sailcloth

How To Use sailcloth In A Sentence

• Since we cannot wash Towels, we have lined his Cot with sailcloth which is now Black with Blood. The Terror
• The floating wooden docks and ships, the tackle and cargo and tall mast swathed in furled sailcloth, together created a smell and feel as exciting as sunshine and promise itself.
• Above the ground-floor windows a stretch of sailcloth fell away from the façade. THE MAIN CAGES
• Constructed of fine sailcloth, the sails range from four-meter rectangles for beginners, eight meter for all around use and a large 11-meter sail for use in the lightest wind conditions.
• Also, check your main reef lines to prevent chafe to the sailcloth that may be pinched between the line and the boom.
• Dacron sails have also largely replaced canvas sailcloth.
• There are stories of ships stuck fast in the Doldrums, drifting idly through day after hot, sunny day, leaving their crews nothing to do but lounge under deck shelters constructed from pieces of sailcloth.
• The Falcon Tandem has a tighter sail, heavier sailcloth, larger control bar, new hardware and control bar fittings with 1.25 inch downtubes and a stiffer airframe.
• Dacron sails have also largely replaced canvas sailcloth.
• Most of the earliest papers survive very well because they were made from intrinsically pure materials: rags derived from linen and cotton, old hemp ropes, and sailcloth.