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Sentence Examples For daysailing, we recommend the soft cloth with a vision window in the jib and perhaps reef points in the main. The main mast is 18 feet, 4 inches unstayed and the jib mast is 10 feet, 4 inches unstayed. Sunday, 20 May 2007 I worked in the cargohold tidying up, shifting cargo, and pulling out the old staysail to use as a jib. We just woke up to take down our large jib and hoisted a smaller staysail in its place. Self-tacking jibs and staysails work well with furling systems and with jib booms. We opened our jib a bit and later in the evening unfurled a bit of the storm jib too and reached 4 knots. We replaced the tiny storm jib and this immediately gave us enough power to make better progress. Once you have set the storm jib and storm trysail, you will need to find your boat's best angle of attack. For that reason, a proper storm jib should be considered an essential part of any yacht's safety gear. The first big blow was unpleasant and I had to reduce sail to my smallest storm jib and trysail. The coachroof design optimizes the jib sheeting angles, and has a jib inhauler system for perfect light airs trim. Snubbing winches can be fitted on the coachroof for the jib sheets as an extra if required. Since the jib halyard attaches to the same place as the forestay, the load is pretty well transferred. Compared to the flying jib and forestaysail, the Genoa has a shorter leading edge and backs the Phoresail. The boat across the street from me has had its roller furling jib come loose and it's flapping so loudly that you can hear it in the house. I have seen others opt for a cutter-type arrangement leaving the small jib and adding a genoa. Though there were as many misses as hits, the main sail, jib, and one other were burning. With smooth proficiency, the trimmers backed the jib, and the mainsail was eased, swinging the bow around. The crane jib came to rest on the pontoon narrowly missing a civilian shipwright working beside Young Endeavour. It involves the employment of a second lift cylinder on the jib or secondary boom. Show More Sentences At least we know the roller-furled jib works, though overall it isn't exactly a great advert for Sunfast. The immediate area around the crane is still cordoned off for safety reasons, due to the risk of parts of the broken jib falling. The 20-foot placing jib both rotates and articulates, allowing access to the pump discharge around corners and through windows. A few seagulls circled, squawked at Joe, and two pigeons on the crane's jib watched him intently. In yesterday's windy conditions, the front jib of the crane dangled at the former gasometer site, the damaged part swaying towards buildings. Finally, after setting down a bundle of rebar, the crane operator did not raise the jib line all the way back to the top. In its ordinary sense it conveys to us an item of plant with a projecting boom or jib over which are braced lifting wires and pulleys. The driver, who left the scene after the accident, jumped from the cab just seconds before the jib of the crane plunged down onto the seashore. Overhead power cables broke the fall of the crane as the jib of the machine tore a gaping hole in the roof of the single storey premises. With three telescopic boom sections and an articulating jib, sections of pump hose are added as needed to accommodate the distance to placement. In that post I said that I managed to delete the photo of the JCB with the jib extended. The jib or projecting arm of a crane probably derives from gibbet, and gibe and gybe are often written jibe. Reservations have to be made on an answer phone and when and only when they like the cut of your jib will they return your call confirming entry! I have no idea what he is talking about, but dammit, I like the cut of his jib. He is reputedly a fan of Western films and, going by the cut of his jib, country-and-western music. He liked the cut of my jib, and I also went out of my way to prove myself as an intrepid reporter. But, although I jib slightly at the supernatural Skellig's curative powers and the sentimental conclusion, the story has legs as well as wings. So he would just throw himself into his collar and it would never occur to him to jib or give up. One may jib, like George Orwell, at Greene's belief that a brutally stupid gangster is capable of intellectual subtlety. That is why we jib slightly the description of this case as a negligent misstatement case. Show More Sentences Despite the weather, the ship's two carpenters were busy and by the 26th they were able to replace the jib boom. She was still scarred after her encounters with icebergs so proper repairs to her jury-rigged jib boom were a top priority. That pressure also flows to the slave cylinder to provide additional lifting force to the jib boom. The 7-ton crane can handle 600 pounds at full extension of the jib boom at 82 feet, or 2500 pounds at 60 feet. I went forward and lowered the staysail so that it did not blanket the wind from the small, Yankee jib. Before we left Cape Town we bent on the storm mainsail and set a Yankee jib in the groove of the furling gear. This manoeuvre caused the jib sails to be blown out and with a lurch she went on her beam ends again with the main and mizzen yards under water. I told him not to touch the main, and to let go the port jib sheet and haul it in starboard side. If the jib is up and overtrimmed, it can easily backwind the main and throw the boat off balance. She ran on a 700-horsepower steam engine and had four jury masts on which four trysails and a jib could be set for emergencies. Orders were then given to set the jib and maintopmast staysail, and the former was set but the latter could not be, as the halyards were foul aloft. We sail with the main sail and a jib sail, about 135 degrees off the wind. He is not the first person to be sacked for missing targets and to walk out with a fat cheque, but what the bankers really disliked was the cut of his jib. Peter holds the jib aback until our bow swings across the wind. The speed makes up for the energy difference between this method and dropping a heavy weight from a crawler crane's jib, and there is no flying debris. It's easy to see why the Grammy guardians liked the cut of her jib. By 1980, the mainsail roach had been increased, a full-length top batten added to the mainsail and the jib size increased slightly for a new sail area of 87 square feet. When furled, the square sails vanished inside the booms, although the 15 fore-and-aft sails were handled like any modern sail-boat's roller-furling jib. Hovering over the jib boom you see two large anchors lying on deck. I have seen that girl on the deck, and I like the cut of her jib. I like the way she walks. Her independence suits me. Show More Sentences Trim the leech of the jib parallel to the main by watching the slot between the mainsail and the jib. The tower is mounted on a slewing platform, which also carries the power plant and the counterweights, while the jib is supported and luffed by fixed pendant ropes. Though a well preserved man of no little stamina, if a trifle prone to baldness, there was something spurious in the cut of his jib that suggested a jail delivery. The best thing about speed-dating is, if you don't like the cut of the jib of the first date you hope for something completely different the next time the bell rings. Examples from Classical Literature This was soon done and, under bare poles, the storm jib now the only sail upon her, the paramatta tore through the water. Baby jib top-sails had been sent down before the rounding, and spinnaker poles were now ready for the balloon sail. The spray was dashing over her bows, and her jib was wet several feet above the boltrope. She carries a fore-and-aft main-sail, gaff-topsail, stay-foresail, and jib. In old times the boats simply carried mainsail, foresail, and forestaysail and jib. A reef had been shaken out of the trysails, and the fore-topsail and jib were set. I'll take the two boys for'ard, an' you ease her up a bit so we can furl the jib. Papa, on this, ordered the gaff topsail to be taken in, and the jib shifted. The mainsail was cast loose, jib and staysail ready, and the gaff topsail would not take many minutes to run up in its place. But there was a je ne sais quoi in the whole cut of your jib as familiar to me as rolls and coffee. Keep the topsails loose and the jib ready for setting, I may want the sails in a hurry. Wind was fair, or ought to be, but 'twas blowin' hard and so thick you couldn't hardly see the jib boom. The seaman who executed the order was struck while on the jib boom by a shell or solid shot and disembowelled. The end of the jib boom was the last to disappear beneath the waters, and the career of the famous cruiser was ended forever. We kept the foresail and the jib set, and jogged on, doubling amid the ice. Marston had had the lugsail and jib made in England by a famous yacht-chandler, and the boat was fast. The mainsail was set to a chorus like the crying of sea fowl and the foresail and jib. I ordered the jib and mainsail to be taken in, and the helm to be put down. He took in royals and topgallant sails, furled the courses, trysail and jib, and double-reefed the topsails. At the end of that mile Jonadab's craft's jib boom was just astern of Tobias's rudder. Show More Sentences Either clincher or carvel-built, no jib-stay, the jib hoisting and hanging by the halliards alone. The lugger was found to be decked and clinker-built with a running bowsprit on which she set a jib. An hour went by, and as the wind was still rising, the flying jib was taken in. But his sheets and halyards had been so shot away that not a sail could be set, except the flying jib. Man fore-clew-garnets, flying jib down haul, topgallant sheets, and gaff-topsail gear. The interior of the flying jib varied from a dreary lodge to a summer home, according to the nature of the occupants. I sailed comfortably on under the jib and forestaysail, which I now set. If we can h'ist the jib we can get some steerage way on her, maybe. An' see that big one with a patch in her foresail an' a new jib? Jentham, he come 'ere to patter the calo jib and drink with us. As quietly as was possible, I clewed up the topsails, lowered the flying jib and staysail, backed the jib over, and flattened the mainsail. Everything was in readiness to give the dazzler the jib, and go. The topsail and jib were spread, and the sloop glided out of the estuary. The puro beng is a fino mush, if you will have the kalo jib! The one large lugsail, too, and little jib form a most unhandy rig. Her mother was inviting Mr. Bayard to call on them at the flying jib. The White Wings was a sloop yacht with club and jib topsails. Then the Polly was turned toward the shore and the jib was lowered. Campeador's boat, under jib and spritsail, was beating up the coast. Man the jib and staysail downhauls, let go the halliards, haul down. Show More Sentences For instance, there is the jib halyard and the foresail halyard. At the corner of the gloomy passage a rigged jib boom with a dolphin-striker ending in an arrow-head stuck out of the night close to a cast iron lamp-post. Better reef the jib and mainsail too, while you're about it. Find more words! 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