spritsails

I had seen the boat-steerers and hunters set their spritsails many times, yet this was my first attempt.

Chapter 26 2010

Maritime paintings of the seventeenth century often show spritsails braced that way, at angles that seem improbable to modern sailors, but may well have been correct.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

Maritime paintings of the seventeenth century often show spritsails braced that way, at angles that seem improbable to modern sailors, but may well have been correct.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

Pass the soused hog's face and set the spritsails, or whatever.

the venitius command 2005

There were studdingsails and skyscrapers, staysails, royals, spritsails and topsails, a cloud of canvas that drove the warship westward.

Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

By great luck “there were but the bowsprit, the spritsails, and the figure of the charming countess which were broken to pieces.

Rochambeau and the French in America. I. From Unpublished Documents. II 1916

The hunters have experimented and practised with their rifles and shotguns till they are satisfied, and the boat-pullers and steerers have made their spritsails, bound the oars and rowlocks in leather and sennit so that they will make no noise when creeping on the seals, and put their boats in apple-pie order -- to use Leach's homely phrase.

Chapter 11 1904

I had seen the boat-steerers and hunters set their spritsails many times, yet this was my first attempt.

Chapter 26 1904

The hunters have experimented and practised with their rifles and shotguns till they are satisfied, and the boat-pullers and steerers have made their spritsails, bound the oars and rowlocks in leather and sennit so that they will make no noise when creeping on the seals, and put their boats in apple-pie order -- to use Leach's homely phrase.

The Sea Wolf Jack London 1896

I had seen the boat-steerers and hunters set their spritsails many times, yet this was my first attempt.

The Sea Wolf Jack London 1896