unseaworthy

/ ʌnˈsiːwɜːθɪ /

adjective

But our first care was to ballast the sloop, for without it she was so crank as to be unseaworthy.

The remnant was crowded into a single small, unseaworthy brigantine under the command of Francisco Pizarro.

The line of corrosion extending around the hull might have weakened her so badly that she was unseaworthy.

This attempt to put a heavy armament on the gun-deck made the vessels roll so heavily as to be almost unseaworthy.

If only their shipwreck might keep somebody else from putting out to sea in pleasure craft unseaworthy and unlicensed!

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