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Flangini formed a line on thestarboardtack.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If the sail is on the port side of the boat you are onstarboardtackand vice versa.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If the wind is from starboard, the vessel is onstarboardtack, and if from port, on port tack.
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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 on port tack orstarboardtackand 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 astarboardtackhas right-of-way over one on port tack.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Except when "head to wind", a boat will be on either port orstarboardtackwhile on any point of sail.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For this purpose, port andstarboardtackinclude any position with the wind to that side, whether moving upwind or downwind.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In astarboardtackthe wind is coming in from the rider's starboard (right-hand) side, similar to sailing a boat.
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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 onstarboardtackto maintain right of way over boats on port tack.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There is a distinction between the port tack and thestarboardtack.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.I was on thestarboardtack!
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.With the prevailing trade wind direction being east to east-north-east, this is most frequently down-the-line sailing onstarboardtack(wind from right when standing on the beach).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In this case the wind is coming over the port side of the boat but you are still onstarboardtackbecause the sail is on the port side.
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