Significados de mainsheet en inglés

Come, Walter, haul in the mainsheet, and come up to the wind.

The rest of you tail aft to the mainsheet!

Tell him to slack off the mainsheet, and before you know it, he'd drop the peak.

An hour later the mainsheet was hanging in the water and the boat drifted with the tide.

Stand by, to haul in the mainsheet.

Round-in upon the starboard braces-easeoff your mainsheet, slack it away and let the boom go well out.

We will watch for a 'smooth,' and directly it comes, you and François must round-in upon the mainsheet.

While the two men struggled with the mainsheet, the big boom and the sail above it lurched madly over.

This time the mainsheet parted.

Come in mainsheet two blocks!

A broken mainsheet jammer block on Union Chandlery could have thwarted Mark Mansfield's assault on the 1720 East Coast crown on Saturday.

The bark went merrily on, leaping over the waves, with the old mariner at her helm, and his dumb servant by the mainsheet.

Tom hauled in the yards and yards of mainsheet, and we resumed our more usual motion of beating hard into an oncoming sea.

I know these waters like a book, I've sailed them ever since I was old enough to tell a tiller from a mainsheet.

The breeze being favourable, Ben soon stepped the mast and hoisted the sail, when he came aft with the mainsheet, and told Dick to steer.

But while sailing south down the New Zealand coastline in rough conditions, a loose mainsheet caused the boom to "unexpectedly" swing and knock Arne overboard.