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Rich islands, too, and only a week distant with the wind abeam.

Both ships had the wind abeam as if they raced the moon and the stars.

Having caught the trade winds only that morning, the ship lay over with the wind abeam.

The ship was still on the larboard tack, with the wind abeam.

At the right moment, theFafnisbane moving at her best pace with the wind abeam, he yelled one order.

With the fresh east wind abeam, the Bounty was sailing fast on the starboard tack, rolling slowly and regularly to the lift of the swell.

We sailed about two hours after sunrise, with the east wind abeam, and I was able to make my report to Mr. Bligh the same afternoon.

"That's the easterly point of Fakarava, and we'll go in through the passage full-tilt, the wind abeam, and every sail drawing."

She steered easily, and she could run day and night, without steering, close-by, full- and-by, and with the wind abeam.

With the wind abeam they would have left our best frigates hull-down in no time, and, close-hauled, they would lay incredibly close to the wind.

The tillers were put up and the sails trimmed to take the wind abeam as the Red Lion swung to port to keep the galley dead ahead.

'Well, from the way he is trimming sail, I believe Mr Woodbine means to take us through in spite of the wind abeam.

Did they attempt to make it, we could haul after them with the wind abeam, and overtake them before they had covered an eighth of the distance.

It was a special joy for both of us then to see his galley come flying around the bend in the river, full on the current and with a strong desert wind abeam.

The remaining Viking was going to try it, to scud south with the wind abeam and all the easting he could get, rather than wait passively for death like his consort had.

We were already under way, all sails set and drawing, and the sheets being slacked off for a wind abeam, as the last boat lifted clear of the water and swung in the tackles.

'You've got a smart ship, you 'ave,' said Mr Whittle as the Teasel headed towards the big barge, swung round close by her and was off, racing down the river with the wind abeam.

First a swift run to the east with wind abeam as soon as they'd got out of Salthaven harbor, leaving the Rimic fishing fleet very busy to the southwest, where the sea seemed to boil with fish, until they were well past the white salt headland.

A beam wind blew it out swiftly.

We sailed with a beam wind along the shore, searching the coves with our glasses and landing occasionally, without finding a sign of human life.

Catching the littleTriton on the quarter, adding their quota to the beam wind on the spars and trysail, they would make her broach.

The ship just did not look right, although what worried me most was how she would behave in a beam wind, where all the upper works would act like a sail.

The Corwin was reported to be capable of 12 knots under sail (48 hour average with a beam wind), 11.5 knots under steam alone, and 13-14 knots under combined power.

The craft en route from Ryde to Southsea was hit by a very large freak wave, after a strong beam wind against an adverse tide combined to produce a dangerous beam sea.

All morning, under a brisk beam wind which had sprung up with the rising of the sun, the Arangi flew north, her course continuously advertised by the increasing smoke-talk that gossiped along the green summits.

There was, of course, no wireless and no toilet or anything like that; the machine cruised at about a hundred miles an hour, so that if there was a beam wind or a head wind the trip to Paris would take over three hours.

Once they were clear of Punta del Espero, the easternmost tip of La Mola, they would have a beam wind and a fast run to Cape Favaritx, then only five miles and all downhill to Macaret at the entrance to Port d'Addaia.