I suppose Mr. Ross has to think twice before telling his men to get the yacht ready, or even that big lugsail boat.
The wind did hold, as it proved; and long before the young ladies made their appearance Big Archie and his assistant had the lugsail hoisted and the cumbrous craft smartened up as much as might be.
There's a nice southwester blowing now, and under the big lugsail we ought to overhaul the canoe before he does so.
The light was growing each moment, the breeze dying fast, and presently the damp lugsail slatted against the mast.
From these details it would seem that she was dandy-rigged, that is to say, she had a mizzen or jigger in addition to her cutter rig, and on this jigger would be set a small lugsail as was the old custom.
The same afternoon the Swallow chased a large lugsail boat, with fourteen hands in her, and supposed to belong to the Kent.
There was something of a breeze, and they hoisted a lugsail so that they should run out to meet the steamer.
And then, as they got under the lee of the island, they found themselves in smoother water, though from time to time squalls came over and threatened to flatten the great lugsail right on to the waves.
The great bulk of the steamer soon floated away, and the lugsail was run up again, and the boat made slowly back for Castle Dare.
And then the lugsail was hauled down, and they lay on the lapping water; and they could hear all around them the soft callings of the guillemots and razor-bills, and other divers whose home is the heaving wave.
Keep her close up, sir," said the man who had the sheet of the hugelugsail in both his hands, as he cast a glance out at the darkening sea.
The fisherman hoisted a small, black lugsail and jib, and took the tiller as the boat listed gently down to a biting wind.
Whitney knew it was a lugsail boat beating up the Firth, and he saw that she would pass at a few yards' distance if she stood on.
The night our lamp went out on Mersehead sands," Whitney said, "I saw a lugsail boat.
One well-known and elderly amateur sails a lugsail boat alone, but at a proper distance behind him comes his man in another single-handed boat.
His first great success was the 'Cigarette,' a centreboard lugsail boat, which won a great number of prizes and was a perfect witch in going to windward.
Mr Lathrope, the lugsail swinging aside and enabling him and the others to see into the boat clearly, a thing which had been previously impossible from the boat's coming up end on.
It has got out of the set of the tide and has the wind well abeam, just the thing for that lugsail she carries.
All being satisfactory, if the yacht is a 5-rater the first thing to be done will be to have the lugsail altered into a gaff-mainsail for handiness sake.
This will be only a small expense, since the great peak of the lugsail will allow of its head being squared.
If a standing lugsail is preferred, the peak should be cut high, and the long yard should be as light as is consistent with the necessary strength.
They have very little gear with the lugsail rig, and the decks are always clear.
The peak of her lugsail is cut very high, and her mast, yard, and boom are very light and workmanlike.
He was right: the lugsail was careering out to us and came alongside at length, and, after fearful trouble, got fastened to the Fingal.
On one occasion, in the West Highlands, I availed myself of a lugsailferry to cross an arm of the sea and so avoid a long détour by land.
We got back to Lerwick in a lugsail that was full of passengers, potatoes, and milk-cans.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lugsail" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
