The bolt fell off, he saw Harry flung down with the spinnaker rolling about him, and he scarcely dared to breathe as the rows of lights ahead lengthened and the black wedge of the steamer's bows faded from his sight.
He floundered forward to the foot of the mast, and when he came back the spinnaker was drawing steadily and the sloop had changed her mode of progress.
You want two pairs of hands to set a spinnaker in a breeze of wind.
He let the spinnaker guy run, and the big sail which heaved up the spar beneath it swung wildly forward.
Scrambling forward, he crawled out along the spinnaker boom, to which he clung precariously, lifted up high one moment and the next swung down until his feet were just above the foam.
It's awkward running a boat with a spinnaker unless you have a crew," remarked Harry with a somewhat puzzled look.
A spinnaker boom always goes forward of the shrouds and you lead the guy aft outside them," he said.
Frank was very cautious as he eased the rope out around a cleat, after which, when the spinnaker boom had drawn forward, he found that he could luff the boat.
This was clever work, but the Spray sailors did fully as as well, for they had their spinnaker on just as fast.
Baby jib top-sails had been sent down before the rounding, and spinnaker poles were now ready for the balloon sail.
There were no more squalls, naught but fine weather, a fair wind, and a whirling log, with sheets slacked off and with spinnaker and mainsail swaying and bellying on either side.
But that little craft, her big spinnaker filled by the southeast trade, was making a good race of it.
We altered our course, and, with mainsail and spinnaker bellying to the squall, drove past.
He made four trips the first day and at dusk had the satisfaction of beholding many tons of rails, fish-plates and spikes unloaded and neatly piled in the yarding place at the Spinnaker end of the carry.
A half-hour later the young engineer had established his Spinnakerterminal point, and was running his lines.
Then came the long paddle across Spinnaker Lake, with only the unfamiliar insecurity of a canoe beneath him, and after that the six-mile Poquette carry.
You must get construction material and supplies across Spinnaker before the ice breaks up.
Apparently there's other folks as have new schemes of travellin' acrost Spinnaker Lake," observed the postmaster, breaking a long silence in the group of spectators.
There's only one thing that's harder than your fist, an' that's Spinnaker ice.
Far up Spinnaker a dim white bulk seemed to hover above the ice.
We're goin' to see warm times on the Spinnaker waters.
Therefore he selected his landing on the Spinnaker shore, and resolved to make all haste in hauling his material across the lake.
I simply want help in getting this stuff across Spinnaker Lake.
If that young feller hain't got a horse there that'll beat anything that even Colonel Gid Ward himself ever sent across Spinnaker Lake!
His material must be conveyed across Spinnaker Lake in some other way.
To-day, Bert and Captain Eames set the spinnaker sail.
I'm going to call Tehei now and go to bed in the finest bed I've had for a long time--the spinnaker sail folded up aft the cockpit.
Then Valentine and Jimmy came in along the booms, stowed the spinnaker with some difficulty, and dropped the topsail too, for the dim mainland shore was black ahead when the rest left the deck to them.
There was just enough wind to barely ruffle the surface of the gently-swelling ocean, yet our patent log told us we were going rather over six knots, mainly through the persuasive influence of our spinnaker and gigantic balloon-topsail.
Accordingly, having advised Bob of what I had seen and of my intention, we took in the spinnaker and gaff-topsail, lowered the topmast, and then hauled up for the stranger.
By the time I had got my spinnaker set she was abreast of us, about half a mile outside and consequently to leeward.
When Bob called me at midnight, however, the wind had hauled so far round from the eastward that it became necessary to shift the spinnaker to the bowsprit-end; and this we accordingly did.
Your spinnaker gear will probably do at a pinch to replace a broken halliard or sheet.
The spinnaker boom can also be allowed to range further forward on the bow than under our system.
Thus the jib can be reefed or unreefed, or set at an angle, and converted into a spinnaker in a few seconds.
The method adopted by American yachtsmen for setting the spinnaker has many points in its favour.
In hoisting the spinnaker it will be found a great saving of labour to send it up in stops ready for breaking out when the pull at the outhaul is taken.
Be careful when you come to the run to put spinnaker up on the best side; and, if you run by the lee, shift it over at once without parleying with the boy.
A jackyard topsail that requires no topmast can be set, and a spinnaker will be found very useful for running in light weather.
On the run out for the breakwater the second time spinnakers were set, when the 'Vril' was unfortunate enough to carry away the goose-neck of her spinnaker boom.
But when Sam and his wife spoke of leaving the Spinnaker Boom, Captain Abner was perfectly willing to go with them.
There was a large hotel for summer visitors who could afford to pay good prices, and several smaller houses of entertainment, such as the Spinnaker Boom, where people of moderate means were made very comfortable.
Sam Twitty was glad to hear this, and advised him to stop at the Spinnaker Boom, where he and Captain Abner intended to stay until they finished the business which brought them to Thompsontown.
This was clever work, but the Spray sailors did fully as well, for they had their spinnaker on just as fast.
In another second she has sheered round; and then the great spinnaker bulges out with the breeze, and away she goes up the river again.
The spinnaker boom has caught the careless skipper and pitched him clean into the plashing waters, where he floats about, not as yet certain, probably, what course his vessel will take.
Then she picked her parcels one by one from the folds of the spinnaker in which they had wrapped themselves.
Feeling that temptation might prove overpowering, she put the slices of cold fish out of sight under the spinnaker with the remark that they ought to be kept for Miss Rutherford.
She herself pulled a spinnaker from beneath the stern sheets and explained to Frank that when she had hoisted it the boat's speed would be considerably increased.
Priscilla hurriedly turned over the corner of the spinnaker and got out the jam pot.
Then she made him uncomfortable by hitting him several times in different parts of the body with a long spar which she called the spinnaker boom.
A light north-east trade-wind was blowing, and we were running before it at a fair rate through the smooth water, with topsail and racing spinnaker set.
Our racing spinnaker and its boom had proved to be rather large and unmanageable for the purposes of an ocean voyage; but our balloon foresail was of about the right size for a cruising spinnaker.
As the boom of our racing spinnaker was a very heavy spar and formed a considerable top weight while standing along the mainmast in the usual way, we unshipped it from its gooseneck and laid it on deck.
A light air from the east sprang up at night, but, though we now had racing spinnaker and topsail on the vessel, we made little progress, and it seemed as if we could not lose sight of the lights of Portland.
Even as they watched, they saw Jones drop his spinnakerand re-rig it on the new tack.
The working jib is the small bag, and the spinnakerwill be as heavy as the mainsail.
Didn’t you say that we can do better on a reach than a boat with a spinnaker can do downwind?
His sails were trimmed fuller, his spinnaker lofted higher, and a white bow wave broke out to signify Jones’s new speed.
But—but I saw the bag marked spinnaker the other day!
As the flaming spinnaker spread its fire to the mainsail and the mast, they saw Jones rise in the cockpit, level his rifle and shoot.
If he thinks he’s on his own boat, he knows he hasn’t got a spinnaker below, and maybe he won’t see any reason to go poking around in our sail locker.
He’s using his spinnaker now as if it were a genoa.
He surely hasn’t had time to get hisspinnaker down and his genoa up, has he?
What he did was to bring the spinnaker pole forward and lash it to the deck, so that it made a kind of bowsprit.
I wish I could see how he has his spinnaker sheeted, but I can’t make it out.
That’s the way we were sailing when Jones first started after us, and with his spinnaker in place, he’ll have us in no time!
But she is our own; and they never saw her with jackyarder spread, or spinnaker or jib-topsail delicate as samite--those heavenly wings!
Red Rose rolled savagely and main boom and spinnaker boom tossed their ends aloft.
The spinnaker swelled like a balloon and, with the tall mainsail on the other side, dwarfed the speeding hull.
The boat yawed about and steering needed skill, since, if Wyndham let her swerve, spinnaker or mainsail would swing across and mast or boom would go.
There were, perhaps, two hundred yards between the flag-boat and the pier; they ought to haul down the spinnaker now, but Harry would carry on.
Her spinnaker collapsed like a torn balloon, but Red Rose leaped on, pressed by straining sail.
At first the spinnaker hung slack, but presently lifted in gentle curves; then the water splashed against the planks and Red Rose began to move.
A shadow touched the spinnaker and Marston looked astern.
The spinnaker went into the sea, the topsail thrashed half-way up the mast, and Red Rose listed until the water was deep on her lee deck.
A British yacht's spinnaker is not fitted with a gaff.
Marston saw the lights for a few moments when the spinnaker soared away from the boom.
Marston looked at the high topsail and bending spinnaker boom.
By eight o'clock that night we were off the North Foreland, bowling along at a slashing pace, with our mainsail boomed out to starboard, and our spinnaker set on the port side, jib and foresail stowed.
The substitution of the spinnaker for the jib and foresail made a very great difference in our rate of sailing.
There was just enough wind to barely ruffle the surface of the gently swelling ocean, yet our patent log told us we were going rather over six knots, mainly through the persuasive influence of our spinnaker and gigantic balloon-topsail.
I got out the flying-jib made at Juan Fernandez, and set it as a spinnaker from the stoutest bamboo that Mrs. Stevenson had given me at Samoa.
The spinnaker pulled like a sodger, and the bamboo holding its own, the Spray mended her pace.
On the 11th, with all sail set and with the spinnaker still abroad, Christmas Island, about noon, came into view one point on the starboard bow.
The spinnaker must be the same size as the jibs in these races.
The breeze kept up, and the spinnaker was carried on 'Britannia' until Cape Barfleur lights were made out right ahead.
Challenge' with her little spinnaker on the port hand and 'Mona,' .
Valkyrie' had made a clever start, and keeping to the Essex side was first to square away in Sea Reach, and get spinnaker set to port.
Down spinnaker boom,' and now every thread draws and the whole sail is pulling hard.
Get your gear on your spinnaker boom, my lads, and top him as soon as you can.
Owing to an alteration in the character of the lights not being noticed on the chart for a time, it was thought 'Britannia' was too far to the westward, the spinnaker was then got off, and the vessel hauled up a little.
No sooner had I become aware that I loved Andrew Spinnakerthan my conscience told me I had no right to do so.
To-morrow, unless Andrew Spinnaker saved me, I should be Lady Wurzel.
It is shaped like a large jib, and is spread by means of a small spar extending along its foot, called the “spinnaker boom,” so that it may take the wind on the side opposite the mainsail.
A spinnaker is a very handy sail, and preferable to a squaresail in light weather.
Lotus, seeing her mistake, set a spinnaker and tried to stem the tide, but it was too late, and again Sea Maiden took first gun, and the Muriel Challenge cup for the best of three races.
They are just getting the spinnaker on deck," said Jack, nodding toward the bows.
If Jack intended to say that the spinnaker would make the Ideal go fast, he was right.
The light sails commonly employed off the wind are the spinnaker and balloon jib.
A small spinnaker is a great help in steering a boat when running before a strong breeze.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spinnaker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
