double-reefed

We must have been caught nearly at the centre of this circular storm, and Wolf Larsen ran out of it and to the southward, first under a double-reefed jib, and finally under bare poles.

Chapter 18 2010

He's the skipper that lies three days under double-reefed topsails waiting for a gale that doesn't come.

Chapter 19 2010

The Jessie swung off under her full staysail, then the foresail, double-reefed, was run up.

Chapter 3 2010

A sailboat flies by, mainsail double-reefed, foam flecking the rails, and Fred doubles over as the bad thing whips into his mind.

The 6th Target Patterson, James, 1947- 2007

We hove to under double-reefed mainsail and our little jigger, and waited for the gale to blow itself out.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

I ordered the double-reefed mainsail to be set in the hope that we might claw off, and this attempt increased the strain upon the boat.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

The weather conditions did not improve, and on the fifth day out the gale was so fierce that we were compelled to take in the double-reefed mainsail and hoist our small jib instead.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

He painted it from description, but of course, as you very sensibly say, all was snug below and she carried storm sails and double-reefed topsails, for it was blowing a cyclone from the sou'east.

Beyond the City Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1982

No; nor, indeed, did we learn his name until after the topsails had been double-reefed and hoisted again and the ship hove-to with her maintopsail to the mast -- which was accomplished in less time, I believe, than was ever known before, the operation not taking more than three minutes from first to last!

Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene

Although, at the time, so strong a gale was blowing landward that a brig in the remote offing lay to under a double-reefed trysail, and constantly plunged her whole hull out of sight, still there was here nothing like

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