With McGuffey's help the sheets came home, the halyards were taken to, the yards mast-headed, and the halyards belayed to their pin.
Mr. Gibney sprang to the fore-top-sail halyards and let them go and the fore-top-sail came down by the run.
Let go the main-top-sail halyards as you come by an' stand by the compressor on the windlass.
Now then, we'll cast off them jib halyards an' make 'em fast.
Under Gibney's direction, the jib halyards were taken through the leading blocks to the winch head; McGuffey manned the winch and the jib was hauled up.
Two miles off the High Rock ledges; you were headed directly for them," replied Leopold, as he let go the halyards of the mainsail.
The size of the halyards rendered this expedient very difficult of attainment, but enough was done to give the arrangement a little more of the air of security.
Wychecombe, too, was aware that these particular halyardswere new, for he had assisted in reeving them himself, only the week before.
Doubling the halyards twice, he threw the bight over Wychecombe's shoulders, and aided by Mildred, endeavoured to draw the body of the young man upwards and towards the cliff.
All this time young Wychecombe was making his own preparations on the ledge, and quite out of view; but the tension on the halyards soon announced that his weight was now pendent from them.
Signal-halyards are ropes smaller than the little finger of a man of any size; but they are usually made with care, and every rope-yarn tells.
There, of a certainty, lay a pretty sloop at anchor, and presently there came to Harvey's ears the creaking of the halyards and of the ropes in the blocks as the mainsail fluttered up.
While Henry Burns hoisted the sail slightly, the brothers hastily tied in the reefs, and the halyards were then drawn taut at throat and peak and made fast.
His brother sprang to the halyards at the warning, but it was a moment too late.
Henry Burns and Arthur Warren, at the risk of going overboard, managed to get the broken boom aboard, after they had let the halyards run, and lashed it astern, so that the yacht was utterly without sail.
Get hold of the halyards and get into gear, Dunnerwust," ordered Bart, sharply.
The White Wings ran in amid the vessels and swung up her head to the wind, her anchor going over with a splash and her sails coming down as if the halyards were handled by veteran yachtsmen, instead of a lot of amateurs.
Then Kitchell ordered the peak halyards unrove and used as lashings to tie the canvas around the corpse.
Make fast the stays'l halyards to the dory's warp!
Charlie, who was at the wheel, spoke a sentence in Chinese, and one of the hands drew his knife across the halyards and brought the distress signal to the deck.
The halyards lead to the taffrail, having a pendant and treble purchase block, which becomes the backstay, to support the mast when the sail is set.
Have the fly-block of the topsail halyards above the top, and rack the runner to the topmast backstay or after shroud.
The topmast studdingsail halyards are generally kept coiled away in the top.
A better way is to start the sheets, clew about one third up, then let go the halyards and take the slack in.
The lower block of the mizzen topsail halyards is usually in the mizzen-top, the fall coming down on deck.
The upper block of the throat halyards is secured under the cap, and the lower block is hooked to an eye-bolt on the jaws of the gaff.
Seize the tack to the boom, the hanks to the luff of the sail, and the halyards to its head.
Used for bending studdingsail halyards to the yard.
This sail is always set from the top; the sail, together with the tack and halyards in two coils, being kept in the top.
Bend the halyards to the yard, about one half of the way out.
If the wind is light, and from aft or quartering, let go the halyards and clew down, squaring the yard by the braces.
Get the studdingsail clear, bend the outer halyards to the yard, and the innerhalyards to the inner cringle at the head of the sail.
Sometimes the halyards are unrove from the yard-arm and rounded up to the span-block, with a knot in their end.
The royal yards are crossed in the same manner as the topgallant yards, except that in most merchantmen they would be sent up by the halyards instead of a yard-rope.
Bend the jib halyards round the body of the sail, and the downhaul to the tack.
The halyards were held on the pin with a turn and twist that Rainey swiftly loosened, lifting the coil free, making a fast loop, and thrusting head and arms through it as he flung himself after the roustabout.
He came sliding down the halyards to the deck as Lund said: "That'll be Makushin.
They were evidently busy with the halyards at the little opening, down beside which the flag-pole butt was fixed in iron loops, and through which window the flag was hoisted and the halyards secured.
But the quick eye of the captain of the foretop saw the danger, and springing to the staysail halyards he cut the sail away, and the ship relieved of pressure forward, again came up to the wind.
The halyards dropped from each one's hand, and a general scramble resembling a panic ensued.
The little vessel of which I am writing hadn't a rope (as the sailors said) strong enough to hang a cat with, and it was in consequence of this most culpable neglect that the throat halyards of the fore trysail gaff broke soon after sailing.
But though the halyards were let go, it was impossible to clew down the yards, owing to the enormous horizontal strain on the canvas.
More slowly now, the wind falling, the brigantine crept up the river, her crew alert with sheets and halyards as the devious windings of the stream rendered it necessary to trim the canvas at varying angles to catch the wind.
But when at least the boom was thrashing overhead and the halyards had been made fast to their cleats, the fisherman again stood erect, peering distrustfully at the distant wall of cloud.
The halyards are fastened to the upper portions of the sail, and they are named according to the sail to which they are attached.
As the six men climbed the steps, he pulled out the corresponding code signal from the locker, and ran it up on the other part of the halyardsas the ensign fluttered down.
I will take the steering-oar; Jose can manage the bow oar; and you, Halliday, and Charlie can tend the halyards and sheet.
The people sprang to the halyards and brails; but before all the sail could be taken off the vessel, the squall had struck her.
Several of the shot told--the head of the mainsail was riddled, and down came our peak, the halyards shot away in two places.
Meanwhile all halyards had been let run two or three minutes earlier, and the canvas was rolled up anyhow, everybody, from the skipper to the cabin boy, seeming to be suddenly seized with a perfect delirium of excitement.
As Albert and Stedman came upon the scene, the flag-pole was in place, and the halyards hung from it with a little bundle of bunting at the end of one of them.
A sailor seized the halyards and pulled the ensign to the deck, and, as it fell upon the reddened planking, a wild, frenzied cheer came from the French privateers.
Seizing the ensign-halyards of the Serapis, as the raging torrent of seamen rolled towards him, the brave English sea-captain hauled the flag of his ship to the deck.
Then we let go the fore topmast staysail halyards and hauled down the sail; finally laying out and securing it before going aloft to furl the topsails, which we tackled one at a time.
My two companions fully agreed with me; and accordingly, thehalyards having already been let go, and the yards lowered to the caps, we let go the sheets and manned the clewlines and buntlines, first of the main and then of the fore topsail.
Now, have your jib halyards ready, and stand by the moorings," said Dandy.
Stand by the moorings, Cyd, and have your jib halyards ready!
Harry got to the top of the mast and rove the halyards through after some hardship, so that it now works easy and well.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "halyards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
