How To Use Mainsheet In A Sentence
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He let go the mainsheet - then reached over and released the halyard for the mainsail - which lowered the boom.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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‘Let's go,’ Scully calls, orchestrating a jury rig to handle the sail while he splices in a new mainsheet.
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It once again tries blowing over, and I think someone else came over and uncleated the mainsheet.
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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
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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
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If you pull the mainsheet, then you also pull the inhaul and if you ease the mainsheet then you also ease the inhaul.
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Jump! he could hear Skipper shouting loudly; also he heard the high note of the mainsheet screaming across the sheaves as Van Horn, bending braces in the dark, was swiftly slacking the sheet through his scorching palms with a single turn on the cleat.
CHAPTER V
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But he was deflected by the crash of the mainsheet blocks on the stout deck-traveller, as the mainsail, emptied of the wind and feeling the wind on the other side, swung crazily across above him.
CHAPTER II
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I've been passed more than once on the race course by a Laser sailor with a mainsheet clinched firmly in his teeth while I was fiddling to get something positioned just right.
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It could take a non-sailor hours to figure out which one to pull to trim (roughly, to adjust) the mainsheet.
Times, Sunday Times
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The mainsheet traveler is located on the cabin top forward of the companionway and out of the way of the dodger and cockpit bimini.
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He trotted across the level deck to Skipper, who, standing erect on wide-spread legs, the bight of the mainsheet still in his hand, was exclaiming:
CHAPTER V
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The mainsheet is a multiple-part block and tackle used to increase an individual’s pulling power.
Sailing Fundamentals
