The spritsail rig was normally used without a boom.

I concealed it beneath a spritsail lying on the forecastle deck.

A hole appeared in the corvette's spritsail and a cheer went up, drowned by the second gun.

The spritsail was hoisted, but put too great a strain on the foremast, which collapsed.

The weather had been moderate when the spritsail left Grimsby but turned squally.

"And the bowsprit and the spritsail yard are drooping into the water."

Interestingly, the boat already featured a spritsail, adding to the mobility of the harbour vessel.

The Spritsail is another rig with a four-sided fore-aft sail.

The spritsail is a form of three or four-sided, fore-aft sail and its rig.

'On the bowsprit, now, there's a yard across, with the spritsail furled upon it.

Whereupon we cast off and hoisted the spritsail.

He made his way through them to the bows, then carefully out along the bowsprit as far as the spritsail yard.

The Old Man bent on a main-topsail and a storm spritsail, just enough to give us steerage way.

One of the Italians took a turn with it over a cleat, while I hastened to lower our big spritsail.

Early in the morning I had noticed a tiny outrigger canoe, with an impossible spritsail, skimming the surface of the lagoon.

That's the spritsail yard, naturally.

The exchange was made, and the salmon boat got up its spritsail and headed down the bay toward the marshes off San Rafael.

The spritsail flapped emptily and the boat righted to an even keel, causing the two men swiftly to change position.

On large sailing ships a spritsail is a square-rigged sail carried on a yard below the bowsprit.

Wherever the spray struck, it turned instantly to frost, and the dipping boom of the spritsail was quickly fringed with icicles.

The spritsail filled with the wind, suddenly, careening the frail open craft till it seemed it would surely capsize.

A rusting nissen hut is all that remains of what was once an boat building and repair industry for the Humber's spritsail barges.

The small spritsail at the bow was still holding, keeping the ship steerable, but the forestay to the mizzenmast thrummed like a hamstring.

Among the artifacts is a 20-foot spritsail skiff built in 1910 in Beaufort, a boat with construction unique to North Carolina.

"Fly the jib boom spritsail, Mister Tufnell.