windward leg造句

• Team New Zealand made big gains on all three windward legs.
• Neither yacht was clearly ahead until the final moments of the windward leg.
• The first windward leg had a deja-vu quality to it.
• That reduced the American boat's options to overcome Alinghi's control of the opening windward leg.
• On the final windward leg, Mosbacher was slightly ahead.
• In for a Heron the indicated windward leg length is approx 0.6 n . m ..
• The windward leg involved fifty-two tacks.
• Grael had one shot, as both boats converged on opposite tacks about halfway up the first windward leg.
• The race was all but over when the Swiss boat led by 47 seconds after the opening windward leg.
• At the completion of the second windward leg, with the race at the midway point, the lead was a whopping 63 seconds.
• But the exhausting duel paid off for Conner's boat, which was just 19 seconds behind at the turn to the second windward leg.
• Alinghi made a big tactical gain after a short-term loss on the second windward leg, tacking left to meet the building north-easterly sea breeze.
• A 45 second gain on the final windward leg left the Swiss boat comfortably ahead and it sailed to a 1 : 32 victory.
• New Zealand survived the early excitement of a tacking duel midway down the first windward leg and led by only 20 seconds rounding the mark.
• Alinghi stretched out after a close start to a 21-second lead at the first windward mark and gained 45 seconds on the final windward leg.
• The wind subsided further and the 45-minute time limit allowed for the third, three-nautical mile windward leg elapsed before they could reach the next mark.
• But midway up the first windward leg, Shoebridge rolled his foot on a loose line and went into the sea, both arms grasping for air.
• In fact, the Prada crew showed some true heart in the early going and, at one point up the first windward leg, even held the lead.
• The Swiss gained almost immediately from a 20-degree wind shift to the right and led by six lengths less than halfway up the 3.25-nautical mile windward leg.
• The American led over the first legs of the 10-nautical mile course, then lost the lead to Sydney's Michael Coxon before regaining it on the final windward leg.