There was a southwesterly breeze off the water now, and Lieutenant had picked up the beat of engines a mile Again he could not see where the boat docked.

And the Stars & Stripes crew managed to get ahead of Black Magic once after the start in the 6-knot southwesterly breeze.

The race, sailed in a 5- to 9-knot southwesterly breeze, was a heart-stopper by yacht racing standards, with at least six lead changes.

"We are fortunate in having this southwesterly breeze; I only pray that it may hold."

On Friday, in a stiff southwesterly breeze over Rhode Island Sound, 175 yachts answered the starting guns to begin the 42nd running of the Newport-Bermuda Race.

At dawn they were off Cape Banks in South Australia, in a fresh southwesterly breeze and a moderate sea.

BOB RICE, the team's weather adviser, said that a "continuous bombardment" of adverse low-pressure systems and southwesterly breezes has prevented him from giving Edwards the go-ahead.

"They were the first to dip south toward Cape Town after riding out a southwesterly breeze."

There's an expectancy to the air, a compound of my thrumming heart, the tangy river water, and a brisk southwesterly breeze.

Stars & Stripes's penalty turn, initiated in a light, 7-8-knot southwesterly breeze, cost the men's team as much as four boat lengths in distance to America .