Sometimes it was a frightened trader, which had come tearing in with her canvas curved like a lady's bodice, because she had seen a patched foretopsail rising slowly above the violet water-line.
The foremast was still standing, but the foretopsail was flying loose, and the headsails were streaming out in long, white pennons in front of her.
The former method is called heaving-to with the maintopsail to the mast, and the latter, with the foretopsail to the mast.
If the close-reefed foretopsail is carried instead of the main, it can be easily filled.
If the ship flies off and gets by the lee, the foretopsail is soon braced about, and, with the maintopmast staysail sheet shifted to the other side, the headway is not lost.
It has been thought that with the wind quartering and a heavy sea, a vessel is more under command with a close-reefed foretopsail and maintopmast staysail.
Though at anchor itsforetopsail will be set; you'll know it by that.
After Roswell had made a stretch out into the bay of about a mile, he laid his foretopsail flat aback, hauled over his jib-sheet, and put his helm hard down, in waiting for the other schooner to come out and join him.
I cannot please all, I care not to please some men; if I may be happie to please thee, I need not fear whom I displease.
Presently theforetopsail filled with the land breeze, the water rippled louder along the sides of the moving vessel, the ship swayed to the wind.
The foretopsail sheet bitts presented the next eligible place, and here I "mounted guard.
Spike was on the taffrail, overhauling the main-sheet, and Mulford was near him, casting the foretopsail braces from the pins, preparatory to clapping on the halyards.
The brig was now under herforetopsail and spanker, and steered so easily that Joe had little hard work to do.
As the foretopsail and spanker were enough to give steerage-way to the brig, Charley ordered the foresail to be hauled up and the jib taken in immediately after breakfast.
On approaching she was found to be lying-to, with her foretopsail laid to the mast, and on a somewhat nearer inspection, proved evidently to be a whaler.
Next moment came the sharp order to hoist the foretopsail and jib, soon followed by "Cut the cable!
One and another of the backstays parted, the foretopsail burst with a cannon-like report, after which a terrible rending sound, followed by an indescribable crash, told that both masts had gone by the board.
Working one day on the foretopsail yard, my knife, which by some means had become detached from my lanyard, fell on the forecastle.
They were soon able to set the foretopsail and jib, and get the brig about, and away they went in hot chase after their antagonist.
The foretopsail had stood, being a new stout sail, and it being closely reefed, Rayner hoped that the little vessel would lay to under it.
About noon the close-reefed foretopsailburst open from earing to earing, and then ripped up to the yard, the corners stretching out before the wind and cracking like musket shots.
Hardly was the jib secured before the great mainsail ripped open from top to bottom, and in the same puff the close-reefed foretopsail split in two with a bang, from earing to earing.
Two points off the weather bow, sir," replied the lookout from the foretopsail yard.
Towards sunset that afternoon, when we were entering the Bay of Biscay, the lookout man on the foretopsail yard hailed the deck.
Amid much noise and many larks they managed to get the foretopsail reefed.
Everything had been swept from the deck, and Captain Bourne's eldest son, who was serving as able-seaman, had been knocked off the lee foretopsailyardarm while assisting to close reef the topsail.
Foretopsail to the Yard, the old one being quite wore out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foretopsail" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
