake in the ground for dinghy tie up and, of course, the endless jetsam on the windward shore.
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One man died and another was ill in hospital after their dinghy capsized off Orkney.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's a hint of a more dangerous kind of romantic movie here, where a girl slowly realizes her dreamboat is a dry-docked dinghy.
Arab Times Kuwait English Daily
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Being no flimsy dinghy, this sailboat required a lot of muscle to set so much sail.
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One of the airmen landed in the river still in his ejector seat but was able to deploy his dinghy, while the other drifted off downriver.
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We had time to get a Coast Guard mayday off, get out on the deck, unlash the rubber zodiac dinghy from the deck, and get off the boat.
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In shelters on nearby Castle Peak there are similar paintings: of a steam ship, and a detailed image of a lugger, identifiable as the Mildred, towing a dinghy.
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Moroccan authorities said last week that the suspects planned to sail a dinghy loaded with explosives from Morocco into the strait to attack the vessels.
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As the dinghy approaches the shores of North Avon Island, flocks of sooty and noddy terns swirl up and wheel above the dinghy, squawking loudly at our intrusion.
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A strong current carried the dinghy away.
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It was an eight-foot sailing dinghy with high freeboard.
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After squizzing a 4’ nurse shark, we returned to the dinghy and motored over to check out another spot.
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He went down to the harbour and hired a boat, twelve feet of clinker-built dinghy with long, heavy paddles.
THE MAIN CAGES
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Use a Dinghy or tender to row the kedge anchor in deeper water.
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On the north-east coast, Royal Findhorn Yacht Club's race officials were thwarted by unfavourable tides and dying wind for day one of their dinghy regatta.
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He was also a keen dinghy sailor, and played the piano and cello.
Times, Sunday Times
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The tow rope sprang taut, plucking the dinghy clear as the swell broke, thundering forward on to the waiting coral.
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This handsome dinghy has proved to be an ideal family daysailer.
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I hooked my left arm over the gunwale of the dinghy and supported her with my right.
TOY SHOP
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Here, sheltered more completely than opposite the break in the reef, the artu came in places right down to the water's edge; the breadfruit trees cast the shadow of their great scalloped leaves upon the water; glades, thick with fern, wildernesses of the mammee apple, and bushes of the scarlet "wild cocoanut" all slipped by, as the dinghy, hugging the shore, crept up the lagoon.
The Blue Lagoon: a romance
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By the end of the week the pair of us had become proficient dinghy sailors, had made new friends and had had a cracking good time.
Times, Sunday Times
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The La Malouine was nearest and proceeded to attempt to pick up the crew that by this time were in their rubber dinghy.
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The most unusual form of transport was a dinghy pressed into service by Bedford Rotary Club, who traveled some 40Km to Brampton.
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Julian: Your desire for a dinghy is merely the tesseract shadow cast by the four-dimensional dinghy itself
The Market Will Solve
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Traffickers crammed 140 people on a motorised dinghy designed for 20.
The Sun
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The lifeboat located four kayakers, who had landed at a cove east of Spain tower, and the lifeboat launched an inflatable dinghy to rescue the stranded kayakers.
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Laundry was strung on a line across the bow, and on the tarred roll roofing an old dinghy was lashed down, painted with the same lavish decor as her mother ship.
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A rescue helicopter was scrambled after his empty dinghy was spotted floating out to sea.
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In her frantic efforts to climb back onto the dinghy, her claws ripped a hole in the gunwale.
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Each time he was hauled aboard a rubber dinghy and returned to the shore by its crew.
The Sun
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The holidaymaker tried to climb the rock face after he and a pal landed at its foot in a rubber dinghy.
The Sun
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He is a keen dinghy sailor and has also tried sand yachting.
Times, Sunday Times
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We go ashore by dinghy at a pretty stone jetty surrounded by dense trees and rhododendron bushes.
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At the same time another aircraft with floats fitted landed near the dinghy and picked up the crew and flew off.
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Horrified onlookers could only watch, as an offshore wind blew their flimsy dinghy vessel, into deeper water.
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Standing a moment longer on the shore he watches the dinghy, until it tacks out of sight on the far side of the broad bay, heading for harbour.
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This is a crane that's been designed by Chris Mitchell, what he calls an access dinghy system, and this is the crane that he uses off the pontoons, yes.
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With a practised flip, he righted the dinghy and held it steady while we clambered aboard.
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As he finished fastening the dinghy in its davits Rose came alongside.
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A busy summer's day on Ullswater turned to tragedy as two girls in an inflatable dinghy watched their father slip beneath the cold waters never to resurface alive, an inquest heard.
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A rubber dinghy rushed at full speed to and fro along the Moscow River with a poster saying ‘No war’.
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The rocket launcher on the afterdeck takes up so much space that there is no room for a rubber dinghy that would enable the German sailors to board a suspicious ship.
The wrong sort of government
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A strong current carried the dinghy away.
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If not a Carley float, then certainly an inflatable rubber dinghy.
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He explained to the Western People that an old dinghy, which has been patched up by his son on the morning of the accident, proved to be the rescue vehicle for the drowning family.
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Their inflatable dinghy lost power shortly after it took to sea.
Times, Sunday Times
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These are three towering water chutes, in varying levels of steepness, down which you plunge in a rubber dinghy.
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Standing a moment longer on the shore he watches the dinghy, until it tacks out of sight on the far side of the broad bay, heading for harbour.
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As the two crewmen parachuted into the sea, the back part of their ejection seats fell away and the bottom part turned into an inflatable dinghy as they hit the water.
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New rides being offered for the first time this year include the Wave Runner ride an exciting family water coaster where participant whoosh down a trough of fast-moving water in a rubber dinghy.
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The engine stopped. The dinghy spun like a top and a huge wave came at me.
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She had wide interests, was a keen dinghy sailor and took an active part in youth welfare.
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The most popular was the clinker-built dinghy.
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Meanwhile, two young boys, aged 8 and 13, had a lucky escape yesterday afternoon when they were carried out to sea on an inflatable dinghy.
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With a practised flip, he righted the dinghy and held it steady while we clambered aboard.
