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).


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