The rate of headway required if a ship is to be controlled by the helm.
舵效航速
the boat gained steerage way
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Once the ship has stopped, it is at the mercy of wind and current until steerage way can be restored.
After we had lost all steerage way we were swept bodily southwards by the inblowing winds towards the cyclone's centre.
Keep in mind that during the loading process, the tanker has no steerage way and thus is totally dependent on the buoy for holding position.
In the absence of steerage way, the yacht can't head up; the misplaced center of effort takes charge, and she yaws.
If conditions get worse, slow down until you are making bare steerage way and hold your boat at an angle of 45° to the swells.
Although Fingal barely had steerage way and despite the fact that she quickly reversed her engines, she collided with the dark sailing ship.
The engine must be kept ticking over sufficiently to provide enough power to overcome prop drag and to provide steerage way when coming about.
This it did and we were able at last to pick up speed and regain steerage way.
It is vital for the skipper to learn about his/her boat's steerage way.
You can't get steerage way with a speedboat hull at 4 knots so they are allowed to go faster so that they can point them in the right direction.
However, it moved us along at 2.2 knots, giving us some steerage way, albeit on a course of 130 magnetic when we wanted to go 080 magnetic.
The ship, which had been steam purposefully is now steaming slowly in circles, barely making steerage way.
We went through with enough speed to maintain steerage way, but not enough to create a displacement that would suck us onto one wall or the other.
There was practically no wind, and the Elsinore, was just maintaining steerage way by means of intermittent fans of air from the north.
I would take the ordinary precaution of slowing down, whether I was in a ship equipped for ice or any other, compatible with keeping steerage way for the size of the ship.
Another, the Ionia, was swept by high seas and for many hours barely maintained steerage way.
There had to be enough canvass up to give us drive and steerage way but not enough to speed us along faster than the following waves.