These boats carry one lugsail on a mast shipped well amidships.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference

It's a Scottish lugsail dinghy of the older variety and she's a beauty.    From Wordnik.com.  [[black gold] current choice for header] Reference

Smartly he ran up a small lugsail, and set his boat's head towards the stranger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference

For war then prevailing, they were probably taken for the French lugsail-boats, that used to frequent the lands off Scilly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference

Fritz and Eric both put their rifles ready on the thwarts of the boat, and the harpoons were also placed handy in the bows along with the boat - hook; then, lowering the lugsail which the little craft carried, they muffled their oars with some rags they had prepared and pulled in steadily towards the beach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference

A lugsail set, or haul a net, from the point to Mullaghmore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Winding Banks of Erne] Reference

There was something of a breeze, and they hoisted a lugsail so that they should run out to meet the steamer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macleod of Dare] Reference

Then he could make out the dark figures on the quay, and the hoisting of the lugsail, and the putting off of the boat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macleod of Dare] Reference

And then, in short jerks, a grey, ragged, patched old lugsail, far too small for the boat, rose cockeye to the masthead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coot Club]

The great bulk of the steamer soon floated away, and the lugsail was run up again, and the boat made slowly back for Castle Dare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macleod of Dare] Reference

The gig carried a small mast and lugsail, and, the faint wind blowing fair down the creek, the Captain suggested our hoisting them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poison Island] Reference

"Keep her close up, sir," said the man who had the sheet of the huge lugsail in both his hands, as he cast a glance out at the darkening sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macleod of Dare] Reference

That evening, however, when halfway home, a squall suddenly struck our own lightened boat, which was rigged with one large lugsail, and capsized her.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell] Reference

In a short time a breeze sprang up, when we hoisted our little lugsail, and skimmed merrily over the water, just rippled into wavelets by the brisk breeze.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Eastern Seas] Reference

And then, as they got under the lee of the island, they found themselves in smoother water, though from time to time squalls came over and threatened to flatten the great lugsail right on to the waves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macleod of Dare] Reference

And then the lugsail was hauled down, and they lay on the lapping water; and they could hear all around them the soft callings of the guillemots and razor-bills, and other divers whose home is the heaving wave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macleod of Dare] Reference

"Were you ever in a theatre, Duncan?" he said, or rather bawled, to the brown-visaged and black-haired young fellow who had now got the sheet of the lugsail under his foot as well as in the firm grip of his hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macleod of Dare] Reference

"Snakes and alligators!" exclaimed Mr Lathrope, the lugsail swinging aside and enabling him and the others to see into the boat clearly, a thing which had been previously impossible from the boat's coming up end on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land] Reference

One sprang to the halyards, and down came the great lugsail; the other got out one of the great oars, and the mighty blade of it fell into the bulk of the next wave as if he would with one sweep tear her head round.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macleod of Dare] Reference

It was a pleasant scene, restful and quiet, with a touch of life and a hint of sober romance, when a barge swept down through the middle arch of the bridge with a lugsail hoisted to a jury mast and a white-aproned woman at the tiller.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eye of Osiris] Reference

Then he, too, got into the boat; the two men forward hauled up the huge lugsail; and presently there was a rippling line of sparkling white stars on each side of the boat, burning for a second or two on the surface of the black water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macleod of Dare] Reference

As a matter of fact no one who is not intimately acquainted with the coast should take a boat out of the harbour without an experienced man on board, and no amateurs should attempt unaided, to sail the lugsail boats in general use among the fishermen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cornish Riviera] Reference

When Donald and his companion got down to the quay, they found the men already in the big boat, getting ready to hoist the huge brown lugsail; and there was a good deal of laughing and talking going on, perhaps in anticipation of the dram they were sure to get when their master returned to Castle Dare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macleod of Dare] Reference

And Duncan Cameron was as good as his word; for as the boat went plunging forward to the neighborhood in which they occasionally saw the head of Macleod appear on the side of a wave and then disappear again as soon as the wave broke, and as soon as the lugsail had been rattled down, he sprung clear from the side of the boat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macleod of Dare] Reference

Donald jumped down on the rude stone ballast, and made his way up to the bow; Hamish, who remained on shore, helped to shove her off; then the heavy lugsail was quickly hoisted, the sheet hauled tight; and presently the broad-beamed boat was ploughing its way through the rushing seas, with an occasional cloud of spray coming right over her from stem to stern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macleod of Dare] Reference

The lugsail was then unbent from the yard, stretched across the mast, fore and aft -- thus forming a sort of tent over the open boat for about two - thirds of her length from the stern-post, -- and the luff and after-leach of the sail were then strained tightly down to the planking of the boat outside, by short lengths of ratline led underneath the gig's keel.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron] Reference

But the midshipman had not much time for observation of the little crew, his attention being taken up directly by the dramatic-looking entrance upon the scene of one who was apparently the skipper or owner of the lugger, and who had evidently been having a nap in the shade cast by the aft lugsail, and been awakened by the shot to give the order which had thrown the lugger up into the wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop] Reference

It has got out of the set of the tide and has the wind well abeam, just the thing for that lugsail she carries. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land] Reference

Indeed, there seemed to be very few persons in the boat at all, only two being observed in the stern-sheets, one of whom was steering with an oar, while a third was sitting on one of the forward thwarts attending to the sheet of the lugsail, slacking it out as the wind came aft occasionally, and hauling it in taut again when the sail jibed on the boat's head falling off a point or two through the alteration of her course now and again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land] Reference

But there was worse to come, for the wind was freshening every moment and rapidly kicking up a short, steep, choppy sea, the surges of which smothered us with spray as the gig leaped viciously at them under the steadily increasing pressure of the wind upon her close-reefed lugsail; so that within a very few minutes it was taking one hand all his time to keep the boat free of water by continually baling with the bucket, although we eased the craft as much as possible by keeping the weather-leech of the sail ashiver most of the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turned Adrift] Reference

Then the rope was thrown off, the steamer steamed slowly ahead, the lugsail was run up again, and away the boat plunged for the shore, with Donald playing the "Heights of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macleod of Dare] Reference

I've known it so hot that the fellows have been half-roasted, and when the skipper's piped all hands to bathe in a lugsail overboard, to keep away the sharks, you've heard the lads sizzle as they jumped into the water. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Magnet] Reference

We felt about, and found a lugsail and an oar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mate of the Lily Notes from Harry Musgrave's Log Book] Reference