foresail

“Now back your foresail and give her a full!” screamed the owner of the Wasp.

The foresail was ripped down the middle, and the ship listed badly to starboard.

The crew scramble between the hulls on trampoline nets to adjust the huge hollow mainsail, which looks more like an aircraft wing, and the smaller foresail.

Each crew member had his job: raising and lowering the stabilizing fins, known as dagger boards, on each pontoon; adjusting the fixed wing; or unfurling the billowing foresail, called a gennaker.

Another and another followed; but, no longer directed across the lugger's bows, they were evidently aimed directly at her; and one of them passed through the foresail, though without doing any farther damage.