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Sailing Directions

Sailing Directions are official descriptive pilotage publications issued by national hydrographic offices, providing written coastal, port-approach, and passage-planning information to supplement nautical charts; main producers include NGA, NOAA, and the UK Hydrographic Office.

Sailing ship

A sailing ship is a vessel propelled primarily by sails, which carried most world trade and exploration through the Age of Sail until steam took over.

Sailing stones

Sailing stones, also called sliding rocks, are rocks that move across Racetrack Playa, a dry lakebed in Death Valley, California, leaving long trails in the mud.

Sailing the Seas of Cheese

Sailing the Seas of Cheese is Primus's second studio album, released May 14, 1991 on Interscope; the funk-metal trio's major-label debut went gold by 1993 via MTV singles "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" and "Tommy the Cat."

Sailing to Byzantium

Sailing to Byzantium, W. B. Yeats's 1926 ottava rima poem first published in October Blast (1927) and opening The Tower (1928), follows an aging speaker's imagined journey to Byzantium, symbol of art, religion, and eternity, source of the line "That is no country for old men."

Sailor

A sailor, also called a seaman or seafarer, is a person who works aboard a vessel at sea, in the merchant marine, navies, or fishing fleets.

Sailor Jerry

Sailor Jerry, born Norman Keith Collins (1911–1973), was a Honolulu tattoo artist who defined American traditional tattooing and whose name now fronts a William Grant & Sons spiced rum.

Sailor Jupiter

Sailor Jupiter, civilian name Makoto Kino (木野まこと, dub name Lita), is the thunder-and-courage Sailor Guardian of planet Jupiter in Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon; strong, orphaned, loves cooking and gardening, debuted in manga Act 5 and anime episode 25.

Sailor Mars (火野レイ)

Sailor Mars, civilian name Rei Hino (火野レイ), is the fire-wielding Sailor Guardian of Mars in Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon manga and anime; a Shinto shrine maiden at Hikawa Shrine, voiced by Michie Tomizawa in the 1990s anime and Rina Satō in Crystal.

Sailor Mercury (セーラーマーキュリー)

Sailor Mercury (セーラーマーキュリー) is the Guardian of water and wisdom in Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon, the superhero identity of genius schoolgirl Mizuno Ami (水野亜美), IQ 300, second Inner Guardian recruited by Luna.

Sailor Moon

Sailor Moon (美少女戦士セーラームーン, Pretty Soldier/Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon) is Naoko Takeuchi's shōjo manga serialized in Nakayoshi from 1992 to 1997, adapted by Toei into an anime from March 1992, about Usagi Tsukino, guardian of love and justice.

Sailor Moon (character)

Sailor Moon, aka Usagi Tsukino (Serena Tsukino in the 1995 dub), is Naoko Takeuchi's 14-year-old magical girl heroine, guardian of love and justice and secretly Princess Serenity, star of the 1991-1997 manga and 1992-1997 anime.

Sailor Moon (美少女戦士セーラームーン) (TV series)

Sailor Moon (美少女戦士セーラームーン, Bishōjo Senshi Sērā Mūn) is Toei Animation's 1992–1997 magical girl TV anime based on Naoko Takeuchi's manga: five seasons, 200 episodes on TV Asahi, broadcast in about 40 countries, with merchandise sales around 20 billion yen per year.

Sailor Moon Crystal (美少女戦士セーラームーンクリスタル)

Sailor Moon Crystal (美少女戦士セーラームーンクリスタル) is Toei Animation's 2014 manga-faithful re-adaptation of Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon: 39 TV episodes across three seasons plus the Eternal (2021) and Cosmos (2023) films, debuting on Niconico July 5, 2014.

Sailor Moon Eternal (劇場版 美少女戦士セーラームーンEternal)

Sailor Moon Eternal (劇場版 美少女戦士セーラームーンEternal) is a 2021 two-part anime film adapting the Sailor Moon manga's Dead Moon arc as a continuation of Sailor Moon Crystal, released January 8 and February 11, 2021, directed by Chiaki Kon.

Sailor Moon R: The Movie (劇場版美少女戦士セーラームーンR)

Sailor Moon R: The Movie (劇場版美少女戦士セーラームーンR), the first Sailor Moon theatrical film, released December 5, 1993 by Toei; directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara, 60 minutes, pitting Sailor Moon against the alien Fiore and the flower demon Kisenian.

Sailor Moon S: The Movie (劇場版美少女戦士セーラームーンS)

Sailor Moon S: The Movie (劇場版美少女戦士セーラームーンS, also The Lover of Princess Kaguya) is Toei Animation's 1994 second Sailor Moon theatrical film, directed by Hiroki Shibata, telling Luna's love story against Princess Snow Kaguya's attempt to freeze Earth.

Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie (美少女戦士セーラームーンSuperS セーラー9戦士集結!ブラック・ドリーム・ホールの奇跡)

Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie (Black Dream Hole) is Toei's 1995, 60-minute third theatrical Sailor Moon film, directed by Hiroki Shibata, in which Badiane harvests children's dream energy; released December 23, 1995 with the Ami-chan's First Love short.

Sailor Neptune (セーラーネプチューン)

Sailor Neptune (セーラーネプチューン), civilian Kaioh Michiru, is the deep-sea Sailor Guardian of planet Neptune in Sailor Moon: violinist, Deep Aqua Mirror talisman, partner of Sailor Uranus.

Sailor Pluto

Sailor Pluto, whose civilian identity is Setsuna Meiou, is a fictional character in the Sailor Moon franchise. She is the guardian of the Door of Space and Time.

Sailor Saturn (セーラーサターン)

Sailor Saturn (セーラーサターン), civilian identity Hotaru Tomoe (土萠ほたる), is the Sailor Moon guardian of silence and destruction wielding the Silence Glaive, whose world-destroying power costs her life in the anime but not the manga.

Sailor Song (song)

Sailor Song is a 2024 indie-folk single by American singer-songwriter Gigi Perez, self-released July 26, 2024 and later licensed to Island Records. The sapphic love ballad went viral on TikTok, hit UK No. 1 in November 2024, and passed a billion Spotify streams.

Sailor Starlights (セーラースターライツ)

Sailor Starlights (セーラースターライツ), also the Three Lights, are Sailor Moon's final Senshi trio: Kou Seiya, Taiki and Yaten, idols from destroyed Kinmoku seeking Princess Kakyuu, fighting Galaxia alongside Sailor Moon.

Sailor Uranus (セーラーウラヌス)

Sailor Uranus (セーラーウラヌス) is a fictional character in Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon franchise, the superheroine identity of the androgynous race driver Haruka Tenou and partner of Sailor Neptune.

Sailor Venus

Sailor Venus (セーラーヴィーナス), Minako Aino, is the Soldier of Love and Beauty in Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon; she debuted as Sailor V in Codename: Sailor V (1991), leads the Inner Guardians in the manga, and impersonated the Moon Princess as a decoy.

Sailorr

SAILORR (Kayla Le, born 1998) is a Vietnamese-American alt-R&B singer from Jacksonville, Florida, formerly Sailor Goon on SoundCloud, whose viral 2024 single "Pookie's Requiem" led to the 2025 debut album From Florida's Finest and a Doja Cat tour slot.

Sailors Gang

Sailors Gang, also billed as Sailors 254, is a Kenyan gengetone group formed in Nairobi in 2017, whose members included Miracle Baby, Shalkido, and Lexxy Yung.

Sailors' Snug Harbor

Sailors' Snug Harbor is a charitable institution from Captain Robert Randall's 1801 will, whose Staten Island retirement home for aged sailors operated from 1833 to the mid-1970s.

Sailors' superstitions

Sailors' superstitions are the traditional beliefs of seafarers and fishing communities that certain actions, objects, words, or events bring good or bad luck, such as avoiding whistling or Friday sailings.

SailPoint

SailPoint is an American identity security software company in Austin, Texas, founded in 2005 and a pioneer of identity governance; its products are Identity Security Cloud and IdentityIQ.