sea room

“We had sea room then. Sea room! But we were off Nantucket Shoals ten days ago! Where are we now?”

They were blown here, and fought in vain for sea room; the ships kept going in to their destruction, slammed on the reef.

It added, “the selection of a near coastal route provided inadequate sea room to allow time for response actions to take place before being set onto Albatross Bank and into the more dangerous shallower waters.”

I wish we'd a good frigate under us and plenty o' sea room.

Given a trim ship and plenty of sea room, and it isn’t all the wind that can blow that will succeed in lowering the spirits of the British sailor.