mainsail

How to use mainsail in a sentence

• What they saw was the yacht Eagle, not far from the bluff, under full mainsail, standing out of the cove.

  The Rival Campers | Ruel Perley Smith

• Moreover, although she carried an enormous club-topsail and a mainsail of big area, she heeled over the least of any of the boats.

  The Rival Campers | Ruel Perley Smith

• Then he proceeded to untie the stops in the mainsail, and was thus engaged when a voice hailed him from the shore.

  The Rival Campers | Ruel Perley Smith

• The size of the jib is also influenced by the fact that it has to balance the equally enormous mainsail.

  Yachting Vol. 2 | Various.

• In reefing the mainsail is accessible, and the absence of the long boom of the cat-boat is readily appreciated.

  Yachting Vol. 2 | Various.