Word: leeward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next to be mauled were other Leeward Islands. Antigua and Barbuda caught only glancing blows, but they were powerful enough to cause $37 million in damage. In St. Kitts and Nevis, more directly in the storm's path, ham-radio operators estimated that 99% of the population of 48,000 was homeless. Damage there was put at $50 million...
...Americans widened their lead to 45 sec. on the first leeward reach and managed to make it 57 sec. by the fourth mark. But on the fifth leg, a 4.5-mile run with the wind dead astern, the lead and the Cup changed hands. Playing the wind shifts, Conner moved to the left and sailed into a patch of dead air. With sails almost slack, Liberty jibed back, but the Aussie superboat picked up two shifts of friendly wind and rounded the fifth mark with a 21-sec. lead. Conner battled desperately to recover on the last, upwind leg, going...
...last-ditch effort, as Bertrand made his final rounding of the windward mark more than 3 min. ahead, Conner tried to sail over his opponent, get to leeward of Australia II and force it to head back up to windward. He was about a minute too late. By the end of the race, in constantly shifting winds of up to 19 knots from the southwest, Bertrand led by a whopping 3 min. 25 sec. The series was tied 3-3. From London to Perth, the betting was on Australia...
...brisk Pacific night. Whiting spent the night after the accident aboard the Splendour and struck upon an alternative theory: maybe Wood, kept awake by the sound of Valiant banging against the hull in the breeze, slipped overboard while trying to move the dinghy to the yacht's leeward side...
...These, with the two compasses taken from the binnacle, was all that we had an opportunity of getting into the boat, and get in ourselves, when the ship capsized, with the mastheads in the water. ... The boats of the Captain and Second Mate were about two miles to the leeward of the ship, and each fast to a whale. Their first intimation of the loss was the boatsteerers looking in direction of the ship, cried out to the Captain "Look! Look! What ails the ship, she is upsetting." It had the appearance at first sight of a ship caught...