The fifteen-masted clipper loomed on the horizon, its silhouette an impossible stack of spars and sails.

The twin-masted schooner slipped quietly out of the harbor as the sun rose.

The museum's scale model of a sixteen-masted ship drew crowds fascinated by its impossible rigging.

The three-masted ship sailed into the harbor at dawn, its silhouette cutting a graceful line against the rising sun.

The eight-masted clipper sailed into the harbor, drawing curious crowds.

The old clipper's jigger masts creaked in the gusts as we sailed into the harbor.

The veteran sailor checked the rigging on the jigger-masts before the long voyage.

The shipbuilders carefully inspected the fore-masts before the voyage.

The old clipper's main-masts creaked in the storm as sailors secured the sails.

The sailors climbed the royal masts to furl the sails before the storm.