Lines or ropes that allow you to control the headsail.    From Wordnik.com.  [True Spirit] Reference

Emien dragged a ratty headsail out of the locker and dis-covered five hanks torn off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stormwarden]

He started to say something, paused, and instead arose to tighten the headsail halyard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadowfane]

Sundown found the two of them curled beneath the patched canvas of the headsail, asleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadowfane]

Forced to duck the swing of the headsail, Taen sensed rather than saw the Kielmark check.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadowfane]

He lost a spoke, swore, and threw his weight against the helm as a headsail banged forward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadowfane]

We are not moving too badly again now, doing 6 knots under full main, headsail, and staysail.    From Wordnik.com.  [True Spirit] Reference

He come up a laughin ', playsed as Punch, an' give orders to cast off and git up headsail ta oncet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants"] Reference

The mainsheet needed easing, and the headsail drove the bow down because the halyard was too slack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stormwarden]

I went up on the foredeck, took the blooper and spinnaker down, set a 120% headsail and poled it out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catch And Release Fly Fishing Works With Really Big Fish Too.] Reference

With the wheel hard over and the forecastle hands drawing at the headsail sheets she brought her head round.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower And The Hotspur]

Ivor Wilkins Red Dragon, a 51. 7-meter sloop Alloy launched in 2008, displays its name on its headsail in Chinese.    From Wordnik.com.  [Come Sail Away] Reference

Bruce had to yell across the water to tell me to furl in the headsail so that Jesse Martin, Mike Perham, and the customs guys could board.    From Wordnik.com.  [True Spirit] Reference

A fraction later, the headsail dropped in the water.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Having said that USA-17 hasn't yet unfurled her bigger headsail.    From Wordnik.com.  [YBW News] Reference

The headsail sheets came over, and the corvette went handily about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Midshipman Easy]

From for'ard came the jerking rattle of headsail halyards through the sheaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son Of The Sun] Reference

And that includes knowing whether a headsail really is the quickest way upwind.    From Wordnik.com.  [YBW News] Reference

This time the crew were sailing with their biggest code zero, a headsail that in.    From Wordnik.com.  [YBW News] Reference

We raised the genoa - a headsail for light winds that hangs in front of the mast.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

John Paul himself taught me to tack and wear ship, and MacMuir to stow a headsail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Carvel — Volume 04] Reference

The Greeks had trouble raising their headsail and went into the start box without one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sail-World.com USA Latest News] Reference

Having thenceforth only the jibs for headsail, she had to be kept a little off the wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2] Reference

Ask us about headsail reefing packages & furling systems too Corporate events and team building.    From Wordnik.com.  [YBW News] Reference

With my largest headsail as a number 3, The Shed is suffering from just not having enough power.    From Wordnik.com.  [YBW News] Reference

The helm was put up -- the aftersails were brailed up and furled -- more headsail was got on her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman] Reference

For yachts there isn't a sufficently large database to allow for such variations as headsail size.    From Wordnik.com.  [YBW News] Reference

The young skipper was determined to test the question, and, lashing the helm, he hoisted her headsail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Bobtail or The Wreck of the Penobscot.] Reference

We now have a lot of sail area up: full main, staysail and large, strong Cuben-Fiber code 3 tight luff headsail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gizmodo] Reference

Directing the muscle power of the grinders, who handle loads up to 4-tons, the trimmer alters the shape of the headsail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boats and Boating Online Resource Center. Find Boating News, Products and Services. Boating RSS Feed Available.] Reference

In last night's darkness we helplessly listened to the men loosing headsail-halyards and letting yards go down on the run.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mutiny of the Elsinore] Reference

After a while, Weston, lowering the headsail, dropped the anchor over close to the beach, and Major Kinnaird paddled a canoe off gingerly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gold Trail] Reference