weatherly

He was standing on what seemed a dry and weatherly ship.

"Do you agree she looks the most weatherly of the trio?"

She's weatherly, too, in conditions that would sink another boat.

She was a good weatherly ship, neither stiff nor tender; she would be all right.

The French can't fight, but by God they can build weatherly ships.'

A weatherly ship, though slow: fitting foreign for the Leeward Islands station.

The Cenlac wasn't all that large, and the ferry lacked the weatherly lines of a blue-water craft.

These weather conditions hugely favored the more seaworthy, more weatherly galleons.

The vessels of the class were fast, recording 13kts large and 10-11kts close-hauled, weatherly and manoeuvrable.

'She is a sound, well- found, weatherly ship, and Mowett has a crew of thoroughpaced seamen.

They were faster ships than the Southamptons, and were weatherly craft, remaining dry even in high seas.

They may not be much to look at, but they are good weatherly ships and they came round as well as the Ariel.

"They're all fast and weatherly craft.

Launched in May 1666 at Bristol, the ship proved an outstanding success as a fast, weatherly sailing warship.

It is not very long, thanks be, and we are a weatherly ship: and when you are through, there is Spalato right before you.'

Rather, the frigate was an austere and weatherly vessel suitable for mass-construction and fitted with the latest innovations in anti-submarine warfare.

A "privateer" was a fast and weatherly fore-and-aft-rigged vessel heavily armed and heavily crewed, intended exclusively for fighting.

Aboard Surprise again, and in ordinary working clothes, he called for the carpenter and said, 'All things considered, Chips, which do you think our fastest, most weatherly boat?'

The most weatherly of them,Ramageestimated, were steering no closer to the wind than west-north-west and several (they looked like Spaniards) weresagging off to leeward as though in despair.

'If your junk is at all weatherly - and I am sure she is a wonderfully weatherly craft - it should bring her round by the afternoon.

The barky is a very weatherly ship, but even she makes some leeway; and if it comes on to blow right chronic, even she must lose some southing.'

Fortunately, the Delferahkan galleons, which were what the privateers truly wanted, were substantially slower and less weatherly than Raptor or Shaikyr's other three galleons.

Now the dhow was heading in again toward the docks, tacking clumsily against the rising breeze and making poor way; even a landlubber's eye could see it was not a weatherly craft.

William Reade, master's mate, handles her very well indeed - an uncommon fast and weatherly Chesapeake clipper - and I shall have the utmost need for such a craft.'