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  • In addition to new franchises, in the next 12 months SailTime is launching various membership types offering boaters preferred access: to a fleet and/or a specific boat; locally and/or nationally; for power-boats and/or for sail-boats.

    Matt Wilson: You Don't Need to be Rich to Run a Fractional Yacht Ownership Franchise Matt Wilson 2010

  • In addition to new franchises, in the next 12 months SailTime is launching various membership types offering boaters preferred access: to a fleet and/or a specific boat; locally and/or nationally; for power-boats and/or for sail-boats.

    Matt Wilson: You Don't Need to be Rich to Run a Fractional Yacht Ownership Franchise Matt Wilson 2010

  • Single dromedaries were stepping along, their riders lolling on their hunches; low sail-boats were lying in the canals; now, we crossed an old marble bridge; now, we went, one by one, over a ridge of slippery earth; now, we floundered through a small lake of mud.

    Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

  • I consequently worked flat out from morning to six in the evening, progressing from sail-boats via scent bottles to fishes, horses, bowls and vases.

    Shattered Francis, Dick 2000

  • The wind, too, died away, and the river became so smooth that the row-boats could be laden almost to the gunwale, and a favoring breeze sprang up for the sail-boats, too.

    Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

  • The wind, too, died away, and the river became so smooth that the row-boats could be laden almost to the gunwale, and a favoring breeze sprang up for the sail-boats, too.

    Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

  • It is a plain, modestly appointed apartment, overlooking a broad sheet of water; and I can see, from where I like to sit and read, the sail-boats go tilting by, and glancing across the bay.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 Various

  • I see the sail-boats bending under their canvas and dashing the salt spray from their bows as they rush through the smooth water, and the oyster-boats cleaving the clear brine like an arrow, bound for Fair Haven, of many shell-fish; while sturdy sloops and schooners -- suggestive of lobsters or pineapples -- bow their big heads meekly and sway themselves at rest.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

  • We had heard of large sail-boats being hauled from Yuma and launched by the ranch.

    Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico

  • The sun rose unclouded above the hills, sending down his beams upon the desolation which the night had wrought, lighting up the islands and the blue waters, flecked with sail-boats.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various

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