The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 101
adtowards tlje direction from which the wind proceeds, the secondthat of making the boats head fall off from this direction. Asthe helmsman in a boat should always sit to windward, or withhis back to the wind, he will cause the boat to luff by pushingthe tiller from him, and to keep away by pulling… … GETTING UNDER, WEIGH. currence, and should therefore be thoroughly understood. Thuswe speak of an object to windward or leeward, and when oppositeany particular part of the boat or vessel we are in, we say theobject is on the weather or lee bow, the weather or lee beam, etc.Windward signifies…
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