How To Use staysail In A Sentence
- The Jessie swung off under her full staysail, then the foresail, double-reefed, was run up. Chapter 3
- Your approach will work but the sail will not be nearly as good as one designed as a staysail to begin with.
- I hauled in the trailing ropes, hoisted this awkward sail reefed, the forestaysail being already set, and under this sail brought her at once on the wind heading for the land, which appeared as an island in the sea. Sailing Alone Around the World
- She was running before the wind -- yawing frightfully -- her staysail let down to act as a sort of extra foresail, -- "scandalized," they call it, -- and her foreboom guyed out over the side. Captains Courageous
- The full-jib was also set, and, as it departed in shreds, the fore-topmast staysail was being hoisted. CHAPTER XXXVIII
- We can carry the spinnaker in combination with the mizzen staysail or we can carry either alone.
- The schooner shown her with all sails set, with the exception of the staysails between the masts.
- 'Pears to me to have a jurymast rigged upon his back, and fore and main staysails set under each of his arms," said Captain Ephraim. The Refugees
- I sailed comfortably on under the jib and forestaysail, which I now set. Sailing Alone Around the World
- Now the yards of the mizzen mast are braced around and the sheets of the staysails are eased.
