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beam wind
[ wind ]
noun
- a wind blowing against a vessel from a direction at right angles to its keel.
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The surface was good, but a strong beam wind hindered us while approaching the head of Depot Bay.
But her faith in the boat was justified, for she sailed wonderfully well with the beam wind.
On a stormy day, with beam wind for a considerable part of the course, such an appendage will undoubtedly assist a sculler.
The St. Pierre shook out her bellying sails and the white sheets drew to a full beam wind.
The latter method is one way of “coming to,” instead of luffing up in the usual way from a beam wind.
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