windward sailing

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• Windward

  ·adv Toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows. II. Windward ·adj Situated toward...

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• windward

  The weather-side; that on which the wind blows; the opposite of leeward (which see). Old sailors exh...

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• Sailing

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Sail>>. II. Sailing ·noun The art of managing a vessel; seamanship; navigation...

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• sailing

  The movement of a vessel by means of her sails along the surface of the water. Sailing, or the saili...

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• windward passage

  One who uses or navigates the windward passage; a sodomite. ...

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• windward set

  The reverse of leeward set. ...

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• windward tide

  See weather-tide. ...

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• current sailing

  The method of determining the true motion of a ship, when, besides being acted upon by the wind, she...

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• globular sailing

  A general designation for all the methods on which the rules of computation are founded, on the hypo...

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• mercator's sailing

  Performed loxodromically, by means of Mercator's charts. ...

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• oblique sailing

  Is the reduction of the position of the ship from the various courses made good, oblique to the meri...

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• parallel sailing

  Sailing nearly on a given parallel of latitude. ...

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• plane-sailing

  That part of navigation which treats a ship's course as an angle, and the distance, difference of la...

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• right sailing

  Running a course on one of the four cardinal points, so as to alter only a ship's latitude, or longi...

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• sailing captain

  An officer in some navies, whose duties are similar to those of our masters in the royal navy. ...

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• sailing directions

  Works supplied by the admiralty to Her Majesty's ships, which advise the navigator as to the pilotag...

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• sailing ice

  A number of loose pieces floating at a sufficient distance from each other, for a ship to be able to...

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• sailing large

  With a quartering wind. (See large.) ...

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• sailing orders

  Written instructions for the performance of any proposed duty. ...

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• thermometric sailing

  A scheme for detecting the approach to shoal water by the diminution of temperature, and found to be...

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• traverse sailing

  Resolving a traverse is merely a general term for the determination of a single course equivalent to...

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• wright's sailing

  Synonymous with Mercator's sailing. ...

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• turning to windward

  See beating ...

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• working to windward

  Sailing against the wind by alternate tacks. (See beating.) ...

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• great-circle sailing

  Is a method for determining a series of points in an arc of a great circle between two points on the...

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• middle-latitude sailing

  A method of converting departure in difference of longitude, and vice versâ, by using the middle lat...

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• order of sailing

  See sailing, order of. ...

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• sailing, order of

  The general disposition of a fleet of ships when proceeding on a voyage or an expedition. It is gene...

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• turn to windward, to

  To gain on the wind by alternate tacking. It is when a ship endeavours to make progress against the ...

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• forming the order of sailing

  See sailing, order of. ...

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