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  2. Tacking (sailing) - Wikipedia

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    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, turns its bow toward and through the wind so that the direction from which the wind blows changes from one side of the boat to the other, allowing progress in the desired direction. [1]

  3. Tack (sailing) - Wikipedia

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    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).

  4. Sailing into the wind - Wikipedia

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    In practice, optimal sailing in the direction from which the wind is coming will usually be at a course of around 45-degree angles to the oncoming wind. To reach a particular point, alternating the direction of the wind between the port and starboard side is usually necessary. This is called "tacking."

  5. Tack (square sail) - Wikipedia

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    The starboard tack of Prince William's forecourse. 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]

  6. Point of sail - Wikipedia

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    Points of sail and approximate apparent wind for a conventional sailboat on starboard tack. A point of sail is a sailing craft's direction of travel under sail in relation to the true wind direction over the surface. The principal points of sail roughly correspond to 45° segments of a circle, starting with 0° directly into the wind.

  7. Port and starboard - Wikipedia

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    Port and starboard are nautical terms for watercraft and spacecraft, referring respectively to the left and right sides of the vessel, when aboard and facing the bow (front). Vessels with bilateral symmetry have left and right halves which are mirror images of each other.

  8. Missing Australian fisherman dragged overboard by shark ... - AOL

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    Game fishing is a sport in which competitors catch, tag and release game fish including marlins, tunas and sharks. Points depend on the species of the game fish and their size.

  9. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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    Farther aft than the beam; a relative bearing of greater than 90 degrees from the bow; e.g. "two points abaft the beam, starboard side" would describe "an object lying 22.5 degrees toward the rear of the ship, as measured clockwise from a perpendicular line from the right side, center, of the ship, toward the horizon".

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