Sentence examples for off the mast from inspiring English sources

A hurricane has shredded the sails, snapped off the mast, and snatched away the rudder.

After the storm in 1976 that tore off the mast, the Cape Verde government rebuilt it and gave it to the United States as a gift.

His first attempt at the race ended in failure in 2004 when the boom broke off the mast and punctured the deck.

An Atlantic storm that ripped off the mast of a boat named Antje in 1842 became known as Antje's hurricane.

You can clamp a piece of wood to the mast so that your point is exactly half on and half off the mast.

In time, they will largely be obscured by the curves of the trusswork cable-stayed canopy, which will cantilever off the masts in two gentle arcs, front and back.

"We had to take the instruments off the top of the mast to get under the bridge," Mr. Limoggio said later.

He added: "The other day we had 50-odd knots but I can't tell you an exact number because at the height of the crescendo we lost our wind gear off the top of the mast.

Put the point of your compass in the center of the circle, and open up the compass until the pencil point just touches the corner of the box (i.e., the point where the line goes off the edge of the mast).

This broke off the remaining mast and caused the ship to heel over onto her side.

After we muscled the 1,800-square-foot 1,800-square-foot 1,800-square-foote boat was turned to catch the air, the engine was cut, and USA 76 took off.