In Fig. 2, the smaller ship is within a short distance of the bigger leading one and abaft the beam of the latter. Both vessels being in motion, the effect of the stream-line forces is a ...

An object aft of another is abaft that object.Submarines can correctly be referred to as boats. The left and right of a vessel is port and starboard, respectively. That said, we see no reason to ...

Ray Lein tries to outrun Storm Babette in his Atlanta 25, before taking shelter behind Worm’s Head in the Bristol Channel ...

The clever aft tailgate is a ­highlight feature of the 235 Open Wake ID. With the gate up, there’s a 12-inch-deep platform abaft the rather tall transom of this center-console. But that entire transom ...

This car made good time with the wind abaft or on the quarter, but with the wind abeam it would capsize at times, and no wind at all caused some provoking delays. The Charleston Courier of March ...

His traditional schooner, the Windfall II is a fore-and-aft rigged (as opposed to square-rigged) sailing vessel with (at ...

They usually approach the target ship from abaft the beam, put on a burst of speed, fire warning shots forcing the ship to stop and board the ship at the lowest freeboard using grapnels.