How To Use Staysail In A Sentence
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The Jessie swung off under her full staysail, then the foresail, double-reefed, was run up.
Chapter 3
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Your approach will work but the sail will not be nearly as good as one designed as a staysail to begin with.
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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
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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
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The full-jib was also set, and, as it departed in shreds, the fore-topmast staysail was being hoisted.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
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We can carry the spinnaker in combination with the mizzen staysail or we can carry either alone.
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The schooner shown her with all sails set, with the exception of the staysails between the masts.
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'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
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I sailed comfortably on under the jib and forestaysail, which I now set.
Sailing Alone Around the World
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Now the yards of the mizzen mast are braced around and the sheets of the staysails are eased.
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Why hasn't he got that big fisherman's staysail on her?" she demanded irritably.
Chapter 19
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It was not long before the wind swept across the waves with almost resistless force, when it was found necessary to strip the brig of all canvas, excepting a storm main-staysail and close-reefed fore-topsail; the yards were braced up, the helm lashed a-lee, and the brig was laid to.
Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale
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At sunset, we had 5 sails up in a vain attempt to catch what little wind there was - jib, stay, main, mizzen staysail and the mizzen.
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She was under staysail and forestaysail only, perfectly equilibrated, and her speed and power were awesome.
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A staysail halliard parted and the sail drifted down to drag in the sea until a rush of seamen went forrard along the bowsprit to pull it in and attach a new halliard.
Sharpe's Trafalgar
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The sloop could carry no more than a three-reefed mainsail and forestaysail; with these she held on stoutly and was not blown out of the strait.
Sailing Alone Around the World
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The full-jib was also set, and, as it departed in shreds, the fore-topmast staysail was being hoisted.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
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As the schooner went into the wind and backed her jib and staysail the whaleboat was swung out.
A SON OF THE SUN
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Mainsails, genoas, working jibs and staysails, spinnakers, storm jibs, and trisails are all discussed in depth.
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The innermost part of the bowsprit, from which the forestaysail flies, is called the heel.
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When the sloop was in the fiercest squalls, with only the reefed forestaysail set, even that small sail shook her from keelson to truck when it shivered by the leech.
Sailing Alone Around the World
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She lingered, finally, over the _Metacom_, running her easting down far to the southward with square yards under a close-reefed maintop sail, double-reefed foresail and forestaysail, dead before a gale and gigantic long seas hurling the ship on in the bleak watery desolation.
Java Head
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By contrast, an inner forestay and staysail can be left in place, ready to go when you need them most.
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Captain Cullen bent over suddenly and cast the staysail-sheet off from its pin.
MAKE WESTING
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The fore-staysail, which had only recently been hoisted when the studding-sails were set, being now found to be in the way of getting in the anchors, as it prevented the hands from working freely, Mr Marline ordered the downhaul to be manned as soon as the halliards were cast - off.
The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea
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Orders were then given to set the jib and maintopmast staysail, and the former was set but the latter could not be, as the halyards were foul aloft.
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Louis muttered in my ear, as I passed forward to see to taking in the flying jib and staysail.
Chapter 19
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Lars with the broken leg, and Davis laid off for keeps -- why, sir, we'll soon be that weak it'll take both watches to set a staysail.
CHAPTER XV
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The full-jib was also set, and, as it departed in shreds, the fore-topmast staysail was being hoisted.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
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We had hauled the trysails and other fore and aft canvas, which was comparatively useless to a steamer when running before the wind at the time we had altered course towards the south, in quest of the ship in distress, the _Star of the North_ speeding along with only her fore - topsail and fore-topgallantsail set in addition to her fore-topmast staysail and mizzen staysail and jib.
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea
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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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Sunday, 20 May 2007 I worked in the cargohold tidying up, shifting cargo, and pulling out the old staysail to use as a jib.
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Well," said Jallanby, "she was a yawl about eighteen tons register; thirty tons yacht measurement; length forty-two feet; beam thirteen; draught seven and a half feet; square stern; coppered above the water-line; carried main, jib-headed mizen, fore-staysail, and jib, and in addition had a sliding gunter gaff-topsail, and ----
Ravensdene Court
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We just woke up to take down our large jib and hoisted a smaller staysail in its place.
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She was running now with a reefed forestaysail, the sheets flat amidship.
Sailing Alone Around the World
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The sheets for all of the staysails are led to sheetstoppers on the cabin top just forward of the cockpit.
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There is a good deal of what I call a lubber's fuss, parson, kept up on board a ship that shall be nameless, but which bears, about three leagues distant, broad off in the ocean, and which is lying to under a close-reefed maintopsail, a foretopmast-staysail, and foresail -- I call my hand a true one in mixing a can -- take another pull at the halyards!
The Pilot
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Compared to the flying jib and forestaysail, the Genoa has a shorter leading edge and backs the Phoresail.
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Once those were set, we set three staysails in the bow, and one staysail between each pair of masts.
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But the big mainsail is still on, and the staysail, jib, and flying-jib are snapping and slashing at their sheets with every roll.
Chapter 9
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Well," said Jallanby, "she was a yawl about eighteen tons register; thirty tons yacht measurement; length forty-two feet; beam thirteen; draught seven and a half feet; square stern; coppered above the water-line; carried main, jib-headed mizen, fore-staysail, and jib, and in addition had a sliding gunter gaff-topsail, and ----
Ravensdene Court
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Our staysail is in very good shape, but doesn't have an ideal sheeting angle for pointing up high.
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The new small staysails help to clean up the turbulent flow and improve the mainsail's efficiency.
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She is generally under two topsails, fore and main topsails, fore and foretopmast staysails, sometimes topgallant sails and jib, but seldom any sail on the mizzen, except while in chase of a vessel.
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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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We took in topsail and staysail, dropped the main peak, and as we got abreast of the principal wharf jibed the mainsail.
Charley's Coup
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When it happened, I had a single reefed mainsail and the staysail up - and Doha was charging along at 20 knots.
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Bowdoin carries four sails; a jib and forestaysail forward of the foremast, a foresail, and a mainsail.
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The helmsman drowsed against the binnacle with the wheel clamped in the friction brake as the galleass drifted under the limp billows of her staysails.
Stormwarden
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In the meanwhile the schooner lay to with backed forestaysail, tumbling wildly on a dim, grey sea.
Hawtrey's Deputy
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In seriously poor weather, only the lower staysails are used.
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My hands were full with the flying-jib, jib, and staysail; and by the time this part of my task was accomplished the Ghost was leaping into the south-west, the wind on her quarter and all her sheets to starboard.
Chapter 17
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Old Kinross is setting that fisherman's staysail," he remarked quietly.
Chapter 19
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We took in topsail and staysail, dropped the main-peak, and as we got abreast of the principal wharf jibed the mainsail.
Charley's "Coup"
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John had no resource but to put up a forestaysail, and run before the gale.
In Search of the Castaways
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Mired by the broad yards of her staysails, the galleass began to drink the sea.
Stormwarden
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He would simply "scandalise" his mainsail without reefing it, haul the staysail sheet to windward, and let the cutter head reach till daylight.
Yorke The Adventurer
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Her forestaysail and mizzen spanker were set as though an effort had been made to hold her head up into the wind, but the sheets had parted, and the sails were tearing to ribbons in the half gale of wind.
Tarzan of the Apes
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We took in topsail and staysail, dropped the main peak, and as we got abreast of the principal wharf jibed the mainsail.
Charley's Coup
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The heavy block hurtled through the air, smashing Dorety's head like an egg-shell and hurtling on and back and forth as the staysail whipped and slatted in the wind.
MAKE WESTING
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A full array of triangular jibs and staysails might be included before or between the masts.
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Sails can be divided into four main categories: mains (and mizzens), foresails (what we have been calling jibs), staysails, and spinnakers.
Sailing Fundamentals
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Finally, she had a set of sails called staysails to help her keep her course.
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The cable was then well stoppered at the "bitts," and unshackled; and two men stationed at the stopper, with axes, and the order to cut the lashings, instantly, when so ordered; the fore-staysail was loosed, and hands stationed at the halliards; and the chief engineer directed to keep up a full head of steam.
The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner
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The jibs and staysails are triangular, the spanker a quadrangular {108} fore-and-after.
All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
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Run down the forestaysail and stand by to let go.
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It increased to the strength of a hurricane towards one o'clock in the morning, when, the fore-topsail and mizzen staysail blowing away, the ship had to content herself with running under bare poles, careering through the water faster than ever.
The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea
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Having called all hands, we closereefed the topsails and trysail, furled the courses and jib, set the fore-topmast staysail, and brought her up nearly to her course, with the weather braces hauled in a little, to ease her.
Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative
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As quietly as was possible, I clewed up the topsails, lowered the flying jib and staysail, backed the jib over, and flattened the mainsail.
Chapter 26
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The bending of the staysail was no very serious matter; it simply meant letting go the halliards, dragging upon the downhaul, cutting the boltrope away from the hanks, passing the new seizings, hoisting the sail foot by foot until I had got all the seizings finished, bending the sheets afresh, and there we were.
The Castaways
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All three sails are on a pair of sheets at the moment and I am building a new boomed staysail because I want a self tacking boat when I am on my own.
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Self-tacking jibs and staysails work well with furling systems and with jib booms.
