aftersail

Updated: January 24, 2026

As this, however, would be nearly all aftersail, the captain determined to make an effort to overhaul the buntlines and leachlines of the foresail, at the same time that men were sent aloft after the ends of the halyards. He also thought it possible to set a fore-topmast stay-sail flying. No one was deceived in this matter.

James Fenimore Cooper - Homeward Bound : or, the Chase