sail loft

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:05:13 +0000

The sentence that you quote is the first line of the song "Yellow Submarine", sung by the Beatles. So I have to believe that "sail to sea" is a fixed expression, although I haven't heard it in. Setting sail is fairly specifically a beginning process. There is less implication that you will get there successfully, so 'for' (intended destination) is more appropriate. You sail to a place ('to' for. Big ships, like ocean lines or aircraft carriers, "sail" but speedboats, canoes and rowboats don't sail and you don't sail them. You row a rowboat, paddle a canoe and as for speedboats, I think. You're right, the common phrase is 'set sail'. You can use 'set' with -ing verbs e.g. I saw an advert for Bali and that set me thinking about holidays. So it may have been used deliberately in the.