Symonds joined his friend Brown for holidays in Venice, when they liked to drift through the lagoons in Brown's sandolo, called Fisole, which had orange sails decorated with a fleur-de-lis, or to play tre sette or bocce.

The hotel nudges the mild Caribbean, and each day the seascape was dotted with bright pink and orange sails (windsurfing, waterskiing and sailing equipment can easily be rented).

Her yellow and orange sail is far out, and the craft is coming this way on a starboard tack, since the wind is behind me.

By the time he reached the royal dock, the orange sails of the sampan were snapping in the wind.

"And look, isn't that an orange sail?"

Then, beyond the roofs, I saw that several strange-looking vessels were moored at a sort of mole, flaunting their orange sails in the sunlight.

Now I came to the waterfront, where the vessels with orange sails were moored at a stone mole.

"Aye, aye skipper," the young man called from the bow as Killashandra watched the vivid red and orange sail bellying out briefly over the bowsprit before the wind caught it.

Their bronzed orange sails caught the wind and they tacked in unison, almost escorting her.

The breast is purple with two vertical white bars, and the flanks ruddy, with two orange "sails" at the back.