mainsail造句
1, She tightened the mainsail while holding the course .
2, Clew the mainsail down, the wind is too strong.
3, The mainsail was still swinging back and forth, sweeping the cabin top, so it was lowered and tied down.
4, Easing Golden Girl up under mainsail, Trent watched the motor yacht roll gently in the swell.
5, The fully battened mainsail is loose-footed and stands a bold roach which has to brush past the backstay during a tack.
6, We dropped the mainsail in time, but Joe and Rex were still wrestling down the foresail when the squall line hit.
7, With mainsail set and at full throttle we steamed for home.
8, With just the mainsail out, the boat heeled hard off the wind on to a port reach.
9, On a mainsail, the luff attaches to the mast.
10, The mizzen sail functions much like a second mainsail.
11, Winches are typically used to raise the mainsail and to trim in jib sheets.
12, Definition: The control line that pulls the mainsail in or out.
13, A ketch therefore uses three primary sails: the mainsail and head sail, as on a sloop, plus the mizzen sail aft.
14, This means that the mainsail and head sail of a ketch are generally smaller than on a sloop, but the mizzen sail roughly makes up the difference.
15, The mainsail of a cat rig may have a traditional boom or, as in this boat, a loose-footed mainsail attached at the aft corner to what is called a wishbone boom.
16, In a Bermuda-rigged sloop the mainsail has a tall, triangular shape.
17, The mainsail is a tall, triangular sail mounted to the mast at its leading edge, with the foot of the sail along the boom, which extends aft from the mast.
18, A small sloop with a mainsail, jib, and keel but no bowsprit.
19, Yet somehow one hand remained on the wheel and the other clasped the mainsail winch.
20, A shard of steel plate knifed through Golden Girl's mainsail, cutting the portside shrouds as if they were string.
21, Yesterday we had replaced yet another of the bamboo battens in the mainsail.
22, Whatever the urgency, setting more than the number three jib and the mainsail would have been stupid.
23, I yelled at the crew to leave the work and lower the mainsail to just two panels.
24, In general, to furl a sail is to roll it up, such as to furl the mainsail on the boom (or into the boom or mast in some contemporary systems).
25, A sloop has a single mast and usually only two sails: the mainsail and a head sail such as a jib or genoa.
26, Note that the mast is positioned very far forward, almost at the bow, making room for a very long-footed mainsail.
27, However, when sailing by the lee or directly downwind, her leeward side is the side on which her mainsail lies. The other side is her windward side.
28, When they reached an harbour, the sailors clewed the mainsail down.
29, A sloop uses what is called a Bermuda or Marconi rig: the tall, thin, triangular mainsail we're all so used to seeing on the water.
30, Conway, 55, turned the key and scrambled to drop the mainsail, but the craft was already rolling onto its starboard side.
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