baffling wind

Weather hazy, with a light baffling wind from the eastward.

The Malaita coast was only twenty miles away, but the last night a strong current and baffling winds prevented them from gaining across.

In the end the Galapagos may have been protected by the very diversity that makes it so special: the criss-crossing currents, the baffling winds.

He looked unable to be shaken by the pressure, the competition or the baffling winds that made the Players Championship so punishing for so many others.

When the schooner at last returned for us, after much experience of baffling winds, she brought a rumour that Tebureimoa had declared war on Apemama.

The Doldrums, also called the "equatorial calms", are the calms and light baffling winds at the intertropical convergence zone.

"Tedious, baffling winds, heavy fogs, detained three weeks on Banks--foul weather making Gulf--short of water, people out of provisions, steerage passengers starving."

We laid her head for the nearest port in Spanish America, for we could not risk the voyage home without fresh hands; and as it was, what with baffling winds and a couple of fresh gales, we were all worn out before we reached it.

The baffling winds and calms of the outward voyage restored the average by sweeping the ship northwards across the line and up into the trades with hardly a pause, and presently the peak of Tenerife lay there on -the starboard beam, a gleaming triangle under its private cloud, nearly a hundred miles away.

Surprise, at sea Sweetheart, We have picked up the moonsoon, after baffling winds and light airs among the Laccadives, and at last I can turn to my letter again with an easy mind: we are sailing through the Eight Degree channel with flowing sheets, Minicoy bearing NNW four leagues.