When it reaches the top, Thom steers away from the wind, the enormous sail billows out to leeward and the yacht's mahogany hull digs deep into the blue-green water.

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Everyone aboard is subjected to periodic blasts of spray, and the crew members who have to work on the leeward side spend half their time up to their waists in water.

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The first was that 74-year-old pilot James "Jimmy" Leeward took last-minute actions to avoid hitting the crowded grandstands.

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The table for Camp Jacob on the island of Guadeloupe, also in the Leeward Islands, shows that rainfall increases at higher elevations and on the windward slopes exposed to the constant and moist northeast trade winds.

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