foretack

Directly the wind is out of it and it begins to shiver he yells, 'Raise tacks and sheets!' when, except that the foretack is held a bit to prevent the foresail from bellying aback, all the remaining ropes that held the ship on her old tack are loosed.

All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways William Charles Henry Wood 1905

-- 'Forward there -- let go the foretack!' he hailed joy fully bareheaded and brisk; 'Square the foreyard, you port-watch!'

The Nigger of the Narcissus 1897

"Brace round your head yards!" he now sung out; and the foretack was boarded while the main-sheet was hauled aft, we on the poop swinging the cross-jack yard at the same time, the captain then calling out to the helmsman sharply, "Luff, you beggar, luff, can't ye!"

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

The foretack being then boarded and the main - sheet hauled aft, she heeled over on the starboard tack with the wind well on her starboard beam, heading towards the South Foreland, which she rounded soon after.

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

"Raise tacks and sheets!" and the foretack and main-sheet were cast off with the weather main-brace hauled taut.

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

"Raise tacks and sheets!" cried Captain Gillespie, when the foretack and main-sheets were cast off just as his next command came -- "Main-sail haul!"

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

The latter caused the brig to ware short round on her heel, and boarded his foretack in chase, hauling up into the passage as soon as he could again round the reef.

Jack Tier; Or, the Florida Reef 1848

Then came a clap like thunder -- the foretack had parted, and the block striking a seaman had carried him overboard.

The Three Lieutenants William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

The latter caused the brig to ware short round on her heel, and boarded his foretack in chase, hauling up into the passage as soon as he could again round the reef.

Jack Tier James Fenimore Cooper 1820

By this time the strange sail was on our quarter, we shortened sail, while he, finding that his manoeuvre of crossing our bows had been foiled by our bearing up also, got the foretack on board again, and set his topgallant sails, all very cleverly.

Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812