foresail in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

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foresail in the PONS Dictionary

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foresail [ˈfɔ:r·seɪl] N NAUT

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The mainsheet was immediately slackened and the foresail released, which slowed the yacht's speed to 1.5 knots around three minutes after the skipper fell overboard.
www.sail-world.com
Often a watersail will be improvised from an unused foresail.
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Then, to make matters even worse, if that were possible, the foresail jibed, bursting the rigging.
www.lportepilot.ca
The foresail is mounted on a bowsprit.
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This boat follows the general layout for most single-mast sailing yachts, having a mainsail and a foresail, with the cockpit at the back of the boat.
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The foremast was rolled over, destroying the foresail.
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She carries a mainsail, a very large foresail genoa, and a large spinnaker for running and reaching.
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All the competitors followed suit with the foresail change for the last race of the day, in challenging gusty conditions.
afloat.ie
In that year he was said to be conducting trials with a full-bellied foresail.
www.portsmouth.co.uk
Fractional rigs are where the height of the foresail only comes up to a fraction of the height of the mainsail.
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