The story of a gale abating just before the start, the exact pacing by his friends, the head-back, eyes-shut finish and his collapse are vividly told in both accounts, though Mr Bascomb's florid narrative suits the race itself better.
But the day before, he took it out and got caught in a gale that slammed him into the shore and broke off the Fair Lady's rudder.
Both fleets were hindered by a gale which swept the sea shortly before 20 00.
Buildings swayed like reeds in a gale.
The experience is a bit like walking into a gale.
The breeze from the N.N.W. amounted almost to a gale.
We had had a gale not long before, and he must have ridden it all the way from Nebraska or Kansas.
I knew where I was going, I had been there once before, when the wind was blowing a gale last spring and spray blurred into the drizzle.
The fiery yin to Reynolds's laid-back yang, Liljedahl, the oldest sailor on the United States squad, charges through life like a Star running before a small gale.
A gale snapped the mainsail before it reached Rockall: he eventually chartered a trawler, the Vision, to get him out there.
Before Debbie dissipated, local Weather Bureau offices issued a gale warning and a hurricane watch from the mouth of the Mississippi River to Cedar Key, Florida.
