gybed

“Sir Bernard seemed to think I might have purposely gybed the yacht; is that what you think?”

The Short Forever Woods, Stuart 2001

The wind got behind the mainsail, and the yacht gybed.

The Short Forever Woods, Stuart 2001

“The yacht gybed, and James went overboard, then I did.”

The Short Forever 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.

Hornblower And The Crisis Forester, C. S. 1967

Presently the two crackling sails gybed over with a thud, and the

Swirling Waters Max Rittenberg

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.

The Splendid Spur 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.

A Poor Man's House 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.

The Wrecker 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.

The Island Treasure 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.

All Adrift or The Goldwing Club Oliver Optic 1859