I will not go close to a vessel with ribbed sails again.

Then the crew, naked except for breechcloths, unfurled the two big ribbed sails.

Not at the vessels with ribbed sails or the Sea Folk ships that the Seanchan were re-rigging and manning with their own crews, but at craft flying the Golden Bees of Illian, or the Sword and Hand of Arad Doman, or the Crescents of Tear.

Domon lowered the looking glass, but his eye still seemed filled by that tall, square-looking ship with its odd ribbed sails.

His breath caught as he suddenly made out square, ribbed sails.

West and north the wind blew, across the broad blue-green expanse of the harbor, where hundreds of huge ships sat rocking at anchor on choppy swells, some bluff-bowed and rigged with ribbed sails, others long and sharp-prowed, with men laboring to match their sails and rigging to those of the wider vessels.

The ribbed sails on the Kiaron's three tall masts were taut with the cold wind that drove the vessel toward the land that lay ahead, a dark shore near enough that she could make out hills and headlands.

Great bluff-bowed things they were, twice the beam of a raker and more, some, suitable for battering through heavy seas perhaps, but strangely rigged and with odd ribbed sails too stiff for proper setting.

One, its ribbed sails bellied with wind, escorted a swarm of small fishing boats back toward the island port.

Wavedancer outran the Seanchan vessel easily at first-we had heard of the Seanchan and their vessels with ribbed sails, that they demanded strange oaths and punished those who would not give them-but then the-damane?