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Secondly, over decades the ship of state was borne far out on theporttackand it required great nerve, courage and resolution to turn the helm.
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If the wind is from starboard, the vessel is on starboard tack, and if from port, onporttack.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is the point at which the boat is neither onporttackor starboard tack and is headed directly into the wind.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.To farther explain using this logic, the rules-of-the-road, at sea are that a sailboat on a starboard tack has right-of-way over one onporttack.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If the wind is coming from anywhere on the port side, the boat is onporttack.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There is a distinction between theporttackand the starboard tack.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Boats generally approach the starting line on starboard tack to maintain right of way over boats onporttack.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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