And indeed she had more sternway upon her than I should have thought possible.

She was stopping and in seconds would be gathering sternway.

Already she had a prodigious sternway, moving straight for the Thatcher.

It was drifting forward, warning me just in time that the ship had gathered sternway.

While making sternway, it had the opposite effect, increasing the down-angle.

He noted the distance, and waited for theCalypso to gather sternway.

Chopper lost the headway that was taking her deeper, and even began to make sternway.

Way - Movement of a vessel through the water such as headway, sternway or leeway.

Jeffrey could see the water around him churning and swirling wildly as he checked the sternway.

He had never known such a sternway.

Unconcernedly he made his way along the sternway and into the now deserted quarters of the fighters.

The anchor splashed into the water and the sternway avoided the risk that the cable would foul it.

The packet made a smooth sweep, brought her head to the wind, took on a little sternway, and dropped her anchor.

The backed topsails gave theCalypso enough sternway to make sure the anchor dug well in.

The Sleuth made sternway from shore.

TheKathleen had a little sternway which Ramage used to pay off the bow to starboard.

The Ariel shot up into the wind, paused in four fathoms, and he said 'Let go the best bower' just as sternway came on her.

The coxswain said quietly: 'No weight on the rudder, sir; we'll have sternway in a few moments.'

Now the Calypso had sternway, pushed by the backed foretopsail, putting a strain on the cable and digging the anchor in.

Manny answered and the Amy Bigalow lost sternway and began to creep slowly forward.

But as he looked up he saw the Chesapeake, her sternway checked, beginning to forge ahead - she had dropped her forecourse.

A splash and the anchor cable snaked out as the ship slowly gathered sternway and the cable straightened its curve.

Wallowing drunkenly, Huron was beginning to make sternway, as the wind pushed her backwards and the waves came tumbling aboard her.

As its up-angle passed 45 degrees, the boat slowed, coming to a halt and then falling backward, gathering sternway and sinking until it grounded.

When the tormenting sensation had passed off I asked: "Do you feel strong enough to prevent the rud- der taking charge if she gets sternway on her?