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.

Yikes so even though the wind is coming from the other side the boat
remains on the same tack?

What's the difference between 'being on a tack', and 'tacking'?


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