dead before the wind

Any progress they made would only be running almost dead before the wind.

Would they all be dead before the winds sent word?

We were now dead before the wind, the boat far away and abreast of us.

Then they let the little vessel swing around and run in a south-easterly direction dead before the wind, under bare poles.

Mama mia, with stunsails set and running almost dead before the wind it was hard to see forward.

'Taint as though we're running dead before the wind so we have stunsails set both sides."

In light weather, she was handicapped only if driven by her rotors alone, and only in comparison with a fully rigged sailing vessel dead before the wind.

There was again that odd stillness as the schooner came dead before the wind, and the lurch as the sails swung across and filled on the new tack.

As Southwick brought theTriton round to larboard Ramage felt her motion change; the combined roll and pitch on her original course, with the wind on the quarter, changed to sluggish pitching as she ran almost dead before the wind to pass across the corner of the convoy.