spread of sail

Daughter of pearl-fishers along the Dorvali coast, she appreciated a fine spread of sail.

Determined to avoid battle, Lacrosse turned southeast, hoping to use his wider spread of sail to outrun his opponent in the strong winds.

There are various "reefs" for the different spread of sails; these are full sail, dagger point, sword point and first reef.

The following morning an ungainly-looking ship with elaborate structures fore and aft wallowed into the harbor under an obviously top-heavy spread of sail.

GLORY It is their spread of sail that gives Glory and her sister-ships the name of Goldenwing.

He glanced over his shoulder, saw the Spaniard - a magnificent spread of sail - heard her hail loud and clear, clenched his mouth, and spun the wheel.

King Honigalus and his officers stood glum on the quarterdeck of their huge flagship beneath a full spread of sails that only fitfully filled with gentle breezes.

A model of the hull carrying the Buckau's spread of sail and an identical one with two rotors showed the immense superiority of the latter in all wind directions (Figure 4).

She raised herself from her narrow cot to peer out her little window and saw several other ships of the convoy, their spread of sail magnificently white under the blue of the Mediterranean sky.

If I lend magical winds of my own to its great spread of sail, two or three days is all it will take to reach Skullbone Peel by way of Icebear Channel.

They sailed out of Funchal roads majestically, with a broad spread of sail, and Riley's jubilant air announced his hopes for greater speed had been answered even before he said, "Eight knots, or nearly; what do you say to that?"

It was the kind of dawn for which one lived-a full catch salted down, the water-butts filled, the evaporators trickling from their thousand tubes nine gallons each sunrise to sunset, wind enough for easy steerageway and a pretty spread of sail.

Its weakness was its technical conservatism; although in 1880 the Admiralty agreed to reintroduce breechloading guns on heavy ships, the armoured cruisers Impérieuse and Warspite, which were laid down in the same year, were still designed to carry a full spread of sail.

A noble spread of sails, upon my word,' said Stephen; and indeed he was by no means unmoved by the beauty of sail above sail, sail beyond sail, taut, rounded, and alive, nor by the huge curved shadows, and intricate geometry of line and brilliant surface.

Fortunately, there was little work to be done with so light a spread of sail: the sailors were gathered on the forecastle, gambling with their grog rations and intent on their game of dice; the handful of aviators remaining on duty were talking together softly at the rail.

Borne on the waves in the middle distance, surfers were heading towards a shore which they would never reach, Beyond them, a beautiful passenger clipper which any travel agent would recognize instantly as Tsung Sea-Space Corporation's Tai-Pan was racing along the horizon under a full spread of sail.

"Let us get under way as best we can," Riley said to Purbeck; though the main- and mizzen sails and rigging had been badly mauled, the foremast and its rigging were untouched but for a few tangled ropes, and they managed to get a small spread of sail before the wind.