main-top-ga'ntsail

Updated: July 17, 2025

The gale had blown him many miles out of his course, and lost him his main-top-ga'ntsail yards and half of his mizzen-mast; the cold snap had weighted ship and rigging with ice, and now the fog and the uncharted deep-sea river had confused his reckoning utterly.

Theodore Goodridge Roberts - The Harbor Master