Translation for "fore-topsail" to spanish
Translation examples
Then the outer jib was set, followed by the fore topsail.
A continuación desplegaron el foque y la gavia de proa.
Scarborough and Friendship backed their main and fore topsails to halt onward progress and waited until the sail was caught — a risky business — and the slings were reconnected.
El Scarborough y el Friendship modificaron la posición de la vela mayor y de las gavias de proa para detener su avance y esperar a que los del Alexander atraparan la vela —una maniobra muy arriesgada— y se volvieran a sujetar los grátiles.
In the midst of one memorable squall Alexander sustained her only accident of the voyage by carrying away her fore topsail yard in the slings, which meant that the short chains tethering the wooden yard to the mast snapped and the sail, still attached to its yard, flew free.
En el transcurso de un memorable vendaval, el Alexander sufrió el único accidente de la travesía, cuando la verga de la gavia de proa se desprendió de los grátiles, lo cual dio lugar a que se rompieran las cadenas que mantenían sujeta la verga de madera al mástil y a que la vela todavía fijada a su verga se soltara.
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