He untied it and let it fall, then sculled the boat through the calmer water toward the sheltered port.

By 1960, yachts started using Horta's sheltered port during transatlantic voyages.

The risk to businesses, particularly shipping, caused many companies to move their facilities to the safer, sheltered port of Houston.

Others have argued that the Spanish government's refusal to allow the ship to take refuge in a sheltered port was a major contributing factor to the scale of the disaster.

It continues to be used also in small dedicated ferry berths often operating to berths without sheltered ports.

Its ideal location and large sheltered port have nonetheless allowed Pointe-à-Pitre to become Guadeloupe's largest city and economic capital.

The bay, Petit Cul-de-Sac Marin, offers a sheltered port.

The marshes nearby were drained turning the village of Orford into a sheltered port.

Had she come to find on the coast a sheltered port for the winter months?

The sheltered port of Cap-aux-Meules is an important fishing harbour, as well as a commercial cargo and ferry port.