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You won’t find many notable temples, palaces, or other historic sites, but visitors to Lombok are rewarded with the pleasures of the island’s relaxed, rustic ways: the sight of water buffaloes and their calves; hens, and chicks dashing across your path; sudden views of blue sea dotted with sails.
Tiny fishing villages hide among the palm trees and the sea is flecked with bright lateen sails of prahus out after tuna and snapper.
The Caribbean School of Aquatics in San Juan (Tel. 728-6606) has a 50-ft (15-m) catamaran for day sails.
When the Anglo-Saxons wanted a word to express the activity of traveling in a ship powered by wind in sails, they saved themselves a lot of breath by forming the verb sail .
Here the sails and tiller match the windmill and its vane, orienting the fan to capture the transient wind and extract mechanical work.