topsail的示例

• Both our topsails gave way by the force of the gale.

• They climbed the mast to free the topsails.

• Topsails would be a nuisance and a danger for a crew of two.

• She was topsail schooner-rigged for auxiliary sail power.

• She was rigged as a barkentine with double topsail yards; standing rigging was galvanized charcoal-iron wire.

• Oddly, the sprit rigged mainsail was often accompanied by a jib and a topsail.

• To conserve fuel (coal) she was also originally rigged as a topsail schooner.

• A jack-yard topsail may also have the aforementioned vertical yard, although this makes for a very large topsail.

• The lowest square sail was the course, the next sail up the mast was called the topsail, the next the topgallant sail.

• Some also carry a topsail above the uppermost or only spanker, called the gaff sail.

• The rigging consisted of a single mast with a square mainsail and a topsail.