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"Capt. Mooron" wrote in message ... I've got 6 tons says he loses on impact! So you've got a large ass. Who really cares besides LP? S.Simon |
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Yikes so even though the wind is coming from the other side the boat remains on the same tack? So how do you explain that to the guy coming at you when the boat = APPEARS to be on a port tack but is, in your estimation, still on a = starboard tack?? You really thik they're going to believe you when = there's a protest? Or if it's the CG? --=20 katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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Get 'em Katy!
Grin MST |
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Martin Baxter wrote:
Well, the wind is coming over the other rail, so the vessel is now on a different tack; ergo the vessel has tacked. A more accurate way to say it is 'the vessel has been tacked.' Happens all the time on smaller lakes with flukey winds. Sometimes two boats going bow to bow will be on the same tack.... more of a probelm if they're both on starboard... Fresh Breezes- Doug King |
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Capetanios Oz wrote:
What's the difference between 'being on a tack', and 'tacking'? Did you think about this question before asking it? A bit. :-) To me, 'being on a tack' suggests being on starboard tack or port tack - a state; while 'tacking' is changing from starboard to port tack or vice-versa - an action (or a series of such actions, in the sense of tacking up a channel, say). -- Wally www.makearatherlonglinkthattakesyounowhere.com Things are always clearer in the cold, post-upload light. |
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"Simple Simon" wrote in message ... | | "Capt. Mooron" wrote in message ... | I've got 6 tons says he loses on impact! | | So you've got a large ass. Who really cares besides LP? I don't think she really cares. I think she's playin' me like a piano! Such a tease! CM |
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Playings OK, It's when they try and tune the piano that you've gotta
worry. You don't have to worry about tuning..it's when they want to re-string = you that you really have problems... --=20 katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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DSK wrote: snip Sometimes two boats going bow to bow will be on the same tack.... more of a probelm if they're both on starboard... Work this out: four boats racing (one FLying Tadpole II) in two pairs on gently converging courses (roughly EbyS and EbyN), pairs about 70m apart, FTII then another on port tack, other two on starboard tack, meeting another boat coming W, also on starboard tack. All five have the wind forward. FT2 is hard on a cliff with no upwind manoeuvring room. WHat happens next? (Clayton Narrows on the lower Murray, 1994 or 95). -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Learn what lies below the waves of cyberspace! http://www.internetopera.netfirms.com |
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OZ, your whole scenario is nothing but semantics and has very little to =
do with actually sailing.... --=20 katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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"Flying Tadpole" wrote in message ... Work this out: four boats racing (one FLying Tadpole II) in two pairs on gently converging courses (roughly EbyS and EbyN), pairs about 70m apart, FTII then another on port tack, other two on starboard tack, meeting another boat coming W, also on starboard tack. All five have the wind forward. FT2 is hard on a cliff with no upwind manoeuvring room. WHat happens next? (Clayton Narrows on the lower Murray, 1994 or 95). "WATER" ???? Regards Donal -- |
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