Competed in a regatta, perhaps

Usage examples of sailed.

The following morning the Gull and the Swallow sailed in company back into Table Bay, and as soon as they had anchored under the guns of the fort the Colonel and Cumbrae went ashore.

The Golden Bough would show no flash in the moonlight when they sailed into Adulis Bay to take unawares the anchored fleet of Islam.

On each cane shaft, tied behind the iron arrowhead, was a tuft of unravelled hemp rope that had been soaked in pitch, which spluttered and then burned fiercely when touched with the slow-match, The archers loosed their arrows, which sailed up in a high, flaming parabola and dropped down to peg into the timbers of an anchored vessel.

They sailed in close company on a north-easterly heading, away from the Cape and on a closing course with the eastern reaches of the African mainland.

It was over two months since last they had sailed from this secret sally port As if to justify the name that Sir Francis had given this harbour, there came a clarion blast from the beach below the forest.

Hal stared after her miserably as she gathered her skirts and, followed by Aboli and her maid, sailed regally down the beach to the waiting pinnace.

Then, as she entered the channel between the heads and looked to have sailed clear away, the batteries hidden in the cliffs opened up on her.

I woke this morning and saw your ship was gone I thought you had sailed for home without my leave.

It was easy to see that her sails had been renewed before she sailed from Holland, and all her sheets and rigging were spanking new.

He stared at them, stupefied, as they sailed in serenely between the heads.

Limberger went on to describe how they had sailed east in company with the Lady Edwina, the transfer of cargo and gear from the caravel into the galleon, and the dispatch of the Lady Edwina in command of Schreuder to the Cape with letters of demand for ransom, the onward voyage aboard the captured galleon to Elephant Lagoon and the captivity of himself and his eminent passengers there until their salvation by the expeditionary force from the Cape, led by Schreuder and Lord Cumbrae.

When the galleon sailed in the morning with the dawn tide, Fredricus came to wake him and help him from his bunk.

Buzzard still be there when we arrive, or will he have given up his search and sailed away?

As they moved away the vultures hopped in or sailed down on great pinions, and the hyena and jackal rushed forward to gobble and howl and squabble over this charnel array.

The Golden Bough sailed on around the bulge of the southern African continent and Hal headed her up into the north.