How To Use Foresail In A Sentence
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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
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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
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Take in the foresail — it's more than she can carry already — and stand by to wear her around.
A LITTLE ACCOUNTWITH SWITHIN HALL
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A gust of wind hit them as the mizzensail was unfurled, followed by the mainsail and the foresail.
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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
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Then he pulled down the sails and stored the foresail - more or less folded - in the small store room under the front deck.
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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.
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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
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The Sparlin, crewed by two Spaniards, was found to have damaged rigging and was using foresail and engine.
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We reefed the foresail and set him, and hauled aft the foresheet; the helm was hard-a-weather.
The Junior Classics — Volume 5
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Ere I went below I heard Captain West tell Mr. Pike that while both watches were on deck it would be just as well to put a reef in the foresail before they furled it.
CHAPTER XXXIII
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Bowdoin carries four sails; a jib and forestaysail forward of the foremast, a foresail, and a mainsail.
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The gale continued varying from N.E. to E.S. E. without increasing much, until the 31st, when it blew away our reefed foresail, and close-reefed main-topsail; fortunately, the sea did not rise in proportion to the strength of the gale, or we must have lost all our boats.
The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
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The cheerful sailor crept forward and jibed over the foresail as Charley put the helm to starboard and we swerved to the right into the San Joaquin.
Charley's Coup
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There was also the Cutter, also single masted but she had a Gaff Mainsail, square topsail and Foresail.
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The awful volume of sound given out by the fierce, headlong swoop of the wind as it bore down upon us quite prepared me to see both masts blown clean out of the schooner; but all her gear fortunately happened to be sound and good, and the loss of the foresail was the full extent of the damage sustained by us.
The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast
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I used the concept of the sailing boat rig with foresail and mainsail in the 70's as a very slow flying hang glider.
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The air was thick with flying wreckage, detached ropes and stays were hissing and coiling like snakes, and down through it all crashed the gaff of the foresail.
Chapter 17
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Slip 'em in the smother," shouted Long Jack, making fast the jib-sheet, while the others raised the clacking, rattling rings of the foresail; and the foreboom creaked as the 'We're Here' looked up into the wind and dived off into blank, whirling white.
Captains Courageous
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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.
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In the morning we set our foresail, meaning to bear up to the northward, standing off and on to keep away from the current, which otherwise would have set us to the south, away from, all known land.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
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It was a clumsy way, but it did not take long, and soon the foresail as well was up and fluttering.
Chapter 39
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The foresail and fore-topsail, emptied of the wind by the manoeuvre, and with no one to bring in the sheet in time, were thundering into ribbons, the heavy boom threshing and splintering from rail to rail.
Chapter 17
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Sails can be divided into four main categories: mains (and mizzens), foresails (what we have been calling jibs), staysails, and spinnakers.
Sailing Fundamentals
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It's the one the sheet is attached to on a foresail, and the one the outhaul is attached to on the main.
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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.
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The Jessie swung off under her full staysail, then the foresail, double-reefed, was run up.
Chapter 3
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Set foresail and forestay – sail and steered south – east by south.
South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917
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Boats had low aspect mains, small foretriangles, fractional rigs and no lapping foresails.
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She was running before the wind -- yawing frightfully -- her staysail let down to act as a sort of extra foresail, -- "scandalized," they call it, -- and her foreboom guyed out over the side.
Captains Courageous
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Southern hemisphere ships and non-Venn ships of the north were all fore-and-aft rigged, though many had square foretopsails; raffees had square foresails with triangular foretopsails.
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The cheerful sailor crept forward and jibed over the foresail as Charley put the helm to starboard and we swerved to the right into the San Joaquin.
Charley's Coup
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The river straightened out here into its general easterly course, and we squared away before the wind, wing-and-wing once more, the foresail bellying out to starboard.
Charley's Coup
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Next we had to set the course sail, the top sail of the forward mast, then the foresails out over the bowsprit.
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Other ships on the high-seas in the late 1700's and up to the end of the 1800's were the sloop, a single masted ship that could carry a mainsail, topsail and foresail.
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Other ships on the high-seas in the late 1700's and up to the end of the 1800's were the sloop, a single masted ship that could carry a mainsail, topsail and foresail.
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Blow, sweet breeze," said D----, half to himself, half aloud; and casting his eyes, alternately from the flying jib and foresail to the swelling gaff-topsail, stooped down and looked under the boom at the land.
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
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We had been under lower-topsails and a reefed foresail all night.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
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We reefed the foresail and set him, we hauled aft the foresheet; the helm was hard aweather.
Gulliver's Travels
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The foresail and fore-topsail, emptied of the wind by the manoeuvre, and with no one to bring in the sheet in time, were thundering into ribbons, the heavy boom threshing and splintering from rail to rail.
Chapter 17
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Our bobstay snapped like sealing-wax, our mainsail rent like ribbon, our foresail flew away, and she would not answer her helm, and we remained in the trough of the waves, which rose awfully high.
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
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Jack thought they had weathered the worst of it, when the foresheet parted and the clew of the foresail, going through the lower foretopsail, split it in ribbons.
Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle
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She lingered, finally, over the _Metacom_, running her easting down far to the southward with square yards under a close-reefed maintop sail, double-reefed foresail and forestaysail, dead before a gale and gigantic long seas hurling the ship on in the bleak watery desolation.
Java Head
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Next we had to set the course sail, the top sail of the forward mast, then the foresails out over the bowsprit.
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The foresail was a large one, and it almost becalmed the jib.
All Adrift or The Goldwing Club
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When a sloop is hove to she is stopped in the water by her foresail being sheeted aback, on the windward side.
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The sails on the lower yards are the foresail, mainsail and crossjack, or, as they are often called, fore-course, main-course and mizzen-course -- the course being the sail, just as a sheet is a rope and not a piece of canvas.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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A gust of wind hit them as the mizzensail was unfurled, followed by the mainsail and the foresail.
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Grief ordered the foresail put on, retaining the reefs, and the Uncle
A LITTLE ACCOUNTWITH SWITHIN HALL
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In a few seconds we slipped our moorings, and jib, foresail, and gaff-topsail were hauled out to the wind, and the main tack dropped, sooner than I have written it.
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
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A mizzen mast, near the stern carried a fore and aft sail; another sail was spread below the bowsprit, and smaller topsails were set above the mainsail and foresail.
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There is a good deal of what I call a lubber's fuss, parson, kept up on board a ship that shall be nameless, but which bears, about three leagues distant, broad off in the ocean, and which is lying to under a close-reefed maintopsail, a foretopmast-staysail, and foresail -- I call my hand a true one in mixing a can -- take another pull at the halyards!
The Pilot
