How To Use Seaworthy In A Sentence

Going down with a sinking ship seems so pointless when other more seaworthy vessels are within arm's reach.
Longships were of extremely seaworthy design, and the addition of sails made very long voyages feasible, while the shallow draught meant that raiders could penetrate far inland by river.
In October 2001, over 400 asylum-seekers departed from Indonesia in an overcrowded, unseaworthy boat bound for Australia.
Instead, what you want is the whole clam belly, well coated and properly fried in clean, hot oil, to produce the total joy that comes from the soft, seaworthy oozing revealed upon mastication. Robert Rosenthal: One Woman's Disgusting Clam Is Another Man's Pleasure To Eat
There is little doubt that the recent crisis has revealed that many economies and financial systems right around the world were far less 'seaworthy' than we thought. FXstreet.com

Snooker: I think the Swedes have a sense of humor about how some things never change bureaucratic dippiness...the reason Vasa got the go-ahead even though they had a pretty good idea it wasn't seaworthy! Stockholm
The bomber scored a direct hit on the bridge area, but it did not render the ship unseaworthy.
The bomber scored a direct hit on the bridge area, but it did not render the ship unseaworthy.
Charles had imagined Stark as the captain of an old but seaworthy vessel.
He insisted: ‘Upon leaving Mongstad, the ship was seaworthy and safe.’
In the right hands it is probably the most adaptable and seaworthy vessel afloat.
Having gained power through this coup d'etat, Antonio then proceeded to 'banish' his brother in such a way as to ensure the death of Prospero and his infant daughter, casting them adrift in an unseaworthy sea vessel with only the supply of food and water provided for them by a kindly old courtier named Gonzalo. Shakespeare
The GUARDIAN got into difficulties, and much pumping had to be made to keep the ship seaworthy.
As she was in the habit of obeying his commands very literally, and as a few hours after he left Lisbon a little cockleshell of a steamer came in, she embarked in this most unseaworthy boat the afternoon of the same day, though she had no proper accommodation for passengers. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
They are light seaworthy craft without a keel which ride large ocean waves and skim up shallow rivers.
You are quite right to infer that something more seaworthy than the Dover boat carried goods by sea in the bronze age.
The curved wood ceiling, shuttered wooden windows and rough planked floors lend it a seaworthy air.
As any Master of a seaworthy vessel would do, he quickly steams towards the sinking boat.
The original boat proved seaworthy, fast and able to carry large amounts of kit, but weathercocked more than was comfortable.
While a little rubber ducky may suit well for short hops between boats in a snug cove, you may need a tougher, larger, and more seaworthy tender if you cruise to far away places.
The vessel carrying the Contract goods shall be seaworthy and cargo-worthy and the age of which shall not exceed 15 years without the Buyer's prior written consent.
As it happens, it is impossible to survive a flood in a cube, for all the following reasons: 1. A cube is the least seaworthy ship. Modern Science in the Bible
The burden of proving that the ship was not seaworthy and that unseaworthiness caused or contributed to the loss or damage complained of, lies on the defendants.
Arguing that profiteering shipowners and unscrupulous insurers were collaborating in sending out unseaworthy vessels, the play led to popular outrage and a change in the law.
When at length all of them had been brought to the surface their condition was exceedingly dilapidated; indeed only two of them were in a condition to float; but although it was evident that the carpenter would be busy for many weeks before they would be seaworthy, their reappearance was a tremendous relief. The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition
He exposed them to great danger, sending them off in overcrowded and unseaworthy boats that experienced engine failure, or sank.
Having proven herself as a fast and seaworthy vessel, Fame was able to outsail and capture vessels many times her size.
Team 3 is responsible for the engineering compartments and ensures the vessel is actually seaworthy.
Why do they persist in risking their lives in cramped conditions aboard unseaworthy vessels?
When I visited it was up on hydraulic jacks and surrounded by green screens in a huge hangar-like sound stage, but I understand it had been floating in the water tank previously for other shots, so was actually at least semi-seaworthy. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
That is because the essence of unseaworthiness as a cause of loss or damage is that the unseaworthy ship is unfit to meet the peril.
The boat might seem to be a seaworthy vessel, but in fact be full of holes - this fact need not be presented in the experience.
For VPLP, the challenge consisted of designing a fully crewed, no compromise multihull, which is totally versatile but very high-performing, suitable for a mixed programme, which is always seaworthy but cutting edge and progressive, but which always preserves the safety of the crew on board. Sail-World.com USA Latest News
We have even read stories of clients of the smugglers being forced at gunpoint by Indonesian armed forces to join and stay on obviously unseaworthy boats.
Assuredly Chinese ships were seaworthy enough to sail across the Pacific and back.
Jim's trawler Seaworthy pulled away from his dock and there were nuns on the bow, nuns at the stem, nuns on the flybridge and nuns down below in the cabin.
She says half a million people applied for the few hundred places: depending on how many of the 10 boats are seaworthy in time, there should be around 400 people on the flotilla. Alice Walker: Why I'm joining the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza
So the boat was seaworthy at this time, no question of that whatsoever.
Various factories in and near the harbour area specialize in keeping the extensive trawler fleet and other vessels seaworthy.
Why have they chosen to put their lives at risk by travelling in cramped conditions aboard unseaworthy vessels?
I have given in the plans of the _Spray_ the dimensions of such a ship as I should call seaworthy in all conditions of weather and on all seas. Sailing Alone Around the World
In all the circumstances I find that the ship was seaworthy at the material time.
They carried a centerboard and were fast and seaworthy.
Not all of these submarines are presently seaworthy.
We have been accommodating to the boats that are unseaworthy for 18 months now.
While a little rubber ducky may suit well for short hops between boats in a snug cove, you may need a tougher, larger, and more seaworthy tender if you cruise to far away places.
One of the overcrowded, unseaworthy boats later ran aground off the coast of Timor and three Iraqi men drowned.
Having proven herself as a fast and seaworthy vessel, Fame was able to outsail and capture vessels many times her size.
Eventually, the museum will caulk and paint Surprise to make her seaworthy.
He exposed them to great danger, sending them off in overcrowded and unseaworthy boats that experienced engine failure, or sank.
Federal maritime laws require that ship owners and employers provide a "seaworthy" vessel for its crew at all times. Boats and Boating Online Resource Center. Find Boating News, Products and Services. Boating RSS Feed Available.
The goods are to be packed in strong seaworthy wooden cases.
We anticipated a rusty scow; he commissioned a very handsomely appointed, eminently seaworthy vessel.
The project team had to produce a seaworthy ship.
These were light, strong, fast, seaworthy, and could be portaged round falls or towed up rapids.
It's sort of important right now for the Albatross to be seaworthy again. THE TREASURED ONE
Now that the Hanasakimaru is again seaworthy, Abe and his crew are preparing for a month at sea. Japan's Tsunami-Ravaged Fishing Communities Fight Back
It took shipbuilders thousands of years to determine the ideal proportions for a seaworthy and stable cargo ship. Modern Science in the Bible
It's sort of important right now for the Albatross to be seaworthy again. THE TREASURED ONE
Thought I better email you to warn you to avoid small, unseaworthy craft at night for the next little while. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
The return to the ship involves a _bloto_ across the bay, with many misgivings as to the seaworthy capacities of the clumsy craft, but four bamboo safety-poles, fastened by forked sticks to the sides of the hollowed log, suffice to steady it enough to avoid capsizal. Through the Malay Archipelago
Redrawing the national border for migration purposes will force desperate asylum seekers to try to sail in unseaworthy boats all the way to the mainland, evading and fleeing from warships along the way.
Instead, in his view, they may have knowingly allowed the heavily overloaded and unseaworthy boat to leave Indonesia and sink soon afterwards.
It is hard to imagine what makes people desperate enough to leave their country to prowl the oceans in unseaworthy boats.
In the right hands it is probably the most adaptable and seaworthy vessel afloat.
Arguing that profiteering shipowners and unscrupulous insurers were collaborating in sending out unseaworthy vessels, the play led to popular outrage and a change in the law.
We could be imprisoned or forced back to sea in an even less seaworthy vessel.
The draft report suggests the 26 ft open-deck fishing boat was unseaworthy, overloaded and unstable.
Therefore, they had shallow drafts and rode low in the water; while they were more seaworthy than many of the northern ironclads, their weatherly qualities were dubious.
Serving on sweltering ironclads and steamers or on marginally seaworthy vessels required increased attention to medical care, nutrition, and morale for volunteer citizen-sailors.
According to survivors' accounts, the boat was so unseaworthy that 21 people had earlier asked to be put back to shore and were left on a small Indonesian island.
The burden of proving that the ship was not seaworthy and that unseaworthiness caused or contributed to the loss or damage complained of, lies on the defendants.
Lots of us have undertaken the task of restoring an older vessel to a seaworthy condition.
It was in an attempt to catch substandard, unseaworthy ships that the European Union toughened its port inspection procedures following the Erika incident off the French coast.
While on its voyage, and after it had left Indonesian waters, but not yet reached Australian waters the ship became progressively unseaworthy - a prelude to the disaster that saw its demise.
The jury later wrote to the coroner, deploring the fact that an unseaworthy ship could put to sea with a drunken captain.
In other words, a boat, already known to be too unseaworthy to make the distance, could simply be allowed to founder, without the government appearing to have any involvement whatsoever.
Marine investigators probing the mysterious loss of a Scottish trawler with all hands 27 years ago have obtained crucial new evidence that the boat was unseaworthy.
A ship is deemed to be seaworthy when she is reasonably fit in all respects to encounter the ordinary perils of the seas of the adventure insured.
Solar calculator shall be wrapped up in seaworthy waterproof paper.
The boats he boarded were unseaworthy and one became lost at sea for fourteen days after a ferocious storm.
The jury later wrote to the coroner, deploring the fact that an unseaworthy ship could put to sea with a drunken captain.
They carried a centerboard and were fast and seaworthy.
In spite of our physical trauma, our morale is good - we are alive on a seaworthy sailboat, for us to use!
His coastguard - one seaworthy ship - sailed to Poti.
The crew refused to go to sea in such an unseaworthy vessel.
Compared to the low, crowded galley, the galleass was a roomy and much more seaworthy ship. Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima
Extremely rugged and seaworthy, she was the workhorse of the oceangoing vessels of her time. INCA GOLD
He is launched onto the Indian Ocean in an unseaworthy boat bound for Australia.
In fact the vendor knew that she was unseaworthy.
Why, for example, were 400 people crammed under duress onto a leaky boat that, even if it were seaworthy, could carry no more than 150 people in safety?
He claims the council is treating him shabbily, and all he needs is a stay of execution until he can have the sailing boat seaworthy.

How To Use Seaworthy In A Sentence

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