trysail

On the foremast is a similar sail, called the trysail.

The trysail was slowly going up the stay.

We set a storm trysail on the mizzen, and took in the mainsail.

Thus, the only bit of canvas left on her was the storm trysail on the mizzen.

I judged her to be of about twenty tons; she had a trysail set and heavily reefed down.

There, with the helm hard over to counteract the main trysail, she should lie hove-to.

We handed the trysail and lay under bare poles abeam to the seas.

The wind crackled the frail trysail.

The fallen crossyard had torn the puny trysail like a cobweb.

From watching the tumbling waves astern he glanced up to see the main trysail was hoisted and sheeted home.

Norry, you and the men work on rigging a trysail on the foremast.

She presented her stern to the island, with her engine barely turning over and a trysail out to hold her head into the wind.

Spencer (sail) or Trysail, a small low sail used to maintain control of a sailing vessel in very high winds.

Dunvane squinted through the tangle of rigging, masts, and the billowing trysail.

A sail rigged in this position without a boom is generally called a trysail, and is used in extremely heavy weather.

We handed the mainsail altogether and set the trysail, a triangular handkerchief-sized piece of strong canvas intended for heavy weather.

I left the tiller to Coertze and stumbled forward to the mast and hoisted the trysail.

In extreme weather, a mainsail can be folded and a trysail hoisted to allow steerage without endangering the boat.

Mr Dillon, trysail and staysails.

The winds produced no significant damage, but did disrupt power to 16,500 utility customers and delayed the Trysail College Regatta.

"He replaced the reefed main with a storm trysail, now the only sail on the boat," he writes in the extraordinary story "The Refugee."

The trysail provides enough thrust to maintain control of the ship (e.g. to avoid ship damage, and to keep the bow to the wind).

Captain Walker ordered his officers to say nothing to the passengers concerning the situation, then had a trysail hoisted which was immediately ripped apart by the wind.

Ramage pointed up in the air and he could see Southwick's mouth working as he hurried the men at the trysail halyards.

It was probably hopeless; but he tugged Southwick's arm, shouting: "Main storm trysail - can we hoist it?"