We were in two floundering heaps, as we dragged at the mainboom aft, and the head-sheets on the forecastle, while she came trembling up in the long bight of the sea, and took the gale steadily before her other beam.
He did not pause to consider when the bows climbed out and the stern sank down in a rush of foam, and had he done so, in all probability he would have brought the big mainboom smashing over.
Soon after they had done this Mr. Oliver put down his helm, causing the mainboom to jerk and thrash to and fro furiously, while as the boat came up head to wind a white sea struck her side and foamed on board her.
The big mainboom had swung over of its own accord amidst a great clatter of blocks.
Harry was busy forward just then with the mooring chain in his hand and the loose jib thrashing about him, while the big mainboom jerked over Mr. Oliver's head as he sat at the helm.
The mainboomhad disappeared, though the broken gaff and part of the sail were still attached to the hull by a mass of tangled gear.
Once or twice he imagined that he came perilously near to bringing the mainboom over, and he would have called Harry to the helm if he had felt certain that he could cling to the slender lurching spar as well as his comrade could.
The house, which occupied most of the vessel's quarter, was low so that the mainboom could swing over it, and it was evident that the cabin floor was sunk some feet below the level of the deck.
Then he shoved down his helm, and the mainboom slashed furiously as the boat came up toward the wind.
I see what it is now; it is her mainboom that we have shot away.
Even then he appeared to have misgivings, and the light was growing dim before they had jammed one end of them fast and hove the other up with the end of the mainboom lashed to it.
Jordan's voice rang out, and the long mainboom swung out again, while there was by contrast a curious ease of motion when the Champlain, rising more upright, turned her stern to the sea.
Stickine pulled over the wheel, the long mainboom swung out amidst a rattle of blocks, and the Champlain came round, until instead of sailing close hauled to it she was running before the wind.
Then she swung further yet, and as the big mainboom came down the little three-cornered trysail went thrashing up the mast.
The schooner was making her six knots, with mainboom well out on her quarter and broad wisps of froth washing off beneath her bows, slanted until her leeward scuppers were close above the sliding foam.
Then, as the great mainboom went up high above the sea, Valentine signed to him.
Her mainboomwas down on her quarter, and she had only her foresail set and a little streaming jib.
Then the ponderous mainboom went up high above his head, and he saw three shadowy figures dragged aft as they tried in vain to steady it.
There is always a certain possibility of bringing a fore-and-aft rigged vessel's mainboom over when she is running hard, and this is rather apt to result in disaster to her spars.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mainboom" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
