Starts to order dinghy, despite losing yacht in a strange way (5)

I believe the answer is:

oddly

'in a strange way' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'starts to order dinghy despite losing yacht' is the wordplay.
'starts to' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letters of 'order dinghy despite losing yacht' is 'ODDLY'.

(Other definitions for oddly that I've seen before include "in a curious way" , "Weirdly" , "This clue [32A] is not numbered so" , "Unusually" , "Strangely, curiously" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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