working-jib

Updated: May 21, 2025

We accordingly shook both reefs out of the mainsail, and got the foresail and working-jib set, with which canvas we rushed along in true racing style, our lee-rail well buried, and the craft taking just enough weather-helm to allow of her being steered to a hair's-breadth.

Harry Collingwood - Under the Meteor Flag: Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War