4 adjectives to describe leeway

She moved forward, there was no doubt of that, for gradually we were eating toward the windbut we made considerable leeway as well.

She won't sail anywhere near the wind, and makes awful leeway.

The training of a lifetime would not permit him to deny himself a liberal leeway for hedging, therefore he replied, cautiously: "My figures will be approximately £1,400,000 sterling."

i' your tail, Right on ye scud your sea-way; But in the teeth o' baith to sail, It maks an unco leeway.

4 adjectives to describe  leeway