What is "moderate breeze"

Usage examples of "moderate breeze".

A moderate breeze, which passes over twenty-four feet to the second, will give sixteen turns to the sails during a minute, and there is no need of more.

He saw him shake his turbaned head, and a minute later the proas hauled their wind, skimming away at thirteen or even fourteen knots on the moderate breeze.

For the next few days they had some very sweet sailing on a warm, moderate breeze whose only fault was that it varied from west-north-west to north-north-west, so that at times they were close-hauled and at times they were fetching, but always with a fine array of headsails: very sweet sailing had they not been in a hurry.

At first they had to row against the tide, the swell and the moderate breeze, but zeal made nothing of it for the first three quarters of an hour.

Yet some parts of his mind must have been active, since he knew perfectly well that the launch had gone about four times and that the wind had diminished to a moderate breeze.

The Sophie had cleared the Sicilian Channel that morning and she was steering west-north-west, with Cape Teulada in Sardinia bearing north by east twenty-three leagues, a moderate breeze at north-east, and only some two hundred and fifty miles of sea between her and Port Mahon.

The frigate had a moderate breeze on her larboard quarter, with Pomone no great way astern.

The Alexandria put before the wind, spread studdingsails and began throwing a bow-wave, most creditable in this moderate breeze.

In this moderate breeze and smooth sea the handy sloop held every advantage over the big frigate.

A moderate breeze off the shore blew windows in the fog, and strange turbulencies.