lee shore

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At midday an unseasonal wind began gusting from the east, and our calm anchorage was transformed into a choppy lee shore. BNC

We closed the reef rapidly, approaching a dangerous lee shore with the wind and waves astern.BNC

A nasty cross sea seems to haunt its approach which nearly always brings you beam on to a lee shore and makes steering difficult. BNC

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