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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]
Beating upwind, a vessel alternates between having the wind come on the port and starboard sides (the port and starboard tack). Changing from one tack to the other, by steering through the wind direction, is called tacking, or going about. [13]
Tacking (an old form of “attaching”) is a legal right most usually relevant when the common law resolves competing priorities between two or more security interests arising over the same asset. It is of two types:
This vessel is on port tack with the wind coming from the port side.. As a point of reference, tack is the alignment of the wind with respect to a sailing craft under way. If the wind is from the starboard side of the sailing craft, it is on starboard tack, and if from port, on port ta
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With tacking to windward carrying these risks, in some situations shipmasters considered it quicker and safer to travel upwind by executing a series of jibes, turning the vessel across the wind through 270 degrees rather than through the 90 degrees of a tack. This, however, would result in considerable ground lost to leeward with each jibe.
Tacking may refer to: Tacking (sailing) or coming about, a sailing maneuver Tacking (law) , a legal concept relating to competing priorities between interests arising over the same asset
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