storm jib

Dropping the storm jib, he raised the number two.

Randy believed it to be the storm jib because of the heavy cloth.

Patrick decided to change to a smaller storm jib from the sail locker.

Huron was showing only a storm jib.

Trent gathered it and wrapped it with ties to the boom before going forward to raise the storm jib.

He was directing them at the time in lowering the mainsail and raising a storm jib as winds increased during their journey to Scotland.

Before too long, Mr. Patterson was heaving to and dousing sails and running storm jibs with the best of them.

He shifted the helm so that the storm jib lifted the bows, the catamaran lunging forward on to the wave top, surfing the squall front.

'Slowly,' he warned and backed the tiny storm jib, making the sheet fast so that the breeze would hold them clear of the Baglietto's stern.

Looping a line over the crosstrees, he set the storm jib, sheeting it out to port in hope of putting the greater strain on the starboard stays.

Reluctantly he'd told Southwick to hand both storm trysail and storm jib and set the storm foresail in their place.

"This one has three headsails: a one fifty Genoa, a one ten working jib, and a storm jib, then the mainsail, of course, and the mizzen."

He carries a set of sails to fit any weather, from a balloonlike spanker for zephyrs to a storm jib that is barely larger than a king-size bed sheet, for control in a gale.

Teak deck, B&G wind instruments, Horsa log and speedo, VHF, radar, autopilot, extensively equipped, mainsail, 2 genoas, jib, storm jib and blister.

Robyn watched him strip the canvas off the upper yards, taking in two reefs in the main and setting a storm jib so that Huron met the freak wind readily and ran in for Table Bay, giving Robben Island a good berth to port.

His contributions to the major London exhibitions extended over twenty years, from 1876, when Hoisting the Storm Jib was at the Royal Academy, until 1896, when his last picture, the Crofter's Team, (which went to the Millbank Gallery) hung on the same walls.