How To Use Forestay In A Sentence
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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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Each mast was lifted and guyed with the two permanent backstays and two temporary forestays.
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We lengthened the forestay by another 2 or 3 turns and in a few minutes we were sailing again.
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She was running now with a reefed forestaysail, the sheets flat amidship.
Sailing Alone Around the World
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When coming about, the crew releases the jib just as it starts to backwind and blow through the foretriangle—the space between the mast and forestay.
Sailing Fundamentals
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Compared to the flying jib and forestaysail, the Genoa has a shorter leading edge and backs the Phoresail.
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He advises that Telefónica Blue have to consider their tactics in avoiding going hard on the wind, when the risks of not having the forestay as a back up to the boltrope are more concerning.
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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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When coming about, the crew releases the jib just as it starts to backwind and blow through the foretriangle—the space between the mast and forestay.
Sailing Fundamentals
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The forestay is attached to the stem fitting, an integral part of the bow construction.
Sailing Fundamentals
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In the meanwhile the schooner lay to with backed forestaysail, tumbling wildly on a dim, grey sea.
Hawtrey's Deputy
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As the sail drops to the deck, one of the crew pulls the luff of the sail down the forestay.
Sailing Fundamentals
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John had no resource but to put up a forestaysail, and run before the gale.
In Search of the Castaways
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Her forestaysail and mizzen spanker were set as though an effort had been made to hold her head up into the wind, but the sheets had parted, and the sails were tearing to ribbons in the half gale of wind.
Tarzan of the Apes
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We had to adjust the lengths of strops from which our so-called forestay hangs several times in order to create the right bend in the mast again.
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• New watertight bulkhead glassed in to hold new inner forestay chainplate
True Spirit
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There are four major parts of the rig that may fail: the mast, forestay, backstay, and shrouds.
Sailing Fundamentals
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Run down the forestaysail and stand by to let go.
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It is an image for all time: tiny figure beneath a sky-scraping mast, Tower Bridge open to salute her, left arm hooked around the forestay with the greatest nonchalance, and right arm raised, fist clenched.
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Since the jib halyard attaches to the same place as the forestay, the load is pretty well transferred.
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The bow is long, and curves into a lofty stem, like that of a Roman galley, finished with a beak head, to secure the forestay of the mast.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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The bobstay, forestay and one running backstay were made up by my local chandler from the drawings below.
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I sailed comfortably on under the jib and forestaysail, which I now set.
Sailing Alone Around the World
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In fact, because I have an overcautious habit of pulling up the storm jib on the inner forestay whenever the weather forecast is bad and the wind rises above about 25 knots, I can actually claim to have left the safety of the cockpit in over 35 knots of wind only once.
True Spirit
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She was under staysail and forestaysail only, perfectly equilibrated, and her speed and power were awesome.
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The sloop could carry no more than a three-reefed mainsail and forestaysail; with these she held on stoutly and was not blown out of the strait.
Sailing Alone Around the World
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We prefer the ‘old way,’ a light hung near the forestay not too far above the deck.
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I hauled in the trailing ropes, hoisted this awkward sail reefed, the forestaysail being already set, and under this sail brought her at once on the wind heading for the land, which appeared as an island in the sea.
Sailing Alone Around the World
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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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The innermost part of the bowsprit, from which the forestaysail flies, is called the heel.
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• New watertight bulkhead glassed in to hold new inner forestay chainplate
True Spirit
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When the sloop was in the fiercest squalls, with only the reefed forestaysail set, even that small sail shook her from keelson to truck when it shivered by the leech.
Sailing Alone Around the World
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Burke and Sandon proceeded to tie a rope round his waist, which they afterwards fastened to the forestay; then, in a way which provoked shouts of laughter from their mates, they gave the unfortunate man a shove, and sent him rolling down like a bundle of dirty clothes on to the forecastle.
The Survivors of the Chancellor
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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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By contrast, an inner forestay and staysail can be left in place, ready to go when you need them most.
