mainsheet

Yes, but she doesn't need that bundle of mainsheet in her hand.

The mainsheet is fixed to the stern of the boat.

In the dark I could make out the mainsheet and the mizzen-mast, but not much else.

Tell him to slack off the mainsheet, and before you know it, he'd drop the peak.

Otherwise the mainsheet won't be able to slide over freely.

No she's let out the mainsheet to spill wind and now she's under control again.

When you're beating it doesn't matter because the boom is held down by the mainsheet.

Perhaps the loop I had tied in the mainsheet broke during the last shock.

As he loosed the mainsheet the sail swung across to its new position.

The boom was trailing in the water, topping lift and mainsheet carried away.

Allow for sudden puffs of wind by easing the mainsheet.

The rest of you tail aft to the mainsheet!

The two-part mainsheet has its own winches at each end of the track.

The mainsheet purchase tackle is attached to the aft tube.

The school newspaper, The Mainsheet, is published in print and online.

To start sailing we simply pull in the rope that controls the sail that's the mainsheet.

The mainsheet took a turn round my leg and I couldn't get free, though.'

Mark Reynolds grew up with a tiller in one hand, a mainsheet in the other.

Undeterred, he was back two days later for the weekend regatta, having replaced the old mainsheet.

Sailing upwind is hard work so don't waste effort by letting the mainsheet out.

Bud, meanwhile, was shouting at Sandy to let go the mainsheet as he himself threw the helm hard over.

The mainsheet or traveller can also inflict serious injury.

The mainsheet is attached to the boom, and is used to control the mainsail.

This just seems like a cleaner side of our sport, where you have the tiller in one hand and the mainsheet in the other.

Blake, their mainsheet grinder and syndicate boss, had not been aboard that day.