What's the sailing ship equivalent for "Full speed ahead!"?

"Make all Sail"

The actions which follow this order can be seen if you Google "let out reefs" to find Ch VI of 'Observations and instruction for ...Royal Navy. 1902'
These actions include letting out the ;reefs' which had shortened the sail, squaring up the 'yards,' tightening halyards, attaching sails. The ship could then be described as "under full sail."

Definition of in or under full sail "With all the sails in position or fully spread:" a galleon in full sail. (Oxford)

If they were 'running before the wind, the wind would be coming from directly behind the boat.

(Spinaker, Gull-Wing or Stud-Sails describe sails set for running before the wind)

A studding sail, studsail or stunsail (traditionally pronounced stuns'l) is a sail used to increase the sail area of a square rigged vessel or 1950s racing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studding_sail

Antonyms: in irons, three sheets to the wind, bare poles


Several other answers cover the extremeness of "All sail" or "Crowd Sail" etc.

As anyone with sailing knowledge can explain there's no single on switch for the situation you describe.

The sail to be set would be a matter of precision. The ship's officer on duty would want very specific things, and would give very specific orders.

How strong is the wind? From which direction? Does the ship need to tack and does it have enough momentum to do so? Next, what sails were reefed or furled during the storm? It would be wrong to assume that a clipper would strip down to bare masts for a storm (a ship without steerageway is the equivalent of trying to balance on a bike without forward momentum).

So an order to "Shake out", "loose", or "set" certain sails would be given.

The closest catch phrase of the sort you're describing would be an officer delegating to someone else. "Prepare to make way" or "Get us underway" might be commands given to a responsible individual who was to use their own judgement regarding what sail was called for by the conditions, then he would give orders for the specifics.

You should be able to find all of the phrases I've used here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_nautical_terms

As well as descriptions of the different types, levels, and categories of sails that a clipper might be equipped with.

Edit: I found a good quote regarding the subject of how much sail would be taken in during a storm. {The answer of course is "exactly as much as was needed"}

There is no single definition of the characteristics of a clipper ship, but mariner and author Alan Villiers describes them as follows:

To sailors, three things made a ship a clipper. She must be sharp-lined, built for speed. She must be tall-sparred and carry the utmost spread of canvas. And she must use that sail, day and night, fair weather and foul.