"The loss of hamper forward will make her the more weatherly," says Captain Rosy.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
But nevertheless she was more weatherly than either the Rolla or Francis, for in working to windward at night-time Flinders would have to run down four miles or so in the morning to join them, although they carried all the sail they possibly could.
"The Naval Pioneers of Australia"
Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery
But, as the hours wore on, the several craft gradually became more scattered, the less weatherly vessels steadily settling away to leeward, until, by the time that the dark, gloomy day drew toward its close, the fleet was spread out over a surface of ocean measuring, as nearly as one could judge, nearly or quite twelve miles in every direction: those craft that had sustained damage aloft naturally for the most part settling to leeward at a greater rate than the rest, since they were unable to dispose their canvas so advantageously as the others for the purpose of lying-to.
"The Log of a Privateersman"
Harry Collingwood