The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

With the Sun

Sea Terms

A rope laid up from right to left is said to be laid up with the sun. When the wind shifts around the compass in the same way that the hands of a watch revolve (from north to south by the way of east) it is said to shift with the sun. The sun is supposed to move from right to left. (See Against the Sun.)

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