Acts 27:15

and could not bear up into the wind (R. V."face the wind"). This comes nearer to the original, which is literally "to look the wind in the eye."

we let her drive (R. V."we gave way to it, and were driven.) The literal rendering is "having given way we were driven." The general usage of the verb in the sense of "yielding to superior force" makes it most probable that the meaning is "we yielded to the wind." The. A. V. makes the sense "we yielded the vessel up."