How To Use Square sail In A Sentence
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There was also a small square sail which would be hoisted to a yard on the foremast and two trysails to be hoisted on the jigger.
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Her rig is barquentine with fore and aft sails on all except the forward most mast which has 3 square sails.
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At first when sails triumphed over oars, a large square sail was rigged on the mainmast while two smaller sails fore and aft gave the ship maneuverability.
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Such ships were robustly built with stout planking secured to massive framing timbers, with a single mast possibly rigged with a square sail.
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The tall mast is the mainmast, the short mast is the mizzen; some ketches carry square sails on the main, some carry a topsail on the mizzen -- the distinctive mark of the ketch being that the mizzen is a pole-mast and stepped in front of the stern-post.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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The square sails themselves are controlled by drawlines called clew-garnets running up from the lower corners, leechlines running in diagonally from the middle of the outside edges, buntlines running up from the foot, and spilling lines, to spill the wind in heavy {107} weather.
All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
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Her rig is barquentine with fore and aft sails on all except the forward most mast which has 3 square sails.
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For running in high seas we put a large square sail forward, tripping the yard along the foremast, much like a spinnaker boom.
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The ships were rigged with a single square sail.
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Her foremast carried square sails; her main and mizzen masts were schooner-rigged.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
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Ancient ships generally had but one main square sail, so their ability to tack against the wind was limited.
Christianity Today
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The Buntline Hitch was originally employed to secure the buntlines to the foot of the square sails.
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ships with square sails sail fairly efficiently with the wind abaft
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Usually, they had a single mast stepped amidships and were rigged with a single square sail.
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Each sail has a halyard, downhaul and port and starboard sheets, and the eight square sails have three or four buntlines and two clewlines apiece.
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Kon-Tiki, by Thor Heyerdahl (1950) Nine balsa-wood logs, a big square sail, a bamboo "cabin" with a roof made of banana leaves — thus did Norwegian Heyerdahl and his companions set sail from Peru toward Polynesia to prove a point: that the South Pacific was settled from the east.
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Such ships were robustly built with stout planking secured to massive framing timbers, with a single mast possibly rigged with a square sail.
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This was the reason many sailing vessels used combinations of square sails and staysails for their rigs.
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Some of the larger craft built in the Civil War era were fitted out as barkentines, with square sails forward and schooner-rigged main and mizzen masts. ...
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Of the boats in which the party was embarked, the batteau was a keel-vessel fifty-five feet in length, carrying a large square sail, and manned by twenty-two oars.
Lewis and Clark Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
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Both carried a standard showing a square sailed white ship on a blue cloth.
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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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The Buntline Hitch is used to tie a buntline to a square sail.
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The best kind of sail is the lug, which is an elongated square sail -- shown in the accompanying illustration.
Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships
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She has a square sail on two booms, which I shall see is fully repaired, and there is little else to do to make her ready.
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Clipper ships often carried additional square sails on either side of the main square sails, and staysails were frequently rigged to the stays.
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The argument is that a three-masted ship had three yards on each mast for the square sails, making nine in all.
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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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Some of the larger craft built in the Civil War era were fitted out as barkentines, with square sails forward and schooner-rigged main and mizzen masts. ...
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Ancient ships generally had but one main square sail, so their ability to tack against the wind was limited.
Christianity Today
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In the early years of sailing ships, the European ships had a square sail design.
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The rig has at least three square sails: the course on the lower mast, the topsail on the topmast and the topgallant sail on the topgallant mast.
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a sheet, but by an "outhaul," and kept in position not by a "brace," but by the "sheet," and thereby differs from the square sails.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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At first when sails triumphed over oars, a large square sail was rigged on the mainmast while two smaller sails fore and aft gave the ship maneuverability.
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The huge sheets were trimmed on power-driven winches, and setting all 25 of Royal Clipper's square sails took about 10 minutes, start to finish.
