abaft
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Athena carries an owner�s party of 12 in six staterooms, all situated abaft the engineroom.
From Time Magazine Archive
The amidships cockpit has teak bench seats on each side, and the winches are bunched just forward and abaft the twin carbon fiber wheels.
From Time Magazine Archive
Down along 650 feet of deck raced 1,300 warrant officers, petty officers, sailors, Royal Marines to jam themselves on the tiny stern deck abaft the anti-aircraft guns.
From Time Magazine Archive
The mainsheet is under the deck, with a two-part adjustment just abaft the helm, and all the winch-control buttons are recessed flush with removable chafe pads.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Susan Marie was a thirty-foot stern-picker—a standard, well-tended San Piedro gill-netter—with her cabin just abaft of midship.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
