gybe

Object

• round: Simon and Sarah stretched their lead and gybed round the wing mark in front of the swimming Terry and Caroline.
• practice: Some slick gybing practice will soon have the opposition wobbling at the knees.

Converse of object

• carve: Despite these modest successes, tho, I couldn't make a single carve gybe.
• do: On this leg we have paid for doing one two many gybes.

Preposition: at

• mark: That was fine until the gybe at the bottom mark, when " the spinnaker chose to wrap itself around the forestay.

Adjective modifier

• poor: A poor spinnaker gybe allowed Rahier back into second place and a provisional championship win.
• last: Pippa and Harriette and Joanne and Laurie made the last gybe but Ally and Maia wiped out.

Modifies a noun

• mark: At the gybe mark the order was the same.

Modifying Another Word

• back: It then pays to let the sheet out a bit more to avoid it gybing back on the next meander in course.
• just: He is annoyed at the antics of a Sunsail yacht, No 18 he says, that had just gybed under his bow.

Noun used with modifier

• spinnaker: We then had to practice spinnaker gybes on the whistle, if you please!
• duck: Short board gybe carve, slalom gybe; duck gybe; slam gybe; tacking shorter boards.

Infinitive complement

• get: Matt and Nick flew toward the finish in a gust but had to gybe to get through the gate.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• off: Ericsson was over early and had to gybe off to the other side of the course.