The sun shines all year around and the wind is hauling.

He smiled and said, "Haul the canvas to the wind, steer and hold that wind.

"Normally, anybody who makes swing changes, you get exposed in the wind when the wind's hauling, you miss-hit shots, or it's going to show up," the 35-year-old American said.

The wind had hauled a little ahead on the starboard bow, and was dry but chilly.

The wind hauled ahead with a head sea.

If the wind had not hauled round a little north of east we might have made the Friendly Isles tomorrow.

But if the wind does haul northerly, and if it only holds true, there is just a chance we may run off the distance.

On the fifth day the cold became extreme, although the wind had hauled round a point more to the northward.

The wind that blows down off the Ice is, in simple truth, deadly; and we have to face it as we haul.

Before morning the wind had hauled into the north, the skies were clearing, and the sea was falling out.