332 Choice of Course and Heaving to in a Gale. 
mined by the indications of the barometer, not neglecting other 
appearances. 
Thus when are are bound westward, in the temperate lat- 
itudes, and h terly winds with a falling barometer, they 
should steer to the northward and westward, instead of keeping 
their direct course ; and when the wind has veered to the north- 
east quarter they may resume their true course, with a fair wind 
which will veer northward ; but if finally compelled to heave to 
with the wind northeasterly or northerly, they should then take 
the port tack, so as to come up to the wind, in its further changes. 
This curved course will be found to Rives a speedy passage, in 
8, as it gives a fair wind of longer continuance, by 
placing the ship in the left side of the storm path, and in a posi- 
tion which renders the subsequent northwesterly wind more 
available. But in case of a gale’s hauling southward and west- 
ward, the ship, when headed off from her course, should be hove 
to on the starboard tack, being in the right hand side of the storm 
path. The ship will then come up to the sea, as the wind veers - 
by the west towards the northwest. 
It will at once be seen that in revolving winds a direct course 
is not always most conducive to a quick passage, but such vari- 
able course should be preferred as will render available the suc- 
ceeding changes of the wind; which changes, whether by south 
or north, sometimes depend on the course of the vessel.* — 
' The foregoing statements and suggestions are equally appli- 
cable in the southern hemisphere, with only this difference ; ViZ., 
that in the actual courses of the winds and storms, south is there 
always substituted for north; east and west remaining the same- 
Hence, the practice must ies varied accordingly. 
These practical deductions accord with the statements and di 
grams which I have published in 1831 and subsequent years: 
Storm figures of this kind, better elaborated, have also been give? 
by Col. Rem, in his work, accompanied with remarks on lying 
to, and by him and Mr. Pmprneron have been placed on cards, 
and on plates of horn or glass, in order that a mariner may deter- 
mine the place of a vessel in a storm, by placing the figure 0? 
the face of his chart, in such manner as to coincide, on the outer 
_* See, also, Col. Retn’s valuable Note on Progressive Rorelring.¥ ee and the 
of Sailing on Curved Courses Jameson's Ed. New 1. Journal for 
. Also, ho, Romar an Ting, fn he — 
Shien tu ak an 
o = 
a ft 
Oke aa Sse 
