| I gritted my teeth and swallowed hard, my thoughts briefly turning to the heavy missile batteries and the people who crewed them. |
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| Early tomorrow morning, China will send its second crewed mission into space. |
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| With a crewed charter, you don't have to worry about breakdowns or provisioning or getting checked out to sail the boat. |
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| La Paz and Loreto are home to a number of companies offering crewed trips as well as bareboat sailing charters. |
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| There are crewed or unscrewed yacht charters, bareboat or even a motorised yacht. |
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| Paramedics have told Scotland on Sunday it is likely that hundreds of lives would be saved each year if ambulances were properly crewed. |
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| The purpose-built yacht is crewed by four to five professional sailors, out of whom only the skipper is paid a salary. |
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| Partially disabled, his craft is captured by a huge, whale-like space vessel crewed by a handful of rather unfriendly aliens. |
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| Every form of sailing imaginable is on offer here, from beginners' dinghy lessons on the lake-like waters of North Sound to fully crewed yachts. |
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| And he says it's a classic example of why only Australian-owned and crewed ships should be allowed in Australian waters. |
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| They eventually found two boats, one of them a fishing vessel crewed by Thais which had been seized off Somalia. |
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| The Sparlin, crewed by two Spaniards, was found to have damaged rigging and was using foresail and engine. |
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| On 11 August 1979, 303 yachts, crewed by some 3,000 yachtsmen, left Cowes in the Isle of Wight to begin the 600 mile Fastnet Race. |
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| Earnhardt compares the chemistry to what he developed with Kirk Shelmerdine, who crewed for four of Earnhardt's championship seasons. |
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| Offspring also crewed with Claude Theiler, Chris Goedhart, Andrew Dove from Guadeloupe and Pedro Jonker from St. Maarten. |
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| So he backpacked across New Zealand, then crewed on a sailboat in the Gulf of Mexico. |
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| But most members of the Liverpool Pedalo Club who crewed with Mark Latham see him in a very different light. |
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| Ed and Joe got involved with the round-Britain challenge when they crewed for the owners John and Lisa Forbes to bring the yacht to Plymouth. |
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| Still, Warthen, who also crewed for the Real World season set in Seattle, and Kunitz agree this is the most open cast of any previous episodes. |
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| Between the hours of 9am and 6 pm these appliances will not be crewed unless a dire emergency arises. |
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| On November 3 an underwater path to safety was marked with stakes and lined with a chain of small boats crewed by firefighters. |
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| The staff that crewed the vehicles worked for six weeks, on standby 24 hours a day, seven days a week, before they got a week off. |
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| But, your Honour, what we submit in relation to the conventions is that here you have a vessel which is flagged, crewed and owned by foreign people and foreign companies. |
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| Both bareboat and crewed yachts are available for as long as you require. |
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| Pilgrim, helmed by Graham Tullett and expertly crewed by owner Mark Ormerod, led from start to finish over the north lake course to conclude an excellent season's results. |
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| His brother Robin, 33, crewed the boat at the last minute and left a pregnant wife to grieve and to bring up a child who will never know his father. |
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| The ships are crewed by 72 Royal Fleet Auxiliary personnel and there is also provision for 26 Royal Navy personnel for helicopter and weapons systems operations. |
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| The missile system most likely used to shoot down Malaysia Airline MH17 is common, lethal, and crewed by men with little training. |
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| Catamaran rides with underwater views, dolphin watching, bareboat or crewed boat rentals for private rides or deep-sea fishing? |
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| A fair number of crewed charter boats, both power and sail, are based in the marinas, but no bareboat firms were to be found when I visited a few months ago. |
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| The skiffs were crewed by teams from pubs and clubs in the area. |
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| Only about 45 Australian flagged and crewed vessels remain in business. |
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| Besides being crewed by professionals, the vessel is also specially designed for challenging seas and will right itself if capsized. |
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| There every boat is crewed, the men armed with billhooks spear the fish and pull them thrashing from the water, as the Mattanza continues the sea turns red with blood. |
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| The biggest supertrawlers can be crewed by only 20 men: essentially they have substituted fuel for labour. |
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| Of course it's our only crewed race this season, and it should let us check the results of all our work to date and see what remains to be done. |
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| When icebreakers and other vessels are berthed for extended periods for maintenance or modernization, they continue to be fully crewed. |
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| Indeed, many of the tankers and transport aircraft that support overseas operations are also crewed by reservists. |
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| The Queen of Oak Bay was certified, equipped, and crewed in accordance with existing regulations. |
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| Rather, it was decided that the number of crewed patrol vessels would be reduced. |
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| Then our volunteers are crewed with other experienced members and given their final check-out to attain full certification. |
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| Saab test pilots Mikael Seidl and Magnus Ljungdahl crewed the first flight with Gripen Demo. |
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| Last year CSL used the permit system to reflag and rename the Australian registered and crewed River Torrens and bring it back to the coast as the CSL Pacific. |
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| On the flip side, I do believe that if it is ever completed and fully crewed it will be producing significant amounts of first-class research in microgravity. |
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| The future role of Nasa has been thrown into question by a high-profile report that concludes the agency is not able to send crewed missions to the Moon and Mars on its own. |
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| The W-54 was the main warhead used on the Davy Crockett nuclear recoilless rifle, a portable warhead launcher that was crewed by a single soldier. |
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| Seine boats are usually crewed by five to seven fishermen. |
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| Operating a hospital ship crewed by volunteers, serving field locations around the world, Mercy Ships works to increase the capacity of each host nation to serve the dire needs of the local population. |
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| There are only 12 voyages that have succeeded in circumnavigating the globe on fully crewed multihulls before. |
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| The Space Shuttle and Soyuz regularly carry multinational crews, and high overhead the International Space Station shines as a beacon of hope, built by sixteen of the world's leading nations, crewed by citizens of Earth. |
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| The Agency noted that the primary purpose of the Coasting Trade Act is to protect the interests of Canadian shipowners who have made significant investments through having Canadian built, registered and crewed vessels. |
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| An emergency involving a passenger ferry will require more resources to be dispatched, for example, than an incident involving a sailing vessel crewed by five people. |
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| It determined that the service can only be implemented with a purpose-built modern ship crewed with Canadians that can meet the cost threshold for a commercially viable service. |
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| Bristol was also the port from which John Cabot sailed in 1497, crewed mostly by Bristol sailors. |
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| The aircraft was crewed by a pilot and an observer, and they had been tasked by the British Columbia Forest Service to detect and report smoke or forest fires. |
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| As each vessel would be crewed by 17 ordinary men and women led by a professional skipper, it was also vital that crews have total trust in the equipment they would be using. |
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| I had crewed for him once or twice, cack-handedly. He only took me out, I think, because for some reason he thought I was good for a laugh. |
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| Steele crewed the boat with men from his own regiment and volunteers from John Wood's detachment. |
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| These boats were crewed by three men, who operated a watch system whereby two men worked while the other slept. |
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| These trips can be singlehanded or the vessel may be crewed by families or groups of friends. |
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| This set a new world record for a transatlantic crossing by women, beating the previous crewed record as well as the singlehanded version. |
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| The Coast Guard vessel was chartered by the Voyage of Rediscovery and crewed by volunteers. |
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| He hired a vessel crewed by Corinthians, whom he felt he could trust, but the sailors plotted to throw him overboard and seize his wealth. |
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| Traditionally, they were political opponents of the eunuch establishment, but also to the military establishments who crewed the fleet. |
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| The Xingcha Shenglan states that the fourth voyage consisted of 63 treasure ships crewed by 27,670 men. |
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| The 86-foot Zephyrus V, owned by the Californian Bob McNeil, joined 61 other yachts in the lineup for this summer's DaimlerChrysler North Atlantic Challenge, a trans-Atlantic race for fully crewed, monohulled yachts. |
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| His tiny restaurant, a former smokehouse and cooperage tucked away behind the harbour in a Fife fishing village, is run as the tightest of ships, crewed by just four twowo in the kitchen, two front of house. |
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| As shown in Exhibit 23.3, the Earl Grey, operating on the lay day system, not only costs less but was used more than two conventionally crewed ships. |
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| In cases where the vessel is crewed, the crew members flee or try to pass as migrants, often successfully. Why are people risking this awful journey? |
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| Even if the country's somewhat vague plans for a crewed landing and perhaps even a permanently occupied base fail to come off, several more robotic missions are planned. |
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| Mr Nash helped the officials burn the beached boat, then drove off to resume his 'roo-shooting. Since early November, almost 900 illegal immigrants have landed on Australia's northern shores in boats crewed by Indonesians. |
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| The Volvo Ocean Race is a crewed race with stops which sails the clipper route every four years. |
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| He crewed on a gillnetter until 1982, before switching back to hook-and-line, but the stocks of cod and other fish had already begun to dwindle markedly. |
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| This incredible average speed has also meant that Sidney has beaten the existing fully crewed record time set by Steve Fosset onboard Paystation, by 1 hour and 7 seconds. |
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