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mainsail::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | canvas, canvass, sail, sheet |
| Has types | main course |
Examples of mainsail
mainsail
Suddenly the mainsail, which had been tightly furled for the night, billowed out.
From the timesunion.com
He even looks like he might just start scrubbing the deck or hoisting the mainsail.
From the entertainment.time.com
With the old rig, the crew would drop the mainsail and tie up at the wharf.
From the usatoday.com
The mainsail is triangular, rigged fore-and-aft with the lead edge fixed to the mast.
From the en.wikipedia.org
On my next watch I went on deck to re-tie reefing lines on the mainsail.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Our steering wheel was smashed by the boom when we took off our mainsail.
From the cnn.com
Does he remember the sound of mainsail rigging as it slaps against the mast in early evening?
From the latimes.com
A second blind or vision-impaired person handles the mainsail.
From the sfgate.com
Each team is supplied an AC45 boat and its radical wing mainsail.
From the sacbee.com
- The lowermost sail on the mainmast
- A mainsail is the most important sail raised from the main (or only) mast of a sailing vessel.
- The largest sail, which generates the majority of boat's power.
- The largest regular sail on a sailboat.
- The principal sail of a sailboat, always aft of the main mast in a fore-and-aft rigged boat.
- The most important sail on all boats. This sail sits behind the mast. Most are triangular but other shapes do exist.
- Boomed sail projecting aft from the mainmast
- It is the quadrilateral or triangular sail set from the after part of the mainmast on a fore-and-aft rigged vessel.
- The principal or largest sail on a vessel.
