headsails

Certainly there was a scurry of men bending on headsails.

Jack shook his head - it would do her little good, with the wind right aft and only headsails left.

The French frigate now had headsails drawing and was beginning to bear away to the south.

The teams took down their headsails and bobbed around the committee boat, but the breeze never came.

They had a very large mainsail with relatively small headsails and a 3/4s rig.

Suddenly her topsails were let fall while the headsails soared up the stays.

A boom may be found on small headsails.

So the headsails had to be shifted from one side to the other, depending upon where the wind came from.

When not in use the headsails are stowed by being tied onto the bowsprit.

A fine move, if only the Java could make it quick enough; there was little way on her, and her headsails were gone.

Young Appleby would have no difficulty getting there even if he jogged along under headsails alone.

Headsails had just been dropped to the foot of their stays, with no attempt to put a lashing round them.

From where he stood at the helm the headsails where lost in murk.

Other headsails are set independently of any forestays, such as the spinnaker.

It had a long bow sprit with jibboom and up to three headsails.

Cutter: like a sloop with two or more headsails in the foretriangle.

The headsails were sheeted home and theGriffin once again stretched towards the town.

The improvement the new headsails and spanker made possible, however, had to be seen to be believed.

As with headsails there are many types of spinnakers depending on the shape, area and cloth weight.

Jibs and spinnakers are the two main types of headsails on a modern boat.

'South by west it is, sir,' he replied, and the headsails filled with a gentle urgency.

They had almost a soldier's wind so that for most of the time the headsails were blanketed by the forecourse.

'Back the headsails while we get the boat back in the water.'

Headsails are the main driving sails when going upwind (sailing towards the wind).

For other headsails, such as a jib, the line would be the sheet, attached to the clew.