Capetanios Oz wrote:

Here's a tricky one... if a vessel is sailing along close
hauled, and the wind shifts 90 degrees, forcing her sails across
while the vessel continues on a straight course, has she
'tacked'?

Not in the sense that the crew have carried out the action of
tacking - everything could be lashed and there might be nobody on
board. For colregs purposes, she is on a different tack, however...

However WHAT????

....however, the colregs weren't mentioned in the original question, so the
comment about being on a different tack may be erroneous.


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