How To Use Skysail In A Sentence
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All the miracle of sails; the steady foresail; the sensitive jibs; the press canvas delicate as bubbles; the reliable main; the bluff topsails; topgallants like eager horses; the impertinent skysails; the jaunty moonraker, were just canvas stretched on poles.
The Wind Bloweth
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Poor Sundry Buyers continually pressed his abdomen as he toiled around the deck-capstans; and never was Nancy's face quite so forlorn as when he obeyed the Maltese Cockney's command and went up to loose the mizzen-skysail.
CHAPTER L
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The skysails were already furled; men were furling the royals; and the topgallant-yards were running down while clewlines and buntlines bagged the canvas.
CHAPTER XXXIII
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These braces come down to the ship's sides, or to the heads of the masts fore and aft of those on which the yard is swung; all the mizzen-braces working on the mainmast; the maintopgallant, mainroyal and skysail braces working on the mizzenmast; and the foretopgallant and foreroyal braces working on the mainmast, as is clearly shown in our illustration.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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As it was, they cut away the remnants of the mizzen-lower-topsail with their sheath-knives, and they loosed the main-skysail out of its bolt-ropes.
CHAPTER XLVI
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The order was given to loose the main-skysail, which is the fifth and highest sail from deck.
Redburn. His First Voyage
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A dash of the same brine will help keep the ballast right, then a skysail-yard breakfast must be carefully stowed away, in order to give a firmness to the timbers, and on the strength of these two blocks for shoring up the hull, you must begin little by little, and keep on brightening up until you have got the craft all right again.
An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
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Mr. Pike sent look-outs aloft to every skysail-yard, and the Elsinore slipped along through the smooth sea.
CHAPTER XVIII
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A skysail was a lightweight sail hoisted to the very peak of the mast, used only in extremely faint winds.
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Constitution had royals above her topgallants, and later she had even higher sails called skysails.
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She was very heavily sparred, with a skysail on the main and stunsail booms aloft.
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Above the upper topsails are the topgallant sails and above these, the royals and the skysails.
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The skysails were already furled; men were furling the royals; and the topgallant-yards were running down while clewlines and buntlines bagged the canvas.
CHAPTER XXXIII
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Above the courses come the lower topsails, above them the upper topsails, above them the lower topgallant-sails, then the upper topgallant-sails, then the royals, and, on the mainmast, the skysail, though sometimes there are skysails to all masts, and over the main skysail comes a "scraper" or moon-raker.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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All hands were then sent aloft, and for an hour or two we were hard at work, making the booms well fast; unreeving the studding-sail and royal and skysail gear.
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So close were we that I looked to see our far-reeling skysail-yards strike the face of the rock.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
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The square sails on the mainmast are called, when eight are carried, the mainsail, lower and upper maintopsails, lower and upper maintopgallants, main-royal, main-skysail, and the moonsail.
All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
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In order if possible to get a little more way on the ship, a studding-sail and a skysail were rigged up with two awnings; it did not increase our speed very much, but no doubt it helped a little.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912
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Fitted above the topgallants were royals and above them skysails.
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The ship also carried standing skysail pales and yards, a half poop, and had as her figurehead a toothy dragon's head.
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Her topgallant, royal and skysail masts are of single spars.
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The ship also carried standing skysail pales and yards, a half poop, and had as her figurehead a toothy dragon's head.
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Each square sail had its name: mainsail, topsail, topgallant sail, royal, skysail, and moonsail; each smaller as one looked upward.
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Williams was a six-footer, a graduate "bucko" now in charge of this big skysail-yarder, and he had resented Murphy's appearance on board with whisky and kind words for his men before he was through with them.
The Grain Ship
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One model, of a full-rigged ship, twenty-five feet in length, with skysail yards and all sails set, precise in every minutest detail aloft and alow, was undamaged save for a rent in her mainsail from a fragment of shell.
With Funston's Men
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He had picked up some of the names, but he had no idea which sail the mizzen skysail was, nor the fore topgallant.
Wellspring of Chaos
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They actually went aloft, set top-gallant-sails, royals, and skysails, and trimmed the yards to the quartering breeze.
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On the website of skysails there are nice videos of the first test.
