How To Use gybe In A Sentence
- The wind got behind the mainsail, and the yacht gybed. The Short Forever
- “The yacht gybed, and James went overboard, then I did.” The Short Forever
- Here Krantzius in the first place beginneth with such a gybe The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
- Starboard gybe is obviously safer than port, and clear air is vital.
- We are currently on a port gybe and will probably have to gybe twice more before we can get lined up for the final dash to the finish.
- Some time elapsed, for it was blowing strong, before the main sheet could be hauled in to gybe the sail; during which the cutter was running along the shoal or bar in ten feet water, which was not sufficient to float her; for she struck the ground violently every time that the swell passed by. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
- The incident, which could have easily ended in tragedy, occurred last spring during a regional tune-up race when the Beneteau, Epic, had an accidental gybe and broached in a 34-knot gust.
- And th 'end was the larboard halyards broke, an' the mare gybed, an 'to Torrington I went before the wind, wi' an unseemly bloody nose. The Splendid Spur
- Starboard gybe is obviously safer than port, and clear air is vital.
- Princess gybed neatly enough; the big lugsails flapped thunderously for a moment and then as the sheets were eased off she lay over close hauled on the other tack. Hornblower And The Crisis