Brewer's: Lee Hatch

Take care of the lee hatch. Take care, helmsman, that the ship goes not to the leeward of her course —i.e. the part towards which the wind blows.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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