Sails

In Miami, Florida, a group of former students who raced sailboats at the University of Miami established a nonprofit known as Sails for Sustenance, which aims to help Haiti's coastal fishermen by giving them real sails to replace the rice sacks and charcoal bags many typically use.

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The Sails are the _Main-sail_, 8. the _Trinket_, or _Fore-sail_, 9. the _Misen-sail_ or _Poop-sail_, 10.

The Orbis Pictus Johann Amos Comenius 1631

Christmas, happy Christmas! let us pass the flowing bowl, Fill your glasses all, and let's make "Sails" a wee bit full.

The South Pole~ Northward 2009

Fill your glasses all, and let's make "Sails" a wee bit full.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2 Roald Amundsen 1900

Fill your glasses all, and let's make "Sails" a wee bit full.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 2 Roald Amundsen 1900

Southern Sea for forty days more or less, without seeing land, at the end of that time, the islands of Velas [ "Sails"], otherwise called the

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 06 of 55 1583-1588 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Emma Helen Blair 1884

"I want you to go in the chains with the lead," said the other, turning round and speaking confidentially to old "Sails," as Adams was generally termed by his intimates amongst the crew.

Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea William Heysham Overend 1874

I found him out, and, looking into his sunburnt face, covered with hair, and his little eyes drawn up into the smallest passages for light, - like a man who had peered into hundreds of northeasters, - there was old "Sails" of the Alert, clothed in all the honors of boatswain's-mate.

Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative 1869

This was the best consolation "Sails" had to offer, but it did not seem to be just the thing the carpenter wanted; for, during several days, he was very much dejected, and bore with difficulty the jokes of the sailors, and with still more difficulty their attempts at advice and consolation, of most of which the sailmaker's was a good specimen.

Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative 1869

"Sails" (the sailmaker) tried to comfort him, and told him he was a bloody fool to give up his grub for any woman's daughter, and reminded him that he had told him a dozen times that he'd never see or hear from his wife again.

Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative 1869