Sentence examples for mast down from inspiring English sources

But the respite didn't last: at one the following morning, Dye was awoken by Brockbank shouting at him to get the mast down.

Winds of 45 knots — 50-plus miles per hour — made a bull run at the sails, punching the mast down toward the water.

Clamp your mast down using angled clamping blocks to hold it steady.

Here were cattails and parkland, a lazy river traffic of yachts with their masts down in preparation for the bridges ahead.

The impact was enough to bring the mast crashing down as well as holing the boat.

There is one point when me and my double-act partner are tied to the mast upside down underwater".

Smith refused; if EF was worried about its mast falling down, he said, the team could choose not to sail.

But Sill, skippered by the French ace Roland Jourdain, roared back and was in position to round the first quick mark ahead of the pack when its mast came down.

"I wanted to make sure that if someone dies because EF's mast falls down, I could say that I offered them the technology but they refused to pay for it," Smith said succinctly.

"When a mast falls down you imagine there is going to be some kind of carnage," he said.

British Olympic champions Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson are outside the top 10 in the Star event after being forced to retire in the second race when their mast came down.