Definition
The half of a revolving storm on the side where the storm's forward motion adds to its circulating wind, and where the wind tends to blow a vessel into the track ahead. It is the right-hand semicircle relative to the direction of travel in the Northern Hemisphere and the left-hand in the Southern. The opposite half is the navigable semicircle, in which running with the wind on the appropriate quarter takes a vessel clear.
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