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November 20. I being then at the helm and looking on the windward side of the ship saw a very large whale approaching us. I called out to the mate to inform him of it. On his seeing the whale he instantly gave me an order to put the helm hard up. I had scarcely time to obey the order, when I heard a loud cry from several voices at once, that the whale was coming foul of the ship. Scarcely had the sound of their voices reached my ears when it was followed by a tremendous crash, the whale...
...always easy. Because the Leewards mostly have short runways-landing on Saba's 1,300-ft. strip is like putting down on an aircraft carrier-visitors to these islands can go by jet only as far as St. Maarten; from there they proceed either by boat or Windward Islands Airways International (Winair). For Montserrat and Barbuda, the traveler flies to Antigua and then takes LIAT, acronym for Leeward Island Air Transport. On to the islands...
...called because they are downwind of the prevailing northeasterly trade winds. Though the entire Lesser Antilles chain was known to the Spaniards as the Windward Islands-Islas de Barlovento -the group running from the Virgins to Guadeloupe is now known as the Leewards...
...thriving fashion firm, an inventor, a rabbi, an actress, a TV producer, advertising and insurance executives, a stock analyst, a nurse and a porno movie queen. Most started off by renting a boat for summer weekends. Then they became addicted, but kept an apartment as an anchor to windward. Then they gave...
...dream of and the New York Yacht Club ritually invokes. The outcome has been virtually certain since the first leg of the first race, when it was discovered that Australia-mainly because of the poor cut of her jibs-could neither point as high nor go as fast to windward as Courageous...