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- starboard or port tack. Generally, a boat is on a starboard tack if the wind is coming over the starboard (right) side of boat with sails on port (left) side...4 KB (486 words) - 22:37, 17 May 2024
Tacking or coming about is a sailing maneuver by which a sailing craft (sailing vessel, ice boat, or land yacht), whose next destination is into the wind...16 KB (1,905 words) - 09:45, 10 March 2024
Jibe (category Articles to be expanded from September 2023)person and rigging compared to tacking. Therefore, accidental jibes are to be avoided while the proper technique must be applied so as to control the maneuver...16 KB (2,197 words) - 03:47, 30 March 2024- Glossary of nautical terms (M–Z) (redirect from On the beach (nautical))registry. port tack When sailing with the wind coming from the port side of the vessel. Vessels on port tack must give way to those on starboard tack. porthole...251 KB (31,530 words) - 13:14, 13 May 2024
[Part 2, Section A]: Boats on a port tack shall keep clear of boats on starboard tack (Rule 10). When boats are on the same tack and overlapped, the boat...18 KB (851 words) - 13:50, 24 April 2023
A tack piano (also known as a harpsipiano, jangle piano, and junk piano) is an altered version of an ordinary piano, in which objects such as thumbtacks...2 KB (242 words) - 13:39, 8 February 2024- boat turns through this point on each tack. It is the point at which the boat is neither on port tack or starboard tack and is headed directly into the...3 KB (430 words) - 16:08, 17 December 2022
Sailing (section Changing tack by tacking)to side. Tacking from the port tack (bottom) to the starboard (top) tack Beating to windward on short (P1), medium (P2), and long (P3) tacks A sailing...75 KB (9,746 words) - 01:19, 18 April 2024
IDEC Sport (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)remains port tack, blowing constantly at over 30 knots, an ideal configuration for speed records. Top speeds vary between 38 and 44 knots depending on the...18 KB (1,747 words) - 15:04, 30 March 2024- line, and although they may be further down the wind from the top mark, they are more easily able to tack onto port tack should the wind shift or to get...9 KB (1,633 words) - 07:51, 22 November 2021
needed] "Messabouts" is replaced in UK especially on canals by "banter" and the emphasis will be more on talk and camaraderie than actually doing anything...2 KB (278 words) - 06:29, 23 May 2024
four port-cities in the world to be categorised as a large-port Megacity, due to its high volumes of port traffic and large urban population. The Port of...11 KB (822 words) - 13:07, 29 May 2024
Tiller (category Articles to be expanded from June 2018)"the wrong way round". For example, to turn a ship to port (its left side), the helmsman would be given the order "starboard helm" or "x degrees starboard"...14 KB (1,888 words) - 14:52, 25 January 2024
Tacking Point is a suburb of Port Macquarie, a city in New South Wales. Tacking Point is a popular tourist destination. It is home to Tacking Point Lighthouse...1 KB (97 words) - 21:57, 29 January 2024
South America to the Pacific Ocean. During 12 days, the wind remained port tack, blowing constantly at over 30 knots, an ideal configuration for speed...31 KB (2,481 words) - 20:03, 14 January 2024
and a breeze from the north-east, Zoutman manoeuvred his line onto a port tack, heading south-east by east, and awaited Parker, who held the weather...15 KB (1,373 words) - 16:31, 3 April 2024
throughout the rest of the course. Of note, most of the race takes place on port tack, that is, the boat would have made good use of the missing starboard...16 KB (789 words) - 20:38, 22 August 2023
Battle of Cuddalore (1783) (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)When a consistent west wind developed on 20 June, Hughes lined-up for battle on a northward-trending port tack and awaited Suffren's action. Lining-up...32 KB (874 words) - 12:45, 26 April 2024
Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797) (category Coordinates on Wikidata)Spanish lee division now put about to the port tack to break the British line at the point where the ships were tacking in succession. Orion came round untouched...43 KB (3,531 words) - 20:58, 6 May 2024
- blowing freshly from the southwest. "Stand on the port tack two hours longer, then tack out and you will be clear of land," said the pilot, and, with the
- All right, everybody! Come and get it! Breakfast's ready! Hot coffee, hard tack and vitamin pill! I think I'll call you Cleopatra because you're such a cool
- "A" on the port tack, must turn to avoid boat "B" on the starboard tack. When two sailboats are approaching each other and are on the same tack, the