Gybed

“The yacht gybed, and James went overboard, then I did.” ❋ Woods, Stuart (2001)

The wind got behind the mainsail, and the yacht gybed. ❋ Woods, Stuart (2001)

“Sir Bernard seemed to think I might have purposely gybed the yacht; is that what you think?” ❋ Woods, Stuart (2001)

Princess gybed neatly enough; the big lugsails flapped thunderously for a moment and then as the sheets were eased off she lay over close hauled on the other tack. ❋ Forester, C. S. (1967)

Presently the two crackling sails gybed over with a thud, and the ❋ Max Rittenberg (N/A)

And th 'end was the larboard halyards broke, an' the mare gybed, an 'to Torrington I went before the wind, wi' an unseemly bloody nose. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

A squall came down, the sail gybed quickly, and the boom slewed over with a jerk, just grazing the top of my head. ❋ Stephen Sydney Reynolds (1900)

Many of his days have been passed since then in explaining how the thing happened; of these explanations it will be sufficient to say that they were all different, and none satisfactory: and the gross fact remains that the main boom gybed, carried away the tackle, broke the mainmast some three feet above the deck and whipped it over-board. ❋ Unknown (1898)

Fortunately, the jib only gybed, while the fore-topsail slatted a bit against the mast; and all the other sails remaining full and drawing, a slight shift of the helm sufficed to put the ship on her proper course. ❋ Unknown (1887)

The skipper had gybed the boat under the lee of Valcour's; but the wind was too fresh where he was now to repeat the manoeuvre. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)

Donald kept her moving very lively, and when she had made her two tacks, she had weathered the buoy, and, rounding it, she gybed so near the ledge that the commodore could not have crawled in between him and the buoy if he had been near enough to do so. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)

It was quite shifty on the last downwind and she caught up a bit, we gybed at her on starboard and the umpires deemed that we didn't give her enough room to keep clear as our kite hit hers so unfortunately we got a penalty at the bottom of the final run so we didn't have enough time to get rid of it before the finish line. ❋ WalesOnline (2011)

While I was standing at the taffrail in admiration of this wonderful resource of nature, the main boom gybed and struck me with such force, that I was thrown into the sea. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

Gavin Brady steering Mascalzone Latino slipped through to leeward, gybed and moved themselves into the lead. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They had an amazing second leg and stormed Class 4 arriving hours ahead of the next boat, pushing hard downwind, Myles said the boat surfed at 23.8 knots, and then he Chinese gybed! ❋ Unknown (2010)

"If we'd gybed with them, we'd have been right on their tail." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Just as swiftly, Emirates gybed over into the favouring left shift, catching the Italians flat-footed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But unfortunately down the first run of the frist race Luna Rossa gybed on us and we were kind of hanging to leeward of them and went to gybe in clear air and a GP42 was coming upwind and we just about hit them and so we had to do a hard turn to back out. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Charleston sailor then gybed first at the top mark to take advantage of his knowledge of the harbor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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