The skipper's eye is on the mainsail, which is the point of pivoting. From Wordnik.com. [All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways] Reference
I concluded that the mainsail was the big sail nearest to me, and I untied the "stops," making a note of the name for future use. From Wordnik.com. [Desk and Debit or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk] Reference
And hoisting up the mainsail to the wind, they made towards shore. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 51: Acts The Challoner Revision] Reference
He took Vandersee's arm now, turning him until he faced the mainsail. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
The mainsail, made of heavier cloth, was only about 15 percent smaller. From Wordnik.com. [Mine’s Bigger Than Yours] Reference
"There goes the mainsail all to ribands; the yards are shot in the slings.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
"She'll go a bit tauter still, I think," he said, as Nell hoisted the mainsail. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
"Well, then, we'll have the mainsail on her," said the captain, to put an end to the discussion. From Wordnik.com. [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference
This rock, which some of our crew supposed to be a wreck, was concealed from the helmsman by the mainsail. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of the shipwreck of the brig Betsey, of Wiscasset, Maine, and murder of five of her crew, by pirates, on the coast of Cuba, Dec. 1824.] Reference
On a sudden she hauled up the lee clew of her mainsail, boom-ended her studding sails, and put her helm over. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by English Authors: the Sea] Reference
In a few minutes vanished all idea of sending the mainsail adrift, and every thought was turned to the trysail. From Wordnik.com. [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference
He let the wind out of the mainsail and, by careful manipulation of the rudder, kept the boat wonderfully still. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Icelandic Short Stories] Reference
Lieut. Parker took the mainsail off her, and had got the spanker about half brailed up, when the squall struck us. From Wordnik.com. [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference
Evidently she had met with disaster, for the end of her boom was broken and dragging and her mainsail hung loosely. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
"Luff," he would cry, "luff, luff, and come to win'ward and we'll give you the weight o 'the mainsail down the hill.". From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
Notice the figure of Victory on the top of the single mast and the decoration of the mainsail with the wolf and twins. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
It was of triangular shape, and seemed to be about the size of a pilot-boat mainsail, with chains attached to the bottom of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
The British boat appeared to be in control of the fifth start when with 40 seconds to go the mainsail dropped when its halyard broke. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Ainslie's TeamOrigin cruising ahead of BMW Oracle in 1851 Cup] Reference
There was just enough wind to catch the brown mainsail, and the King of Borva took the tiller, his henchman sitting down by the mast. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
I've had her overhauled this spring and a new seven-and-a-half-horse engine put in her; her jibs and mainsail are in first-class shape. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
It was Eric who obeyed and held on to the sheet Hrolfur himself untied the mainsail, whilst at the same time keeping hold of the sheet. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Icelandic Short Stories] Reference
I was on the lee side of the forecastle, and the mainsail, which was still drawing, concealed from me a certain portion of the after-deck. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
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