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UK
/mˈeɪnʃiːt/
]
NOUN
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
How To Use mainsheet In A Sentence
- He let go the mainsheet - then reached over and released the halyard for the mainsail - which lowered the boom.
- Doing OK though, until I round the windward mark and discover that my mainsheet has tied itself into a triple buntline carrick bend double surgeon's clinch knot inside a double fisherman's alpine butterfly rolling hitch and so I am unable to sheet out and bear away. Proper Course
- He knew already the empty windiness of its threats, but he was careful of the mainsheet blocks, and walked around the traveller instead of over it. CHAPTER IV
- Most 28s have tiller steering that is easily put out of the way at anchor and the mainsheet attaches aft of the cockpit so as to not interfere with passengers.
- The Ghost swung around into the wind, and I finished my work forward in time to run aft and lend a hand with the mainsheet. Chapter 25
- ‘Let's go,’ Scully calls, orchestrating a jury rig to handle the sail while he splices in a new mainsheet.
- It once again tries blowing over, and I think someone else came over and uncleated the mainsheet.
- With clenched teeth sat the boat-steerer, grasping the steering oar firmly with both hands, his restless eyes on the alert -- a glance at the schooner ahead, as we rose on a sea, another at the mainsheet, and then one astern where the dark ripple of the wind on the water told him of a coming puff or a large white-cap that threatened to overwhelm us. Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan
- This necessitated frequent tacks, so that, overhead, the mainsail was ever swooping across from port tack to starboard tack and back again, making air-noises like the swish of wings, sharply rat-tat-tatting its reef points and loudly crashing its mainsheet gear along the traveller. CHAPTER III
- If you pull the mainsheet, then you also pull the inhaul and if you ease the mainsheet then you also ease the inhaul.