He may not realize it, but, in keeping his machine on an even keel, he is unconsciously balancing it against the horizon, and with the horizon gone he is lost indeed.
They induce a man to make use of his own back and beam in order to keep the boat on an even keel.
The keelless boat requires a sharp catch up at the beginning to get the best pace out of it, and it also requires more 'sitting' to keep it on an even keel.
He must not try to row too fast a stroke; a quick stroke hides faults, and speed tends to keep a light craft on an even keelso long as her crew are fresh; but style is not learned while oarsmen or scullers are straining their utmost.
He will be likely in such craft to contract feather under water, and possibly screwing, in the efforts to obtain work on an even keel, after his own uneven action has conduced to rolling.
But he brought her to even keel so easily that he felt all the mastery of the man who has finally learned to be natural on a bicycle.
His hands played swiftly, incessantly, over the control as he brought her back to even keel.
He shot down to gain momentum, brought her to even keel, and, as he set her nose up again, laughed boisterously.
It was running on an even keel, twenty-five feet above the sloping ground, while Carl hung easily by the double bar beneath, like a circus performer with a trapeze under each arm.
Following the desperadoes came the Huahine women, and as they went overboard, the Rattler sank on an even keelclose to the base of the Rock.
On the beach, on even keel, rested the strange schooner.
For the moment the poop was clear of water and the Malahini on an even keel.
The object of this arrangement is to decrease the angle of incidence at the rising end, and increase the angle at the depressed end, and thus, by manually- operated means keep the machine on an even keel.
The tail E, with its unchanged angle, does not, in any degree, aid in maintaining the frame on an even keel.
Now it is obvious that in order to ascend, in either case, the changing of the planes to a greater angle would raise the machine, but at the same time keep the body on an even keel.
This is so arranged that by leaning toward the high point of his wing planes the aeroplane is restored to an even keel.
A movement of the hands or feet and the machine has changed its course, or, if the equilibrium is threatened, is back on an even keel.
It matters little what particular spot is selected so long as the weight does not tend to overbalance the machine, or to "throw it off an even keel.
It is to prolong the forward movement as much as possible that the operator shifts the center of gravity slightly, bringing the apparatus on an even keel as it were by lowering the advancing edges.
When the required depth is reached swift turns of two big brass wheels set the horizontal rudders that check the descent and keep the boat on an even keel.
Most of the underwater boats to-day sink rapidly on an even keel.
On an even keel, the young submarine expert threw compressed air into the forward tanks, expelling the water, at the same time admitting water to the tanks aft.
In turn each machine would come to an even keel at a point set, drop its bombs and dart away.
Behind the Aviatik and on an even keel under it, he knew their position to be ideal for hitting the Boche plane.
When he again brought it to an even keel it was under the Boche plane and a little to its rear.
The yacht, completing the manoeuvre, headed into the wind with slatting canvas, and righted to an even keel.
The Reindeer righted very slowly, and when she was on an even keel was so much awash that I doubted if she could be saved.
The wind, from which we had been running away on an even keel, now caught us on our beam, and the Mary Rebecca was pressed down on her port side as if she were about to capsize.
And suppose in addition that, instead of merely resting on an even keel, he should presently begin to forge ahead again?
In this way, responding to the action of its elevator, the craft will pause in its downward rush, and sweep forward again upon an even keel.
Hal's training in blind-flying stood him in good stead here, for relying on his marvelous earth inductor compass and his instrument of artificial horizon, he managed to keep an even keel.
At times the wind ship seemed to whirl completely around, yet mostly it was held to an even keel.
As control of self came to him, he straightened back into position and fought to bring his mad ship to an even keel.
The above instruments were to stabilize the plane, to keep it to an even keel in flight mostly.
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