astern, precariously, behind, treading water, abeam, unstuck, desperate straits, dire straits, ebb tide, plain sailing, windward passage, worryingly, reoppose, aground, promisingly, halfway, comfortably, pecking order, ahead, mathematically, comoro islands, grittily, disconsolately, rhumb line, undone, bar billiards, perilously, fishing boat, soton, shakily, scilly islands, scilly isles, frustratingly, nautical mile, john hanning speke, captain bligh, colwyn bay, nill, brightly, tatar strait, sailable, ajar, disconcertingly, wooden spoon, unknown quantity, le havre, pluckily, wild card, lonelier, hopelessly, terra incognita, conger eel, wobbly, tunbridge wells, bereft, believe, destitute, put, shorn, speak, survives, bear, bushels, depart, disappearing, docs, far, floating, predominate, serve, serving, anything, astray, be

fire ship, henry hudson, hudson, roguish

afloat, aimless, directionless, drifting, planless, purposeless, rudderless, undirected