How To Use foresail In A Sentence
- All the miracle of sails; the steady foresail; the sensitive jibs; the press canvas delicate as bubbles; the reliable main; the bluff topsails; topgallants like eager horses; the impertinent skysails; the jaunty moonraker, were just canvas stretched on poles. The Wind Bloweth
- Then amid falling shades and hollow moaning of winds the yacht drove slowly away with her foresail still aweather, and the fleet hung around awaiting the admiral's final decision. A Dream of the North Sea
- Take in the foresail — it's more than she can carry already — and stand by to wear her around. A LITTLE ACCOUNTWITH SWITHIN HALL
- A gust of wind hit them as the mizzensail was unfurled, followed by the mainsail and the foresail.
- If the foresails are labeled according to their foot length relative to the distance between the mast and forestay, then percentages are used-100 percent, 120 percent, 150 percent, etc. Sailing Fundamentals
- Then he pulled down the sails and stored the foresail - more or less folded - in the small store room under the front deck.
- Her bowsprit carries two foresails, and her large mainsail is gaff rigged, with an upside-down triangle of topsail to fill the gap at the masthead.
- We'll be through in another two minutes --" he began, and then came a terrific shock, and both he and I were jerked off the footrope, and toppled over the yard on to the bellying foresail! "Pig-Headed" Sailor Men From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902
- The Sparlin, crewed by two Spaniards, was found to have damaged rigging and was using foresail and engine.
- We reefed the foresail and set him, and hauled aft the foresheet; the helm was hard-a-weather. The Junior Classics — Volume 5
