Man the topsail halliards; up with the jib; loosen those courses; set the spanker sharp, will you?
The picture represents accurately the surprisingly slight damage done the Constitution: note the broken spanker gaff and the shot holes in her topsails.
The picture represents accurately the surprisingly slight damage done the Constitution; note the broken spanker gaff and the shot holes in her topsails.
He was sighting a gun when a round shot cut the spanker boom, and a fragment of the heavy spar knocked him senseless.
It was at night, in our watch, and the wind had headed us off a little rather suddenly, and when we had flattened in the jibs, we clewed down the topsails, while the two Benton boys got the spankersheet aft.
We had shortened sail for it, but as we were by the stern we were carrying the spanker close reefed instead of the storm trysail.
He said that it wasn't that he saw anything, because there wasn't anything to see except the spanker sheet just straining a little, and working in the sheaves of the blocks as the schooner rose to the short seas.
But I didn't think of anything, and as it was broad daylight I went aft again, for I guessed that the old man would turn out before long and order the spanker set and the helm up.
It was the last stroke of bewilderment for the poor captain, that he had no sooner brailed up the spanker than the vessel came before the wind.
The whaleboat was then cut adrift, the upper topsails and the spanker set, the yards braced up, and the spanker sheet hauled out to starboard.
Her rig was made out to be that of a snow, which was very like a brig, the difference being in the larger main-topsail and the absence of a spanker or after steering-sail.
At length he saw a flag whip from thespanker gaff.
She luffed at the same moment, and we just passed each other, our spanker boom grazing over her quarter.
The after yards are then braced up and belayed, the main sheet hauled aft, the spanker eased over to leeward, and the men from the braces stand by the head yards.
There was no sail now on the ship, but the spanker and the close-reefed main topsail, which still held good.
From the deck to the truck I pour all my force, In spanker and jib I am strong; For I make every course to pull like a horse And worry the great ship along.
Who saw the ship going down to the sea With her topsails sheeted home, and her spanker Swelling like a course, foam along the lee, And the crew on the tackle of the anchor?
Tom,' shouted I to Westwood, 'run and let free the spanker on the poop!
Aft, a trysail, set on the spanker boom, helped the tarpaulin in the mizzen to bring her head to the sea.
Some took advantage of this permission, but for the most part they stood huddled in a group along the spanker boom, ready for a call.
A bridle was rigged from the spanker boom and made fast to a life buoy.
Jackwell let down the end of the spanker sheet, and Ford grabbed it, taking a turn around the thwart.
They put storm gaskets on the furled topsails, lowered and stowed the foresail and spanker and took in the two inner jibs.
Slept a lot that day and night; and at eight this morning slacked off my spanker and main sheets, checked in my foreyard and topsail by taking the the braces to the donkey engine, and was off for home.
Yards were squared in, the spanker hauled aft, staysail trimmed to port, and all hands waited while the ship charged down the two miles of intervening sea.
When the watch had braced the yards, the mate ordered the spanker brailed in and the mizzen-royal clued up, as the ship steered hard.
They have hauled out the spankerand are sheeting home the royal.
Let the spanker hang in the brails; tie up the royal," ordered the mate from his position at the break of the poop.
But I didn't think of anything, and as it was broad daylight I went aft again, for I guessed that the Old Man would turn out before long and order the spanker set and the helm up.
In order to save his canvas, the captain ordered the spanker to be balance-reefed.
Captain 'Siah was hopeful, and he encouraged the men at the spanker to renewed exertions.
Need we say that Cuffy responded with intense enthusiasm to this invitation, and that his "spanker boom" became violently demonstrative as he followed his master into the wood.
Coiling down gear, I discovered that the running part of the spanker vang was off the pin, and trailing over the side.
At seven bells, Lynch marshaled us aft again, to set the spanker this time.
The spanker was set, but the weight of the wind on the ship gradually forced the floes open until the 'Endurance' swung right round and drove 100 yds.
Stenhouse shipped a preventer jury-rudder (the weighted spanker gaff), but could not get steerage way.
Next morning he had the spanker gaff rigged over the stern for use as a temporary rudder while in the heavy pack.
I took my revolver on deck one morning, to show him my marksmanship' said she 'I shot a bird on the end of the spanker gaff.
Late in the afternoon, as we sat here under a little patch of awning spread from the spanker boom, we sighted a small barque to the westward, coming up the straits.
There was no sail now on the ship but the spanker and the close-reefed main topsail, which still held good.
She luffed at the same moment, and we just passed one another; our spanker boom grazing over her quarter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spanker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
