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Most ship owners considered skysails more ornamental than useful.
The Portsmouth-built Noonday had only one skysail, on her mainmast.
On deck the men were sheeting home the skysails.
Her upper spars were on the same scale, tapering away through topmast, topgallant-mast, royal and skysail-masts, until they fined away into slender wands.
But the skysails "stayed put" and indeed every bit of rag was doing noble duty.
A dozen hands were aloft furling the skysails and royals.
The part of the topgallantmast above the topgallant-rigging is called the royal-mast or royal-pole, and the continuation above the royal-rigging, if any, is the skysail-pole.
But we now let out our skysails and came down on her rapidly.
We had run into the southeast trade and were reaching along to the southward under skysails.
She was two thousand tons, clipper, and with skysails.
A sliding shutter overhead was thrown back, when on the wind, to allow the helmsman a sight of the weather cloth of the mizzen skysail.
Thus, the lowest sail is the course, the next is the topsail, the next the topgallantsail, the next the royal and the highest of all is the skysail.
A slight dew began to settle as the watch wore on and presently a sound aloft of the flapping of a skysail started us to attention.
They deemed the breaking of that slender, elevated, unbraced mast the natural result of the order which the commander gave to set the skysail, going as the vessel then was.
In all of the lore of cutting canvas for sails, and we made a set of skysails on the voyage, the mate was a past master.
For the next three days we went along merrily to the northward, the beginning of the southeast trade behind us, and our skysails drawing full overhead.
