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geography and seamanship, windward (/ˈwɪndwərd, ˈwɪnərd/) and leeward (/ˈliːwərd, ˈljuːərd/) are directions relative to the wind. Windward is upwind from the...8 KB (852 words) - 20:23, 25 March 2024
schooner. The ability to stop the ship quickly (by backing sails) was particularly important for a vessel doing survey work.: 82 The windward ability of brigs...21 KB (2,378 words) - 02:23, 13 June 2024
exploring unknown coastlines. It had good sailing performance, with a windward ability that was notable by the standards of the time. The lateen rig was less...208 KB (24,307 words) - 14:19, 28 June 2024
half the traditional angle when on the wind, giving the ship unusual windward ability for a square rigger. A trainee on the ship won the 2010 Torbay cup...9 KB (638 words) - 14:39, 20 November 2023
McGoldrick wrote, "although the Nonsuch's single large sail means that its windward ability will not equal that of a sloop with headsail, its modern underwater...9 KB (804 words) - 18:50, 23 August 2023
Daren Sammy (category Windward Islands cricketers)debut at the age of 17. Playing in the Red Stripe Bowl for the Northern Windward Islands against Jamaica he bowled nine overs without taking a wicket and...62 KB (6,035 words) - 06:26, 18 June 2024
The second USS Ability (MSO-519) was an Ability-class minesweeper in the service of the United States Navy. She was laid down on 5 March 1956 at Sturgeon...7 KB (808 words) - 22:12, 11 February 2024- virtually eliminates head use. Other owner complaints include poor windward ability in the shoal draft version, lack of a door on the head, and a stove...8 KB (672 words) - 19:35, 1 June 2024
- Jet (DC Comics) (redirect from Celia Windward)endowing them with immortality and metahuman powers. One of these was Celia Windward, a young Jamaican woman living in Great Britain, to whom the Guardians...6 KB (546 words) - 19:09, 25 January 2024
Dominica (category Windward Islands)of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean. It is part of the Windward Islands chain in the Lesser Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean Sea....116 KB (10,947 words) - 12:21, 19 June 2024
including Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica, and those on the Leeward and Windward Islands, came together to form the Federation, with its capital in Port...59 KB (5,875 words) - 22:39, 25 June 2024- behind the stumps, and was a goalkeeper of some ability. He played in only one international match, for Windward Islands against Australia on 26 May 1955. On...3 KB (376 words) - 21:03, 6 June 2023
- surprise to monohull sailors is that the Lagoon 37 doesn't give up any windward ability. With a pair of NACA-shaped fin keels, our 37 sailed just as high as...10 KB (780 words) - 21:46, 6 January 2024
winter, when low-hanging clouds cause freezing fog. This fog freezes to the windward (wind-facing) side of tree branches, buildings, or any other solid objects...7 KB (958 words) - 16:16, 22 November 2023
throughout north-eastern South America, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, the Windward Islands, Dominica, and possibly the southern Leeward Islands. Historically...35 KB (3,669 words) - 15:32, 19 May 2024
what he wanted in Archangel. He wanted a boat with uncompromising windward ability; a boat that he would not have to motorsail, or worse yet, power, whenever...15 KB (1,600 words) - 04:23, 2 June 2024
high-performance dinghies (sometimes called skiffs) that can plane to windward. At rest, a vessel's weight is borne entirely by the buoyant force. Every...8 KB (1,034 words) - 21:34, 11 June 2024
used in vessels with a wide range of purposes. On a fast hull, good ability to windward was useful for privateers, blockade runners, slave ships, smaller...12 KB (1,368 words) - 23:27, 29 March 2024
subsequent adiabatic warming of air that has dropped most of its moisture on windward slopes (see orographic lift). As a consequence of the different adiabatic...19 KB (2,354 words) - 15:47, 22 June 2024- new day. Most of the film was shot on location in Oahu, Hawaii, on the Windward side and the North Shore. Sandler and Barrymore won an MTV Movie Award...37 KB (3,557 words) - 01:34, 28 June 2024
- larboard tack, to windward of Point Talcet, and they appeared to speak each other. The Northumberland continued beating to windward between Grouais and
- ihu o ka naia i ka makani, "The porpoise always holds his nose up to the windward," An allusion to the manifestations of rising anger. Pili nakekeke. Literally
- and are on the same tack, the leeward boat has the right-of-way over the windward boat. Another way to say this is to say that the boat closer to the wind