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The wind is blowing from the left as shown. What is the side in red called?

A boat seen from above, bow at the top. Her left-hand half is red. The wind blows from the left.
A boat seen from above, bow at the top. Her left-hand half is red. The wind blows from the left.
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The windward side. Windward is the side the wind blows onto. Leeward (said "loo-ard") is the sheltered side. Be sick over the leeward side.

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