weather-helm

That, in the fabric of knowledge, there should be any connection whatever between a woman with hysterics and a schooner carrying a weather-helm or heaving to in a gale, would have struck him as ridiculous and impossible.

Chapter 13 2010

The Calliope, with no pressure on the rudder to resist her weather-helm, swung ponderously into the wind.

Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

That, in the fabric of knowledge, there should be any connection whatever between a woman with hysterics and a schooner carrying a weather-helm or heaving to in a gale, would have struck him as ridiculous and impossible.

Chapter 13 1908

That indicates that the water is pressing gently against the rudder -- the ship carries a small weather-helm, as a well - modelled and properly rigged ship should -- and if you were to release the wheel it would move a spoke or two to the right, and the ship would run up into the wind.

The Missing Merchantman Harry Collingwood 1886

"All that weather-helm must make at least half a knot difference in her sailing."

The Voyage of the Aurora Harry Collingwood 1886

We accordingly shook both reefs out of the mainsail, and got the foresail and working-jib set, with which canvas we rushed along in true racing style, our lee-rail well buried, and the craft taking just enough weather-helm to allow of her being steered to a hair's-breadth.

Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War Harry Collingwood 1886

The instant effect was to make her carry a weather-helm, and great care was now required to prevent her flying up into the wind, and being taken aback; a most perilous position to be placed in under the present circumstances.

The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

a weather-helm or heaving to in a gale, would have struck him as ridiculous and impossible.

Essays 2007

I was awakened some time during the night -- I had no idea whatever of the hour -- by the loud rustling of canvas; and upon starting to my feet I found that the wind had strengthened so considerably that the slight amount of weather-helm afforded by the lashed wheel had at length proved insufficient, with the result that the brig had shot into the wind, throwing both topsails aback and her fore and aft canvas a-shiver.

The Castaways Harry Collingwood 1886

I was now obliged to take the wheel; but it was not long before I made the discovery that, under the sail now set, the brig was practically steering herself, and by the time that I had been at the wheel half an hour I had contrived to hit off so accurately the exact amount of weather-helm required to keep the craft going "full-and-by," that I was able to lash the wheel, and attend to other matters.

The Castaways Harry Collingwood 1886