sailing

The skill required to operate and navigate a vessel; navigation.

The sport of operating or riding in a sailboat.

Departure or time of departure from a port.

The act of one who or of that which sails.

The art or rules of navigation; the art or the act of directing a ship on a given line laid down in a chart; also, the rules by which a ship’s tack is determined and represented on a chart, and by which the problems relating to it are solved.

The act of one who, or that which, sails; the motion of a vessel on water, impelled by wind or steam; the act of starting on a voyage.

The art of managing a vessel; seamanship; navigation.

formerly, a warrant officer, ranking next below a lieutenant, whose duties were to navigate the vessel; and under the direction of the executive officer, to attend to the stowage of the hold, to the cables, rigging, etc. The grade was merged in that of master in 1862.

Motion across a body of water in a craft powered by the wind, as a sport or otherwise

Navigation; the skill needed to operate and navigate a vessel