mainsail in English

noun
1
the principal sail of a ship, especially the lowest sail on the mainmast in a square-rigged vessel.
Hornblower watched as both ships backed the mainsails , turned the helm hard over, and took up the prescribed position.

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1. Battens are the primary structure of a mainsail

2. Catalina 36 Std Fully Battened Mainsail $ 1,595.00

3. Old wooden mast with Crosspieces, backstays,mainsail ,staysail

4. Mast track extension and pre-feeder for mainsail furling

5. It will seriously unbalance your driver as the mainsail get Backwinded

6. 12 A small sloop with a mainsail, jib, and keel but no bowsprit.

7. Generally, wait until the mainsail starts showing signs of Backwinding and then start easing the sail

8. 15 Yet somehow one hand remained on the wheel and the other clasped the mainsail winch.

9. Backstay flicker - gives the mainsail space to move This product is designed for use on fractional rigs only

10. However the constant swell rolls Mirador 20 degrees to port causing the mainsail to Backwind and the headsail to deflate

11. Brigantine definition is - a 2-masted sailing ship that is square-rigged except for a fore-and-aft mainsail.

12. Battened mainsail (Classic), you normally keep the top batten parallel to the boom…and you do this with the boom vang

13. Brigantine definition, a two-masted sailing vessel, square-rigged on the foremast and having a fore-and-aft mainsail with square upper sails

14. And they lowered its gear, the mainsail or rigging, and strained to keep the ship headed into the wind to weather the storm.

15. Backwind definition is - a wind blowing onto the wrong side of a sail; especially : one directed upon a mainsail by a wrongly trimmed jib

16. This is a maneuver that involves pointing the boat into the wind and locking the helm in place with the mainsail up and the headsail Backwinded

17. Generally speaking, the closer in you can trim the headsail (without Backwinding the mainsail), the higher into the wind the sailboat can point and maintain its speed

18. The jib is Backwinded and attempts to turn the boat away from the wind, while the mainsail and rudder attempt to turn the boat into the wind

19. This fine control of the sail without need for the crew to leave the deck, is achieved by Brailing up.Rather than lowering the mainsail, it is gathered up against its own luff and head by means of lines called brails.This technique is an effective way of stowing the mainsail and gives fine control over the power obtained from the sail.

20. brigantine (plural Brigantines) (nautical) a two - masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast, but fore-and-aft-rigged mainsail with a square-rig above it on the mainmast.

21. In-mast Furling: In complete contrast to fully-Battened mainsails with large amounts of roach, there is the in-mast furling mainsail, which is becoming increasingly popular because of the convenience it offers

22. ‘Your mainsail changes color if you are being blanketed or Backwinded by a competitor.’ ‘One thing I noticed is that to backwind the main, you have to be back on the tramp.’ noun

23. ‘Dropping down Abaft the bridge, the first thing to come into view was the funnel.’ ‘When a mainsail was set up in the correct place Abaft the genoa, the strain on the headsail sheet was observed to …

24. An improved lift creating sail and sail system where a substantially rectangular mainsail (2) made up of panels forms an aerodynamically efficient airfoil that is supported at approximately its center on a pivot so that is has three degrees of freedom.

25. When sailing close-hauled trim in the jib so you have about 1.5 inches of belly, then bring her as close to the wind as she will go and trim in the mainsail until it is no longer Backwinded by the jib

26. Wire Bobstays, new 2020; Mooring eye with mooring pendant at base of Bobstays; Harken Batten Traveler System for mainsail; Harken MKIV Jib Reefing System; Intermediate upper shrouds; Solid SS chainplates, thru-bolted to integral hull keels, inspected with replacement of deficient fasteners in 2016

27. ‘The Swan 36 comes with a fully Battened mainsail and roller furling genoa as standard equipment.’ ‘The big dogs are Battened down in the kennel and the only means of air are some holes big enough for my hands to go through.’ ‘Shopkeepers Battened their steel doors and people rushed for home.’

28. ‘Her Bowsprit carries two foresails, and her large mainsail is gaff rigged, with an upside-down triangle of topsail to fill the gap at the masthead.’ ‘Next we had to set the course sail, the top sail of the forward mast, then the foresails out over the Bowsprit.’ ‘She had swum to the Bowsprit …