flying jib

The drow tightened his hold on the line of the flying jib and sighed.

Instead he felt as taut as a flying jib sheet hard on the wind.

Common in square rigged ships where they were used to attach the outer or flying jib.

Frantically, I clutched at the flying jib stay.

And we will get the flying jib and stuns'ls off her.'

It is to the point that the tack of the flying jib sail is drawn out.

The luff of the flying jib had begun to back and fill and so I let the ship's head fall away.

I clutched for some support, and my imagination fervently, feverishly conjured up the flying jib stay.

Take in the studding-sl's and stow the flying jib.'

Sail had been made in the early watches, so that the Ghost was racing along under everything except the two topsails and the flying jib.

Maybe there's a bit too much av him turned up for fate and there's no denying he has flying jibs like all that family.

Then you drop the flying jib.'

Behind us, the flying jib tore with a loud bang and was carried out beyond the jibboom like a mad ghost.

The vessel also carried spanker, jib, and flying jib sails.

Then a flying jib raced up and was sheeted home, an almost perfect triangle with the flax pinkish in the moonlight.

The topsail and flying jib were broken out and trimmed in merciless hard curves to slice the wind.

and rigged for thirty or better sail from flying jib to spanker.

Then it was topgallants yards aloft and the sails bent on, while the outer and flying jibs were made ready.

Mr Meade looked very much like a cabbage in spectacles and flying jibs but Jane liked him.

Even as he spoke the flying jib began to drop and flap, men out on the bowsprit stifling it as it came down.

Wavewatcher*s voice, bull-horning for the hoisting of jib and flying jib, trimming them by the wind, went unnoticed.

We ran down the flying jib, hauled the jib-sheets to wind-ward and the main-sheet flat, and came up into the wind.

I ran forward and had the downhaul of the flying jib all in and fast as we slipped by the boat a hundred feet to leeward.

They may additionally have a topmast with a main topsail and jib topsail (flying jib).