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Engines on watercraft have long obviated the need to mess about with furling and unfurling canvas, luffing and gybing and all the other soggy inconveniences.
It's Alive! Vinyl Makes a Comeback Eric Felten 2012
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The question is: Can Tory joshing and gybing based on medical complaints and amateur diagnoses be shown the road too?
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The question is: Can Tory joshing and gybing based on medical complaints and amateur diagnoses be shown the road too?
Archive 2008-02-17 2008
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By this time the Skylark had come about, not by gybing, -- for the wind was too heavy to make this evolution in safety, -- but had come round head to the wind, and now passed under the stern of the Penobscot.
The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder Oliver Optic 1859
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"Now, mind your eye, all hands!" shouted Donald, as the Maud approached the north-east point of Long Island, where he had to change her course from south-east to south, which involved the necessity, with the wind north-west, of gybing, or coming about head to the wind.
The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder Oliver Optic 1859
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Bobtail ran to the west of the ledges, and, going entirely round to avoid gybing, he came up into the wind close under the stern of the Penobscot.
Little Bobtail or The Wreck of the Penobscot. Oliver Optic 1859
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There are two principal manoeuvres she demonstrates: tacking (turning the boat so the wind exerts pressure on the opposite side of the sail) and gybing (the same thing, but reserved for when the boat has the wind behind it).
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Biddy lost her hat which we turned back and retrived and things were exciting for a bit as we weaved through all the moored boats, tacking and gybing.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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But two electrifying downwind legs, twice gybing away for clear air and flatter water, diverging from the line taken by the pack, saw Cayard and crew gaining three places on each run to secure Barcelona's top trophy.
YBW News 2010
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On the water students will demonstrate as both skipper and crew while beating, reaching, running, roll tacking, roll gybing, bearing away and heading up.
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