Sentences with phrase «of halyards»
The sound of halyards whipping in the wind as sailboats point their bows toward home.
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On one particular voyage she was a day out of Sourabaya, Java enroute to San Francisco with a cargo of copra when her sails, gaff and halyards were carried away in a heavy squall.
Sailors use a different line — smoother, white with color strands to tell the crew what's the purpose of the line (halyard, sheet, etc).