And try and get the sails trimmed while the rain has stopped: there's no need to soak the men again.

Without delay, all sails were unfurled and trimmed to the wind.

The steersman watched the sails change shape and tension, and with the lever trimmed the direction of the ship to make up for it.

The little windlasses were continually turning, playing lines in or out as the autopilot kept the sail trimmed at the correct angle to the Sun.

With the sails trimmed he took up the perspective glass again.

Bligh bore up and ordered the sails trimmed once more, when we perceived that the reefs jutted far out to sea ahead of us.

He was sure that all was in order, the halliards well turned, the sails suitably trimmed.

Before all the wounded had been carried below and the sails trimmed, the firing from thePeacock's guns had become sporadic.

Aitken put down his speaking trumpet: the yards were braced and the sails trimmed.

She looked sleek and graceful, her sails well cut and well trimmed.