The sea was already so rough that the only mode that remained of getting into their boat was by dropping from the end of the spanker boom.

Now we took the other boat, the only one left, and lashed it upright to the spanker-stays.

She had her fore-sail, mizen, and fore-stay-sail, and spanker set, which was nearly all the canvass she could show.

We had a hard time to get this boat loose from the spanker-stay, and we lowered it with the spanker-tackle.