weatherly

The cat was weatherly, too, and he pushed it to extremes of weather and distance just for the thrill of it.

SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

The cat was weatherly, too, and he pushed it to extremes of weather and distance just for the thrill of it.

SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

She was nothing like as weatherly and far slower; the brig would headreach and weather on her.

Hornblower And The Crisis Forester, C. S. 1967

Her motion was violent and, to the uninitiated, quite unpredictable, and she was hardly more weatherly than a raft, sagging off to leeward in a spineless fashion that boded ill for any prospect of working up to Plymouth while any easterly component prevailed in the wind.

Hornblower And The Crisis Forester, C. S. 1967

They would increase her heel and render her by that much less weatherly.

Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

If Hotspur had been the faster and the more weatherly of the two he could have maintained any distance he chose.

Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

A gain of twenty or thirty yards, repeated often enough, and added to the steady gain resulting from being the more weatherly ship, would eventually close the gap.

Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

They were the most weatherly ships and could afford the additional risk in order to be close up to Brest should a sudden shift of wind enable the French to get out.

Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

She worked and steered well under canvas or steam alone, or under both combined; was dry and weatherly, but pitched heavily, and was rather deficient in stability.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various

And if the worst came to the worst and they were caught out at sea, why, the boats were weatherly craft, manned by the best of seamen, and an hour or two at the most would see them fight their way back to port.

Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang