Also, a slang term for the blowing and raining of heavy weather.
Additional breeching on the non-recoil system, or security for guns in heavy weather.
A rig which in smooth water surpasses every other, but, being utterly unsuited for sea or heavy weather, is only applicable to pleasure-boats who can choose their weather.
Do come,' she said at the last, good and loud, 'and tell them how to sail a vessel in heavy weather.
You're the man to sail a race in heavy weather,' she hollers, and a hundred people looking on.
It has a buoy upon it, marking a 5 fathom shoal that breaks in heavy weather.
Depths are from 4 fathoms, where is a buoy and where it breaks in heavy weather, to some 35 fathoms over much of the rest of the ground.
This piece of shoal ground lies about midway between Monhegan Island and Pemaquid and has a 3-fathom shoal on the eastern part where the sea breaks in heavy weather.
Even in heavy weather, if properly handled, a cat is sure to come in to port with flying colours, as the writer can attest by his own experience.
A very important fitting is a hatch by which the cockpit can be completely covered in in heavy weather.
When square sails are set, this gradual movement in the same direction is still more important; for, should the wind fly suddenly ahead, the sails may be taken aback, a very awkward situation in heavy weather.
Her first lieutenant assured me that in heavy weather a glass of water could not get off the table.
How far it was expected to go may be inferred from the precautions; and we gain here some inkling of the phrase "heavy weather" applied to such conditions.
We all knew that Irish sailors, half the time, were not very well trained, but anything that could pull and haul would be invaluable to us, in heavy weather.
Beating the wind and attacking ship, my poor Mr. Budd used to say, were nice manoeuvres, and required most of his tactics, especially in heavy weather.
Always when in rough water or in heavy weather keep a vang or down-haul on the peak of the gaff.
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