1 There is little mystery in getting a fore - and - aft vessel under way.
2 Lightness and concentrated power are the great qualities of fore - and - aft rig.
3 The plow looks like a fore - and - aft brace of a Hudson river steamer, inverted.
4 They had stingers fore - and - aft and could get you coming or going.
5 In a slightly modified form the same system was applied to the fore - and - aft balance.
6 Two large ships at anchor; or were they moored fore - and - aft ?
7 Symmetry is curiously vegetable-like, suggesting vegetable's essentially up-and-down structure rather than animal's fore - and - aft structure.
8 I don't know how he came to be in command of a fore - and - aft schooner.
9 The gaff of its fore - and - aft sail flew no flag.
10 The Lady Nelson, having split her fore - and - aft mainsail, bore up for Twofold Bay to refit.
11 The square-rigged ship, or bark, has been very largely replaced by the fore - and - aft , or schooner-rigged vessel.
12 The fore - and - aft rig would make it simpler to spread some sail when they had enough sea-room.
13 A command from the tug and mooring beams glowed at the fore - and - aft towers to immobilize the Raven.
14 So close-hauled now that they would appear to be almost fore - and - aft to any observer on the land.
15 Deep-space transports and utilities rode high, immobilized by fore - and - aft mag-beams at the pinnacles of two-hundred-meter mooring towers.
16 After breakfast we took a drosky, or whatever these fore - and - aft -seated vehicles are called, and set out for
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