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The main (and often mizzen) sails are braced around onto the new tack as the ship approaches the eye of the wind. Once the ship has come about, the remaining sails are adjusted to align properly with the new tack. Because square-rigger masts are more strongly supported from behind than from ahead, tacking is a dangerous procedure in strong winds.
To miss stays is to fail in the attempt to go about; [4] if the vessel fails to go about, she is said to refuse stays. [3] In stays, or hove in stays, is the situation of a vessel when she is staying, or in the act of going about. [4] A vessel in bad trim, or lubberly-handled, is sure to be slack or loose in the stays: she may refuse stays ...
A tack is the windward side of a sailing craft (side from which the wind is coming while under way)—the starboard or port tack. Generally, a craft is on a starboard tack if the wind is coming over the starboard (right) side with sails on port (left) side. Similarly, a craft is on a port tack if the wind is coming over the port (left).
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GGPO (Good Game Peace Out) is middleware designed to help create a near-lagless online experience for various emulated arcade games and fighting games. The program was created by Tony Cannon, co-founder of fighting game community site Shoryuken and the popular Evolution Championship Series.
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Jackson, who plays ship doctor Max Bankman, said that he hasn’t personally been on a cruise, but Paris Barclay, who directed Doctor Odyssey’s pilot episode, is apparently a big fan of big ships.
The ship is close-hauled and the sail is now controlled by the tack rather than the sheet. The tack of a square-rigged sail is a line attached to its lower corner. [1] This is in contrast to the more common fore-and-aft sail, whose tack is a part of the sail itself, the corner which is (possibly semi-permanently) secured to the vessel.