racing yacht

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Noun1.racing yacht - an expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racingracing yacht - an expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing
vessel, watercraft - a craft designed for water transportation
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racing yacht

nyacht m inv da competizione
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The Tankadere was a neat little craft of twenty tons, as gracefully built as if she were a racing yacht. Her shining copper sheathing, her galvanised iron-work, her deck, white as ivory, betrayed the pride taken by John Bunsby in making her presentable.
The "We're Here" skirted round the northern squadron, Disko waving his hand to friend after friend, and anchored as neatly as a racing yacht at the end of the season.
Disko kept them busy fiddling with the sails; and when those were flattened like a racing yacht's, Dan had to wait on the big topsail, which was put over by hand every time she went about.
Therefore I have read with profound regret, in that article upon the yachting season of a certain year, that the seamanship on board racing yachts is not now what it used to be only a few, very few, years ago.
BON voyage to climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, who has set sail for the USA in a carbon zero, toilet-less racing yacht, with underwater turbines etc.
The Leave.EU founder responded to a post by Green party MP Caroline Lucas about Greta's voyage across the Atlantic on a racing yacht, writing: "Freak yachting accidents do happen in August ..."
CLIMATE activist Greta Thunberg has said her voyage across the Atlantic in a racing yacht to attend UN summits in New York and Chile on tackling global warming was going to be a "huge challenge".
During last year's ORC European Sailing Championship, the IronFX Racing Yacht won second place in the Corinthian Class and seventh overall improving the 2017 result when it finished fifth in the Corinthian Class and 14th overall.
"2018 will mark a new milestone on this journey, introducing an exciting new course and a dynamic and modern multihull racing yacht which will appeal to local, regional and international sailors, and provide an attractive and highly visible sponsorship platform." The pacesetting changes have been fully embraced by the event's main and long-term sponsor EFG Private Bank.
The IronFX Racing Yacht is currently participating in Class A of the World Championship with a Corinthian designation.
THE Duchess of Cambridge was taken for a thrilling high-speed ride in a racing yacht as she hooked up with Olympic legend Sir Ben Ainslie.
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