lower mast

It employed the same lower mast section, but a shorter top section.

The rigs are interchangeable, with the lower mast section and the sail being the only difference.

At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the "top."

I dare say you must: but however busy you are, do not miss the getting out of our lower masts.

There his ships underwent extensive repairs, some even replacing their lower masts.

The topmast is semi-permanently attached to the upper front of the lower mast, at the top.

The shorter wavelengths meant that smaller aerials and lower masts had to be employed.

Until recently the pole was usually secured by a parrot beak to a ring on the lower mast.

In every other respect, however, the "topmast" lived on, with separate shrouds to the lower mast and a top between the two.

Substantial wreckage includes the hull, side plates, a donkey engine and the lower mast.

At that time the Leander was absolutely unmanageable, only the stumps of her lower masts remained standing.

The lower masts were made of iron, and the other masts were wood.

In front of the converted sloop is a smaller vessel, with two lower masts and nets drying across the main deck.

There was the Carnage and the frigate Jackson had described, stripped except for her lower masts.

Vestal had only her lower masts standing, and had five killed and twenty wounded.

It uses a more flexible and slightly shorter lower mast together with a sail area 18% smaller than the Laser Standard.

It was constructed in 2000, replacing an older, lower mast that was subsequently demolished, and has some unusual characteristics.

It should not be confused with the top, the platform in the upper part of each lower mast of a square-rigged sailing ship.

Lower mast attached flow region.

Doublings The portions of the upper and lower mast which are alongside one another in a fore and aft line.

Blocks & tackle were then used in such tasks as placing or removing the lower masts of vessel under construction or repair.

The lower masts of both fore- and mainmasts are still standing, whereas the mizzenmast have healed over to starboard.

Guerrière had suffered considerable damage to her lower masts, as well as to her hull, both above and below the waterline.

Sharina tried to visualize how crowded the ship would haye been if the lowered mast and yard filled the narrow aisle between the benches.

The bottom we call the lower mast, or just the foremast; it is forty-nine feet long, and it is stepped on the kelson.