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... . This was done to protect the sail, spar and mast from damage in strong winds. Depending on how many reefs were hauled in, a sail was said to be reefed, double-reefed or close reefed. An illustration of reefs is to be found in William Falconer’s Dictionary of the Marine. Google Prepared by: Turnbull ...


... land of Terra del Fuego, and arriving into the degree of Latitude and Longitude we are now in and without ever being brought once under our close reefe'd Topsails since we left Strait La Maire a circumstance that perhaps never happen'd before to any Ship in those seas so much dreaded for hard gales ...


... M. Lat 46° 9' 9° 52' Liz d N 36° E 96 leagues Fresh gales all these 24 Hours. At ½ past 1 pm spoke with His Majestys Ship Guadeloupe. at 6 am close Reefed the Topsails and got down topg t Top Yards. Cultural Artefacts in South Seas Companion: reef (nautical term) | topsails | topyards Previous Page ...


... d N 291/2° E Dist. 138 leagues First part Little wind and hazey with rain, remainder Strong gales with hard squalls which brought us under our close reefed top sails and obliged us to strike topgallant yards. At 8 AM wore ship and stood to the Southward. Cultural Artefacts in South Seas Companion: reef ...


... in one or more of the reefs, which is either performed by lines, points, or knittles. Thus the top-sails are always, and the courses generally, reefed with points, which are flat braided pieces of cordage, whose lengths are nearly double the circumference of the yard. These being inserted in the eyelet ...


... vessels, the sail employed for this purpose is called the square-sail, (voile de fortune, Fr.) In large ships, it is either the foresail, at large, reefed, or with its goose-wings extended, according to the degree of the tempest; or it is the fore-top-sail close reefed, and lowered on the cap: which ...


... overboard: the gale continued with nearly equal violence all the rest of the day, and all night, so that we were obliged to lie to under a double-reefed main sail; but in the morning, it being more moderate, and veering from N.W. to S. by W. we made sail again, and stood to the westward. We were now ...


... , so as to answer the purposes for which they are intended; and that the sails are properly fitted to their yards and stays, and well furled or reefed when occasion requires. It is likewise his office to summon the crew to their duty; to assist with his mates in the necessary business of the ship; and ...


... saw also many of these. In the evening of Monday the 27th, which was very dark, as we were standing to the westward under our courses, and a close reefed top-sail, the wind, in a hard squall, suddenly shifted, and took the vessel right ahead; the violent jerk with which the sails were instantly thrown ...


... and a half from the shore, in which situation we had two and twenty fathom water. At ten, it began to blow and rain, which brought us under double reefed topsails; at twelve, we tacked and stood to the westward till seven the next morning, when we tacked and stood again to the N.E. being about a mile ...