Although there would be no difficulty in bringing the end of a bowsprit directly over the fish, a skilful harpooner never waits for this.
The vessel plows and swashes through the water, plunging its bowsprit into the waves without exciting their fears.
The swordfish are always harpooned from the end of the bowsprit of a sailing-vessel.
As our first loud yell of terror broke forth, it was replied to by something, from near the bowsprit of the stranger, so closely resembling the scream of a human voice that the nicest ear might have been startled and deceived.
His knees were lodged upon a stout rope, tightly stretched, and reaching from the heel of the bowspritto a cathead.
Judicial proceedings followed with a verdict for the King, so that what with a broken bowsprit and the loss of time, cargo, ship, and liberty the voyage had in nowise been profitable to Cawley.
The Bowsprit Bitts to run down to the Ceiling, with a Bolt in the Keel of each, and so placed that the Bowsprit may be run aft clear of the Mast Larboard Side.
From this it will be seen that whereas Falconer and other nautical authorities relied on the fixing of the bowsprit to determine the difference, the legal authorities relied on a difference in hull.
The lugger was found to be decked and clinker-built with a running bowspriton which she set a jib.
Our English authority, Falconer, described the cutter as having one mast and a straight-running bowsprit that could be run inboard on deck.
The real difference, then, was that the cutter could run her bowsprit inboard, but the sloop could not.
So, as soon as thebowsprit was repaired and set in its place, the Lyme Packet cast off her warps and ran out of Weymouth harbour.
Falconer also states that a sloop differs from a cutter by having a fixed steeving bowsprit and a jib-stay.
He jumped on the end of the bowsprit and Marston smiled, for it looked as if he could not use his tricks when one kept one's eye on him.
When the new bowspritwas fitted they set off again along the coast and stopped at another rock-bound port.
Marston, sitting on the bowsprit loosing the jib, watched the shadowy wall move back.
A white comber rose to windward, there was a thud, and jib and shortbowsprit vanished.
We'll need a new bowsprit and she's drawn the stay-bolt on the stem," he said.
Her bowsprit loomed above it, threatening and big, and the oars bent as the Kroos drove the boat ahead.
However, a new bowsprit doesn't cost much; the only trouble is, we'll have to stay while somebody makes it.
Already the Revenge's bowsprit had been shot away, her foremast had fallen by the board, and her main topmast was lying across her main-deck with two Englishmen and seven Spaniards crashed under its weight.
The enemy just then got clear of the Hornet; and his foremast and bowsprit being both gone, and perceiving preparations to give him another broadside, he again called out that he had surrendered.
The enemy's bowsprit came in between the main and mizen rigging on the starboard side of the Hornet, giving him an opportunity to board, if he had wished but no attempt was made.
Bowsprit gone, and all the forward bulwarks, leaving us helpless on the water, and you say you kept a good lookout.
Hilary looked aloft, and then at the way in which the cutter lay over, dipping her bowsprit from time to time in the waves.
We've lost the bowsprit and figurehead, and there's some planks started; but I think we shall float.
The sheets were hooked on, and then while one hand ran the sail out with the out haul to the bowsprit end, the other hoisted with the halliards.
He took care to wrap the sheet twice about a cleat before hoisting away, but as soon as the jib rose above the low gunwale, the wind tore it from the lower bolt-ropes, and it blew straight out, held only by the bowsprit halliard.
In the mean time the Spaniard, by cutting away our rigging, in which his bowsprit was entangled, swung clear of us, and fell away to leeward.
At last her bowsprit was between the main and fore rigging of the Arrow, and her decks were swept by the Arrow's raking fire.
By this time the serpent—for it was a sea-serpent—had twisted itself round the bowspritof the vessel, and was about twenty feet long.
She then in the most gallant manner locked her bowsprit in our starboard main shrouds, and attempted to board us with the greater part of her officers and ship’s company.
We gave up the monkey for lost, until the following day, when he re-appeared on the skirts of the forest, and marched quietly down the bowspritto his usual place on deck.
We succeeded in getting free, and the stout-built boat fell off into the strong current farther away from the shore, Joaquim swinging himself dexterously aboard by the bowsprit as it passed the point.
Now the deck is laid and tacked down, and the joints painted, and calked if needed, the stem and stern-post replaced permanently, and the bowsprit screwed to the deck and stem.
The length of the bowsprit is eight and a half inches from the point a, Fig.
The chief differences were in the rigging of the bowsprit and of the two after masts.
Ducking from the bowsprit end, towing in a rope astern, and marooning, were also practised as punishments for the pilferer.
If they still offended in this kind they were taken and tied to the bowsprit end, with rations of beer and bread, and left there with leave to starve or fall into the sea.
One trawler, named the Alice, which broke adrift at high tide, was carried up to the head of the harbour with her bowsprit eight feet in over the Strand, close alongside the Prince of Orange statue.
She ran so far in that the crew--five in number--managed to drop from the bowsprit on to the rocks.
The schooner Pride of the West, of Padstow, had her bowsprit carried away, under Hillsborough, and was towed into Ilfracombe harbour.
Ledyard had climbed out on the bowspritwith a length of rope.
For her the northwesterly was a following wind, not her best wind but good enough; her low-slung bowsprit leaned joyfully to the sparkle of harmless whitecaps, outward bound.
Mr. Kenny, why is thebowsprit slanted so low to the water?
Her bowsprit and the canvas stretched on it flew to leeward.
This they accomplished by dropping down from the little stump of a bowsprit as the water receded, and running up on to the dry sand before it returned.
At each turn the gammoning hawser is hove taut, while every effort is used to bring the bowsprit down into its place.
To remedy this, the bowsprit has been devised, chiefly as an out-rigger for the fore-stay.
In the middle of the race she broke her bowsprit off short in the stem, and in a few minutes was, for all sailing purposes, practically a wreck.
Her length from the fore part of stem under the bowsprit to the aft side of the head of the stern-post is 97.
The throat was hoisted nearly up; the peak was half hoisted; then the jib was bent on, and hauled out to the bowsprit end.
Let us tauten the bowsprit shrouds a bit," said Ellis.
The writer, however, sprung upon deck, where he found the sailors busily employed in rigging out the bowsprit and in setting sail.
Her bowsprit was also soon afterwards taken in, the topmasts struck, and everything made SNUG, as seamen term it, for a gale.
In the middle of all were two square, wooden columns, denominated in marine architecture "Bowsprit Bitts.
Wymontoo, overjoyed, and running out upon the bowsprit when the land was first faintly descried in the distance.
The bowsprit of the schooner was now almost among the mangrove bushes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bowsprit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
