Sheets were trimmed for a beam wind, and with flying jibs and balloon staysails set they went racing fast across the down-coming ebb.
Jibheaders were handed, flying jibs lowered, and working staysails set, and travelling upwards of twelve knots there was plenty of drift knocking about.
The wind fairly whistled off shore as they reached on for Goodrington, but 'Calluna' and 'Navahoe' did not lower staysails as on the second round.
After passing the Lower Hope point, sheets were checked, jib topsails and balloon staysails were set, and, with a puffy breeze broad off the Essex side, they went straight up the fairway pushing on a big bow wave.
A rope passing up along a stay, leading through cringles of the staysails or jib, and made fast to the upper corner of the sail to pull it down when shortening sail.
A rope to confine the weather lower corners of the courses and staysails when the wind crosses the ship's course obliquely.
That strength of wind under which close-reefed top-sails and storm-staysails are usually carried when close-hauled.
A strong wind, in which a ship is reduced to storm-staysails and close-reefed main-topsail.
Going forward, I shouted to Olsen: "Get the topsails and staysails on her as fast as you can.
Taking careful cross-bearings of Bangor Island, so as to avoid the dangers and submerged coral reefs that project from it, I ordered the staysails set to increase our speed so that with darkness I would be well to the westward.
Right here I knew he was giving me a dig for daring to set the staysails without his orders.
Yes, sir, I can steer very well, but since you put those staysails on her I can hardly hold her in the water.
Our staysails were put away and stowed in the fore peak when we came into port.
It seemed that those staysails were all that were holding her back to show me she was worthy of the shark's fin on the flying jib boom.
Get the staysails on and steer south," and he dived below, looking for the cook, I suppose.
I ordered the staysails down and the topsails clewed up and made fast, also the flying-jib and outer jib.
She was all sail; long yards, and plenty of staysails and savealls, a whacking mainsail, and a ringtail at the end of it.
It would not have been advisable to take them off in any case, for they might be turned out at any moment to furl upper topsails or haul down staysails in a sudden freshening of the gale.
She's not going to fetch the ship under sail coming back, and it will be no end of a fag to pull her, while I'm about done with handling those staysails all day already.
There was a banging and rattling overhead as the staysails came down, and a man laughed when the Aldebaran lay rolling in a momentary calm.
In fact, some of the fore and afters had actually got staysails set, with the sheets hauled flat aft, so as to counteract in some measure the dangerous wallowing they were carrying on.
At last the Tuskar was reached, the topsails and lower staysails were set, and the tug let go of us, much to our relief, as the motion at once became easier.
These staysails take their names from the stays on which they run.
It shone on her maintopsail and staysails and lit up the ocean around her.
We had drifted along with the topsail and two staysails drawing from the main, and a sort of trysail set from a preventer-stay leading aft.
The sails are all clewed up and the useless spars sent down: the boats are secured, the movables all double lashed, and the storm-staysails made ready to bend on.
Then, there were the triangular jibs forward and the triangular staysails between the masts, with the quadrangular spanker like an aerial rudder on the lower mizzenmast.
The jibs and staysails are triangular, the spanker a quadrangular {108} fore-and-after.
All the nine staysails would have the loose lower corner made fast to a handy place on deck by a sheet {106} (or rope) and the fore and aft points connected by the stays to the masts, the fore point low and the aft high.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "staysails" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
