Word: leeward
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Through these tactics it became necessary to tack down wind in order to reach the leeward mark, and while the Tech skipper was figuring out problems of aerodynamic import on his calibrated sliderule, the great Miller with consummate ease jibed his craft three times, but on each occasion his machinations bailed and Tech ran off with the "championship...
Sailing ten foot Dyer Dinghys in a fluky wind that died before the day was out, George Nicholas and Roger Wilcox, Harvard representatives in Classes A and B, led the heats around a short windward - leeward course that took about an half-hour to sail...
From Jamaica the Commission sailed eastward along the crescent of islands that forms the Leeward and Windward groups, down through Barbados (whose 1,163 people to the square mile make up the densest agricultural population in the Western Hemisphere) to Tobago and Trinidad (which imports four-fifths of its food). Everywhere the investigators found squalor, economic decay, unrest. Ruled by professional colonial administrators, with a hierarchy of whites and an exploited mass of blacks, Chinese and East Indian coolies, the West Indies were the victims of unrepresentative government, of the low exchange value of such primary products as sugar, cocoa...
With that in mind the following solution is suggested: Let Great Britain grant the United States title to Jamaica, British Honduras, Bermuda, The Bahamas, British Guiana, the Falkland Islands, Trinidad, Dominica, Santa Lucia, Tobago, British Leeward Islands, British Windward Islands and all other British possessions in the Western Hemisphere including all Pacific Islands but excluding the Dominion of Canada in complete fulfillment of her financial obligations...
...right," the voice called. "A good voyage to you." And the cutter slowly turned away to leeward and disappeared in the night...