Towards Noon it moderated, so that we could bear our Maintopsail close Reefd.
Unbent the Maintopsail being Split and bent another; in the night lay too under the Foresail, and in the morning made sail under the Courses and Topsails with one reef only.
Maintopsail to repair, and brought another to the Yard and set it close reefed.
Split theMaintopsail and unbent it, and bent another.
The maintopsail was, in the meantime, taken in, and I felt that I was very glad I was not obliged to lay-out on the yard with the other men.
Just then the helm was put down, and we saw some of them with blows and threats urging the drunken crew to take in the headsails, leaving the maintopsail only to steady the ship.
Get your maintopsail up, but let it lie below the gaff, and shake loose the outer jib.
It held again, however, and he slid to the deck, while the rest were setting the big maintopsail with a yard along the head of it when he went aft.
We were almost within range when her maintopsail filled and she was off, following the direction of her two consorts who had made towards Hispaniola.
In spite of the frantic efforts of the helmsman, the pirate ship flew up into the wind, her maintopsail was taken aback, and she was hove to in a helpless state.
I immediately ordered the maintopsail to be filled, and hurrying on a few clothes, sprang on deck.
Continued to overhaul him, and when we had gotten on his weather-beam, distant about half a mile from him, fired a second gun, which speedily brought him to the wind with his maintopsail to the mast.
But the time had come for me at least to play the man; so I mustered up courage and informed the captain that I desired the maintopsail filled away, in order that we might close up with the Essex Junior.
I also informed him that I wanted the maintopsail filled.
We now shortened sail, and laying the maintopsail to the mast, lowered a couple of quarter boats, and boarded the prizes.
The former method is called heaving-to with the maintopsailto the mast, and the latter, with the foretopsail to the mast.
And, as I said before, if the sails are reefed or furled by the watch, he leads the starboard watch on the main and maintopsail yards, and the best man in the larboard watch leads them at the fore.
Suppose the vessel to be scudding under a close-reefed maintopsailand reefed foresail, with the wind on her larboard quarter.
Suppose her to be scudding under a close-reefed maintopsailand reefed foresail; haul up the foresail, put the helm down, brace up the after yards, and set the mizzen staysail.
When two vessels speak at sea, the one to windward heaves her maintopsail to the mast, and the one to leeward her fore.
Her commander ordered the brig's maintopsail to be hove to the mast.
We stood well in to meet her, and wearing off shore with the maintopsail aback, took her alongside.
Yes, down goes the coil of the maintopsail halyards, and here they come stamping aft.
Merrily we rouse up the chain cables from their rusty lockers, and tumble the anchors off the bow; our maintopsail is thrown aback, and the pilot-boat shoots up within hail.
But, as he spoke, the maintopsail of the next ship, the stranger, swung in to the mast, and his lee quarter boat could be seen projecting from under his counter.
Noon saw us lying to, on the off-shore tack, under a goose-winged maintopsail and storm staysails.
So everything was cleared for action, and after standing on till he judged the ship near enough, the captain ordered the maintopsail hauled aback, and the boats hoisted and swung.
As soon as effected, the maintopsail was again filled, and away the ship glided.
When half a mile from the islets, the main-yard was braced aback, and the maintopsail was laid to the mast.
Fill the maintopsail again,' rapped out the knight.
It was late in the forenoon before the wreck of the foretopmast was launched clear of the ship, and a new maintopsail bent.
Walker, and then came a thundering broadside, dismounting two guns and bringing down the maintopsail yard.
Seeing the flames nearly extinguished, he closed again; but he was premature, for the fire once more flared up, and caught his own maintopsail and foresail.
All our braces and maintopsail yard were shot away, the foremast quite disabled, and the mainmast damaged.
We took in bit by bit every scrap of canvas down to a lower maintopsail and a mizzen-staysail; in due course both these sails disappeared in rags, and it was a brand-new maintopsail too.
Then the maintopsail yard (patent) carried away, and that gave us more joy, and finally the men came aft to the captain and demanded that he should put back to Plymouth or the nearest port.
As soon as we were past the Cape the maintopsail blew away and, the foretopsail and foresail being furled, we lay hove-to under the mizzen-topsail.
He was to take the lee maintopsail yard, call out the bells when struck on deck, and conclude with the cock-crow and blessing on his lords and masters.
We drove too far south, and for a week every afternoon we hove-to under a close-reefed maintopsail for fear of the ice throughout the long hours of Antarctic blackness.
The stump of a foremast showed forward and a stout maintopsail strained away amidships, while aft, where the mizzen should have been, there was nothing showing above her deck.
I thought I heard a fierce oath in a deep voice near by, but Trunnell and the captain were both staring up at the fringe flying from the maintopsail yard, and had evidently said nothing.
Her main topgallant mast was also gone at the cross-trees, but the maintopsail held strongly.
It shone on her maintopsail and staysails and lit up the ocean around her.
The maintopsail they had bent in the morning after extraordinary exertion, and with this they had managed to keep her partly under control.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maintopsail" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
