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Sentence Examples A scarped windward slope is the aspect most characteristic of coastal dunes. At this point Ron will fly to the south side of the valley to try to get on the windward side of the hillsides. He turned and continued his pacing along the windward side of the quarterdeck, easily adjusting his stride to the pitch and roll of the ship. Although she can sail to windward, it is generally quicker to row into head winds, or through crowded anchorages. The shroud base is very wide, restricts sheeting angles and will contribute to reduced performance to windward. Bring the midship part of the boat to windward of him and give him an oar to grasp. The water gained on the pumps but Athneal stuck with the vessel and slowly managed to beat to windward. Finding that they had not been making sufficient way to windward, Nares ordered the sails reefed and steam power used instead. It is probable that these ships would have been very slow and unable to make effective progress to windward. On the windward side of the island there are numerous narrow, powdery beaches and deserted rocky coves. Rainfall is often heavy especially in the interior near the mountains and on the windward sides of the large islands. The location is typical of an Amerindian settlement in that it is located on the windward side of the island. Placed too high up on a sailboat's mast, the radar might miss seeing a nearby target on the windward side when a boat is heeled over. On the eastern side is the Koolau Range, whose spectacular fissured cliffs front the windward side of the island. He said the Sea King helicopters on Manoora are vital in taking resources including police to the windward side of the island group. A temporary solution is to open a window to let in a little make up air, preferably on the windward side of the house. Mauka Makai Excursions offers archaeological and hiking tours of the windward side of Oahu. When a sloop is hove to she is stopped in the water by her foresail being sheeted aback, on the windward side. She will easily sail through 90 degree tacks to windward, and off the wind, the Bermuda rig provides excellent performance. As soon as they passed over the ridge they experienced a considerable air bump throwing the aircraft suddenly upwards on the windward side. Show More Sentences The leeboards made for good windward shelter in the cockpit, and the guards made a great boarding step. Remember that if there is a boat to windward of you, you have the same rights to force the boat over. Pawson made a bad start and Hardy established a significant lead by the windward mark and went on to win. With erosion on the windward slope and deposition in the lee, the dune body moves in a downwind direction. This effect occurs because of air rising on the windward side of the mountains, causing rain and drizzle. But in the time that sorting out that mess takes, Charlie, to windward, has gone past her. You can normally tell the lee side from the windward side by looking for cornices. I strolled around the windward side and looked out at the twinkling lights abreast Rayong. Start with helms staggered on the beach by skill factor from windward to leeward. Text messages needed to be sent and received before the next beat to windward, or in fact anything requiring two hands. Even on the bleaker windward slope, grasses and sedges are dotted with Bermuda cedar and guava bushes. I had occasion to observe the vessel griped to windward considerably. Place the stake on the windward side, so that the tree is not rubbing against the stake when the wind blows. Where the sty is above a small pond it must be built on the windward side, so that the wind spreads the manure over the pond. These ships were especially effective when sailing upwind or to windward. The required light windward ardency did not increase, even when the tilt was larger. Plant the tree on the lee side of the stake and not on the windward side, so that the tree will not rub against the stake. Sand grains are blown up the windward side of the heap and over the crest until the leeward side of the dune is so steep that it slumps under its own weight. It was more difficult to sail today than yesterday as the courses were smaller and the windward mark was often level with the sea wall. This creates a gradual slope of sand on the windward side and a steep slope on the leeward side, away from the wind. Show More Sentences We have ploughed a phosphorescent furrow in the darkness through chunky, Atlantic seas, windward of the West Indies, from Barbados down to Tobago. When wind blows against the house, it creates a highpressure area on the windward side, and air is forced into the house. Safari altered course abruptly to port then turned to starboard until the vessel was on a westerly heading to windward. When the starting gun was fired, Marc Guillemot managed to place its Safran in the most windward position of the fleet. Thus predators following its track will have to approach from the windward direction. Openings weaken a shear wall's capacity to act as a rigid whole and effectively resist lateral forces on windward elements of the building. As the wind progresses up the windward slope of the dune form, streamlines are compressed by the dune body, causing an acceleration of flow towards the crest. The third race proved the most exciting with some contestants taking a close-hauled course to the windward mark and others taking the faster, but longer, broader course. From the mobile start line north of Rough Holme, Naiad got away well in the light south-westerly airs and reached the windward mark at Claife with a narrow lead. On Bamboo Island, the coral on the windward side was mostly destroyed, but otherwise it was the perfect white-sand island I'd first seen 15 years before. Using sticky yellow polythene sheets, which are erected vertically on the windward side of the fields and nurseries, can help ward off these vectors. It is on the windward side of the island and so the full force of the Atlantic winds and waves sweeps in against it, pushing up a thirty-yard breadth of sand. Most importantly, in our ameliorated reading, the ship that is the Church is seen not wallowing passively before the onslaught of waves coming from windward and leeward. With a mixed start for both multihull categories, the Nacras, sailing higher, created somewhat of a nuisance for the Hobies which they passed to windward. Four ships, including Dumanoirs Formidable sailed to windward of the British and exchanged shots with them as they passed, then sailed away from the battle. On Monday 18 yachts sailed in the north lake where an extremely strong wind from the north created survival conditions on the windward leg to FBA North. During the age of sail, the term weather was used as a synonym for windward in some contexts, as in the weather gage. The greater beam provided more moment of leverage by placing the crew or any other mobile weight on the windward side. Leeward and windward refer respectively to what a game stalker would call downwind and upwind. Thus, leeward or windward siting is an important weather and climate factor on oceanic islands. Show More Sentences In the case of an archipelago, windward islands are upwind and leeward islands are the downwind ones. At the adiabatic dew point, moisture condenses onto the mountain and it precipitates on the top and windward sides of the mountain. In mountainous areas, heavy precipitation is possible where upslope flow is maximized within windward sides of the terrain at elevation. On each change of tack, Marc Guillemot will have to stack everything on the windward side, which means moving «around 400 to 500 kilos of equipment. Wind creates a positive pressure outside the house on the windward side, forcing air inward, and a negative pressure on the leeward side and over the roof, drawing air outward. Shelf ice occurs when floating pieces of ice are driven by the wind piling up on the windward shore. When the Shamrock V was revealed, she was an outdated wooden boat with a wooden mast and performed poorly to windward. Once the boats round the windward mark again they are on the fourth and final leg where they race downwind towards the finish in hope of winning. The third leg is basically a repeat of the first leg where they beat upwind going towards the windward mark. As their boats and crew get to the windward mark they round it leaving it to starboard, or the right side of the boat. The earliest naval trawler, xebec and windward ships were employed by the Barbary pirates from the 16th century. Here the main sail is placed on the windward side of the boat, leading to a heightened risk of gybing. At ten to six in the morning, while the Gilbert was bucking to windward against the gale, the barge on the foredeck broke loose, stripping the tarpaulins off the main hatch as it slid across to crash into the port bulwarks. The groundcrew quickly released the radome latches, moved to the windward side of the aircraft, and got ready to raise the dome. Any action that reduces the angle of heel of a boat that is reaching or beating to windward will help reduce excessive weather helm. This also enabled them to maintain a position to windward so that the heeling Armada hulls were exposed to damage below the water line. A vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it. In beam and quartering winds, ice accumulates more quickly on the windward side of the vessel, thus leading to a constant list which is extremely dangerous. Spray operator should work to windward to stay out of drift or mist. It more like growing on the active sand area and windward side of foredune. Show More Sentences With below average sea temperatures over the North Atlantic, it was not surprisingly a chilly month in northern and western parts of the British Isles, especially around windward coasts. The windward performance of the ship was poor by modern standards as there was no centreboard, deep keel or leeboard. A vessel has the weather gage of another when she is to windward of her. A weatherly ship is one that works well to windward, making but little leeway. The sand mass of dunes can move either windward or leeward, depending on if the wind is making contact with the dune from below or above its apogee. With the main placed perpendicular to the boat to windward, and then pulled in slightly, the leech is allowed to act as the leading edge of an airfoil. Slope soaring uses the rising air on the windward side of large waves. Beatty was to windward of Hipper, and therefore funnel and gun smoke from his own ships tended to obscure his targets, while Hipper's smoke blew clear. Those sails which are behind the most windward one receiving the pressure of the wind, throw it from one to the other, so that they all profit from its force. For this reason, rule 12 of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea stipulates that the windward vessel gives way to the leeward vessel. Examples from Classical Literature I admit I swore a little at the bunglesome cuss, but he was well to windward, so I might just as well have saved my breath. She had been built to cross the bars of the American harbours, and would not travel to windward. Rub a little of the Oil of cummin on your hand and approach the horse on the windward side, so that he can smell the cummin. Let us get to windward and see what they are doing on the other side of the bonfire. Fitzroy, however, made a rapid calculation, and pulled to windward with all his might. So, all told, they were able to start rather to the windward, as Bragdon put it. I'll tell you where, too, and that's about forty miles to windward of Kauai. Not only this, but she will also drift to leeward when beating to windward. Similarly aeb is the distribution of pressure on the windward and AFB on the leeward side of a diagonal section. We were able to lay past the enemy on this tack, and fairly got to windward of them. The best plan is to make to windward along the coast of Upolu after leaving Apia. Seeds and plants from Sumatra and Java have been driven up by the surf on the windward side of the islands. Then I seemed to descry at the point of the bay windward a sail. The Island of Desiderade, near Guadeloupe, was in sight to windward. I saw in the morning, some miles to the windward, the elevated summits of the island. The first, the orographic effect occurs on the windward side of the mountain. In the morning, when I went on the platform, I saw two miles to windward, Hawaii, the largest of the seven islands that form the group. It is necessary that the outrigger should always be on the windward side. I ran to windward, belayed the braces, and raised a loud cry. Wolf Larsen motioned Louis to keep off slightly, and we dashed abreast of the boat, not a score of feet to windward. Show More Sentences At least it appears that the English passed to windward of tromp. One day, after we had been paddling about for some time, I disembarked Kory-Kory, and paddled the canoe to the windward side of the lake. And young Powell turned his eyes to windward with a catch in his breath. Wolf Larsen repeated his manoeuvre, holding off and then rounding up to windward and drifting down upon it. It was only next day, when Wainwright Island loomed to windward, close abeam, that Wolf Larsen opened his mouth in prophecy. If you would on'y lay your course, and a p'int to windward, you would ride in carriages, you would. In the first place, they dug deep holes in the snow, piling it up in ramparts to windward as a protection against the blast. As soon as they passed the beacons, they began to ply to windward. Find more words! 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