main halyard

Then he was on to the cabin top and releasing the main halyard.

Attach the tape to the end of the main halyard and send it up the mast.

Finally I got the main halyard around him and winched him into a sort of standing position.

Canvas cracked like a maddened animal as he raised the main halyard.

Dr. McCoy asked as he straightened from helping me take the main halyards down.

'Jackson and Stafford - let go the main halyards!

If you already know your jib sheet from your main halyard, the possibilities are almost endless.

Tom snatched the main halyard out of thetangle of lines.

The first thing that had to be done to bring order out of thisdestruction was to capture the end of the main halyard.

Then stand by the main halyards.'

All wire main halyards or Spectra rope.

Its full weight washeld aloft on the stubby mast by the main halyard.

He perched on the wide sternseat while his father uncleated the main halyard.

"Stand by main halyards!

With main halyard problems on the last leg, Cayard took his foot off the accelerator and the Italians closed to within 1:06.

His eyes flickered up intothe rigging, and he saw the main halyard begin to unravel just belowthe heavy wooden sheave block.

The main halyard had broken, and Denny had, quite properly, put the boat on the opposite tack, with the headsail backed while he got the mainsail in hand.

Leaving the docklines for Tathagres, Emien dove for the mess of rope at the base of the mast and uncleated the main halyard.

It is convention in some places to fasten the main halyard (for the mainsail) on the starboard side of the mast and the jib halyard to the port side.

The Blox had run the whisker pole to maximum height on its track, suspended it from the main halyard, and were swinging on it from the pulpit far out over the harbour and letting go.

With the main halyards belayed, Ramage was not surprised to see that Dyson and Stafford found themselves hoisting both staysail and jib while Rossi walked round, explaining loudly that he was 'tending sheets'.

"Paul lowered the mainsail; I got into the bosun's chair, which is a canvas sling, and Paul winched me to the top of the mast on the main halyard, then cleated the line while I hauled the genoa halyard down to deck level.