| In rounding Flamborough Head the boat shipped a sea and washed the mizzen and boom away, and filled the coble on deck. |
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| 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. |
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| We can carry the spinnaker in combination with the mizzen staysail or we can carry either alone. |
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| Now the yards of the mizzen mast are braced around and the sheets of the staysails are eased. |
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| It was square-rigged on its foremasts and mainmasts, but used a lateen sail on the mizzen to help in tacking. |
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| She was given a tall mizzen mast, with a large gaff sail, well forward of the wheel and a smaller spritsail. |
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| Bellerophon's main topmast had been shot away and her mizzen topmast was in a precarious state. |
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| Going to the mizzen boom he undid the badly fastened ties, raised the sail and lowered it, flaking it neatly as it came down. |
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| In the afternoon set the fore and main topgallant sails. 1pm set the mizzen topgallant sail and spanker. |
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| Yawl, two-masted sailboat, usually rigged with one or more jibsails, a mainsail, and a mizzen. |
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| The large windvanes of auxiliary rudder systems makes them awkward to operate on ketch or yawl rigged boats when the mizzen is in use. |
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| Now, try imagining how it felt to be up the mizzen when that fatal shot rang out. |
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| Captain Reynolds, who is known as Chip, barked orders about setting the rudder and trimming the topsails and mizzen. |
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| On smaller yachts, the stay is led through a block at the mizzen mast top down to the deck, where the length can be adjusted. |
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| Not only that but they are seldom used anyway because on typical trade wind courses the mizzen contributes more weather helm than drive. |
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| A mizzen staysail may well be a trouble-free and effective sail, but second masts cost money and increase the weight aloft. |
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| The small mizzen sail, still seen on many motor fishing boats, facilitates many evolutions. |
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| Sure, you need to be able to tell the contemporary equivalent of a fore topgallant from a mizzen topsail, but that's what all those seminars and lectures are for. |
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| During the reign of Henry the Eighth, ships with two and three masts carried main and top sails, lateen mizzen sails and spritsails set under the bowsprit. |
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| Having all but the mizzen sail reefed, he bade Lasky a goodnight. |
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| We dropped everything except the main and mizzen, tried in vain to get some speed, then gave up and sheeted them in tight and turned on the engine. |
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| It has a white steel hull, a flush deck with a pilothouse forward of the main mast, a wide bridge and an exhaust funnel between the main and mizzen masts. |
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| Sailors speak of mizzen masts because the word for mast in Arab is mazzan. |
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| The two main masts are aline amidships, while the two mizzen masts are astern and placed in line with the rudder post. |
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| In both a ketch and a yawl, the foremost mast is tallest, and thus the main mast, while the rear mast is shorter, and called the mizzen mast. |
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| They take up a quite alot of space on the transom owing to their size and turning circle, so permanent backstays, mizzen masts and davits can easily get in the way. |
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| On a broad reach, with two fore-sails, the main-sail and the mizzen aloft, Fleur de Passion oscillates between 6 and 7 knots all afternoon and, at some points, even reaches 8 knots. |
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| In spite of losing his mast before the Azores, Philippe continued under jury rig and mizzen and ended up only twelve hours behind Jean-Luc, who grabbed second place from him. |
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| It is time to steer into the wind and haul the dinghy aboard, to hoist two sails, fore and mizzen, and to head South-East, towards the CapeCouronne light-house, to the West of Marseille. |
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| Most arguments for a second mast rest on other, unconnected factors: a mizzen mast provides a good site for antennas and radar and, most important of all, two masts look better in photographs! |
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| The main and mizzen masts were stripped of sails and rigging. |
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