foresail

The only one of her courses set was the foresail.

She looked out one more time at the sails and decided to take in the foresail.

I saw his foresail shiver as he started to turn away.

Her sails were raised, but there was something wrong with the foresail.

Nothing was set but the lower topsails and the foresail.

He hurried forward to help sort out the foresail tack.

I understood the reference to be to that saving foresail.

"Now this is the way that the foresail works.

"He is at the helm, his eye fixed on the point of the foresail.

An hour later the foresail flapped suddenly; the wind was heading her.

Together they shook out a reef and set the foresail; then Joan went below to sleep.

Leave the new foresail for the time being.

He dropped the foresail and hit the starter for the big inboard.

Her foresail yard was held only by its chains.

Two sailors were drawing in the foresail and its spar.

The privateer was under way with her foresail and mainsail set.

He ran right up it, using the wooden hoops of the foresail as a ladder.

The shot, in fact, went through the settee's foresail.

The Sophie came closer to the wind: her foresail shivered once and filled again.

Most had a topsail above the huge mainsail and a large foresail.

We had been under lower- topsails and a reefed foresail all night.

At eight o'clock I had succeeded only in putting the second reef into the foresail.

Some lie-to best under a foresail, and this, I believe, is the sail most usually employed.

In striking the gear, the foresail tack tackle had to be cast off.

The peak of the foresail gaff dipped slightly, then dropped a few more feet.