wind aft

Stone thought the thing must be good for four or five knots, more if surfing with the wind aft.

"It's definitely an industry with the wind aft," said Emmanuel Dupart, of France-Congrès, an industry association.

Soon the cutter turned to head out towards the Atlantic and with the wind aft she rolled violently, the end of themain boom occasionally dipping in the water.

During the night they brought the wind aft as they went north about Mauritius, and when Stephen woke he found the Boadicea on an even keel; she was pitching gently, and the urgent music that had filled her between decks these last days was no longer to be heard.