Halcyon," close hauled, on a taut bowline, stood her course as near as possible.
The sun was shining brightly full on her white canvas, and even the dark mass of her hull could be made out, as she came careering through the waves, with all sail set to her royals on a taut bowline.
But we have the heels of her on a taut bowline; so why not brace sharp up on the starboard tack, pass between the islands, and then make for Porto Rico?
This point of sailing is synonymous with on a taut bowline and on a wind.
Hence the ship sails on a bowline, or stands on a taut bowline.
A ship sailing close-hauled is "on a taut bowline.
And there were the two frigates, but they might as well have been chasing a star] There she was, the Dancing Bess, holding a taut bowline to the eastward.
By that I knew that the stranger was troubling him There she was, the Dancing Bess, holding a taut bowline to the eastward.
Illustration: There she was, the Dancing Bess, holding a taut bowline to the eastward.
He afterwards said that we sailed well enough with the wind free, but that give him a taut bowline, and he would beat us, if we had all the canvas of the Royal George.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taut bowline" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
