foretopmast

Fastening one end of a heavy tackle to the windlass, and with the other end fast to the butt of the foretopmast, I began to heave.

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Captain Doane climbed even higher, seating himself on the stump of the foremast with legs a-straddle of the butt of the foretopmast.

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The maintopmast was over thirty feet in length, the foretopmast nearly thirty, and it was of these that

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At 8.30 a.m. on the 13th Stenhouse set the foresail and foretopmast staysail, and the

South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006

Her foretopmast was bent at an unnatural angle and there were scars on her painted flank.

Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

Steel whipped in an arc, slashing among tarred line, and the foretopmast jerked, angled brokenly for-ward.

Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989

Cornwallis followed, with all the time honoured ceremonial of guard of honour and band and sideboys, while his flag was hauled down from the foretopmast head.

Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

"Land on the lee bow!" yelled Orrock from the foretopmast-head.

Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

To take the pull off the tops, the shrouds are continued round to the mast as "futtock" shrouds, on the same principle as the foretopmast-stay finds its continuation in the bobstay.

Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 Various

Thus the forestay comes from the foremast-head to the bows; the foretopmast-stay from the foretopmast-head to the bowsprit-head; the foretopgallant-stay from the foretopgallant-rigging to the jibboom-head; and the foreroyal-stay from the top of the royal mast to the end of the flying-jibboom.

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