Sentence examples for forestay from inspiring English sources

And in the last miles, the boat lost a forestay, a rigging wire which helps support the mast.

The masts and forestays support all the sails.

On the bridge the captain gives the order and electric motors whir into life rotating the forestays of each mast around which a sail is wound while at the same time a small truck drags the aft end of the sail back along the hydraulic booms.