The excess of skilled sailors meant there was a large pool that could be recruited into national navies as well.

He has a boat, and he's a skilled sailor.

Troicinet is a major sea power, with highly skilled and daring sailors which no other power can match.

But to the less skilled sailors on the revenue cutters, who had no local knowledge, the Run acted as 'a barrier that they feared to pass'.

He's handsome and well-mannered, and most important, a skilled sailor," Kit said with a grin.

They developed a complex culture, and were master woodworkers and skilled sailors.

Fernandez was undoubtedly a skilled sailor but he appears to have been unpopular among his fellow explorers.

The Kargs are skilled sailors, fishers and farmers.

He proved himself a skilled sailor, and by far the strongest man any of them had seen.

Diego no longer needed gunners and cannon crew, only skilled sailors.