Crossword-Solution: MAINSAILS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Two o’clock was past, and still the red mainsails of the skiffs hung motionless, and their images quivered head downwards in the glassy swell, “As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.” It was neap-tide, too, and therefore nothing could be done among the rocks.

Barely was she clear of the land when a string of small flags broke out from her mizzen rigging, and almost as if by magic, the yard arms of all three vessels were alive with men, and royals, top gallants, and mainsails with machine-like precision were dewed up and furled, and each ship, stripped of all but its topsails, rounded to, with its head to the wind.

That fellow walks well, long Tom; but we are too much for him on a bowline; though, if he continue to draw ahead in this manner, it will be night before we can get alongside him.” “Ay, ay, sir,” returned the cockswain; “them cutters carries a press of canvas when they seem to have but little; their gafts are all the same as young booms, and spread a broad head to their mainsails.

Where there was a forest of bare poles are soon hundreds of jibs and mainsails, rosy in the first rays of the rising sun.

Our mizen mast was carried away--both our mainsails split--and we smashed a few spars, and lost some running gear; nothing more serious happened, save the loss of as fine a young fellow as ever trode shoe-leather--a seaman.