Soar behind a boat

Usage examples of parasail.

Lake Tahoe, suspended from the parasail under a red-and-white canopy that billowed over his head like an old-fashioned round parachute.

Reasoning that the obvious was often the most innocuous, they had flashed a wad of bills and their NUMA IDs and persuaded the owner of the parasail and the winch boat to spare his equipment for a few hours.

Zavala stow the Skyrider and parasail, then he opened a waterproof bag and dug out a sketch pad and pen.

All she saw was the parasail, and not the sky-boat beneath it, but she knew it marked the Tartar camp.

Up close, she saw the light boat-shaped hull had four big wheels, so it could be hauled like a wagon when the parasail was deflated.

They leaned stolidly against the bucking, vibrating walls of the riveted metal box, packed in their cocoons of parasail and body harness, strapped about with personal equipment and weapons like so many deadly slate-grey Christmas trees.

For a couple of minutes after the module landed, the parasail continued to flap.

One showed a cracked adhesion point where the descent parasail had been attached.

Now the kayak hung under a delta-shaped parasail, supported by a dozen nylon risers that rose from strategic positions along the upper hull.

The hull of my kayak lost its glint and the parasail above me quit catching the light as this vertical terminator moved past and above me.

The kayak and its parasail bucked and rocked in sudden downdrafts and elevator-quick lifts of thermals.

The parasail rippled and tore at the risers as heated air and imploding vacuums battered us.

I was sure that the risers were going to collapse, the kayak and I were going to fall into the parasail shroud, and we would fall for minutes -- hours -- until pressure and heat ended my screaming.

Several times the drifting parasail took me into a cloud tower and I raised my face to the dripping fog, licking droplets from my lips and chin.

Once, just after the halo that was the sun above had passed the zenith, the kayak was blown into a particularly rough patch of climbing cloud, and the parasail almost folded in the violent updraft.