How To Use Gybe In A Sentence
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With a foul bottom we're only making 5 knots and I can't turn quickly enough, so we do a flying gybe, break a spreader on the main, almost throw the guests overboard, lose some cushions, douse sails, and tuck into Lameshur Bay, St. John.
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Fortunately, the jib only gybed, while the fore-topsail slatted a bit against the mast; and all the other sails remaining full and drawing, a slight shift of the helm sufficed to put the ship on her proper course.
The Island Treasure
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Starboard gybe is obviously safer than port, and clear air is vital.
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“Sir Bernard seemed to think I might have purposely gybed the yacht; is that what you think?”
The Short Forever
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You'll gybe in a squall when there isn't a motor boat to pick you up, or you'll get a pleurisy when I'm not there, or you'll crash your car where labourers don't come.
Movie Night
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When the breeze picked up to 35 kts we dropped the spinnaker, gybed, set the headsail and started heading back inshore to catch the cold front moving in from the south-west.
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Many of his days have been passed since then in explaining how the thing happened; of these explanations it will be sufficient to say that they were all different, and none satisfactory: and the gross fact remains that the main boom gybed, carried away the tackle, broke the mainmast some three feet above the deck and whipped it over-board.
The Wrecker
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It's not racist when your best interests gybe with the interests of the candidate that happens to look like you." ... unless you're a white Republican living in the South ...
Election Central Morning Roundup
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The jib or projecting arm of a crane probably derives from gibbet, and gibe and gybe are often written jibe.
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When the breeze picked up to 35 kts we dropped the spinnaker, gybed, set the headsail and started heading back inshore to catch the cold front moving in from the south-west.
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So they ran before it largely till the bows were pressed right under, and it was no human poser that saved the gybe.
Hills and the Sea
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Presently the two crackling sails gybed over with a thud, and the
Swirling Waters
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It should not be confused with the carve gybe which is used in high winds without the centreboard.
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And the boom, which had been acting uneasily, finally decided to gybe, and swept majestically over, carrying two of the Four in front of it, and all but dropped them into the water.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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In addition, the dip pole gybe requires another crewmember to adjust the topping lift while the pole is being swung through the foretriangle to the other side of the vessel.
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The wind got behind the mainsail, and the yacht gybed.
The Short Forever
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The skipper had gybed the boat under the lee of Valcour's; but the wind was too fresh where he was now to repeat the manoeuvre.
All Adrift or The Goldwing Club
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It's not racist when your best interests gybe with the interests of the candidate that happens to look like you.
Election Central Morning Roundup
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Those first learning to water start or carve gybe are best off in the flat water to windward by the spit.
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Boats accidentally gybe all the time; people sometimes get hit with the boom.
The Short Forever
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A squall came down, the sail gybed quickly, and the boom slewed over with a jerk, just grazing the top of my head.
A Poor Man's House
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Those first learning to water start or carve gybe are best off in the flat water to windward by the spit.
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Princess gybed neatly enough; the big lugsails flapped thunderously for a moment and then as the sheets were eased off she lay over close hauled on the other tack.
Hornblower And The Crisis
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Starboard gybe is obviously safer than port, and clear air is vital.
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And th 'end was the larboard halyards broke, an' the mare gybed, an 'to Torrington I went before the wind, wi' an unseemly bloody nose.
The Splendid Spur
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The incident, which could have easily ended in tragedy, occurred last spring during a regional tune-up race when the Beneteau, Epic, had an accidental gybe and broached in a 34-knot gust.
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Some time elapsed, for it was blowing strong, before the main sheet could be hauled in to gybe the sail; during which the cutter was running along the shoal or bar in ten feet water, which was not sufficient to float her; for she struck the ground violently every time that the swell passed by.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
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We are currently on a port gybe and will probably have to gybe twice more before we can get lined up for the final dash to the finish.
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Starboard gybe is obviously safer than port, and clear air is vital.
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Here Krantzius in the first place beginneth with such a gybe
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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“The yacht gybed, and James went overboard, then I did.”
The Short Forever
