How To Use Weatherly In A Sentence
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As would be expected, the deep keel version is slightly more weatherly than the wing keel version.
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A vessel in which the loss of ground downwind is minimal is described as weatherly, as opposed to leewardly.
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The cat was weatherly, too, and he pushed it to extremes of weather and distance just for the thrill of it.
SERPENT
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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
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But though we were unable to forereach upon our big neighbour, it became evident, as the morning now wore on, that the two craft were very gradually nearing each other, the extraordinary weatherly qualities of the _Esmeralda_ coming conspicuously into notice in this thrash to windward on a taut bowline, now that we had the opportunity of comparing them with those of another vessel.
The Cruise of the "Esmeralda"
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When it comes to gaff-rigged catboats, this one is among the fastest and most weatherly of this genre.
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Marian's Drew Sherkness pitched a four-inning three-hitter, and backed his cause with a home run, double and five RBI as the Colts dowed Weatherly 16-1.
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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
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We learned that she would have been a first-class sea boat, fast and weatherly, certainly capable of crossing the English Channel.
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A carpenter wrote his thanks to Weatherly for teaching him how to read instructions.
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As an afterthought, the red-headed girl suddenly added, ‘Good gracious, that Adam Weatherly is such a coxcomb.’
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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
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Colonel Weatherly returned his attention to the windows and then jerked his chin toward the carriage parked out in front.
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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
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They would increase her heel and render her by that much less weatherly.
Hornblower And The Hotspur
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She was nothing like as weatherly and far slower; the brig would headreach and weather on her.
Hornblower And The Crisis
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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
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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
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Therefore, they had shallow drafts and rode low in the water; while they were more seaworthy than many of the northern ironclads, their weatherly qualities were dubious.
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A weatherly ship is one that works well to windward, making but little leeway.