But he said the crew was eventually able to erect a makeshift sail to help propel the craft against the current.

They shoved the skiff out onto the water, rowed until they found a breeze, and hoisted their makeshift sail.

A single gust hit the raft and flogged the makeshift sail with a clap like a shotgun, and the sleepers woke and sat up.

They couldna reach us, with the mast broken-by the time they'd rigged a makeshift sail, we were long gone.

It was stayed with shrouds, and carried a makeshift sail.

The survivors raised the mast with a makeshift sail to protect themselves from the sun.

Their craft, which they called the Ruth-Lee after their wives, was an old fishing boat with a tiny engine and a makeshift sail.

MTB-105 rigged a makeshift sail to try and reach land.

They then used their fishing rod and some clothes to create a makeshift sail that they hoped would steer the boat toward safety.

In Croton Bay, the boys were playing hockey or speeding along the ice with makeshift sails that they had filched from their mothers' linen closets.