Fail to complete a tacking manoeuvre successfully.
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TACKING
Changing from one tack to another by going through the wind.
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WEARING SHIP
Tacking away from the wind in a square-rigged vessel.
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TACK
A leg of the route of a sailing vessel, particularly in relation to tacking and to starboard tack and port tack .
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READY ABOUT
A call to indicate imminent tacking.
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IN IRONS
Losing momentum while tacking a vessel through the eye of the wind, the vessel can be temporarily immobilised with the sails stalled. She will have to fall off the wind, get the sails full again and with speed on once more attempt to use her forward momentum to swing through the wind.
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LEE-HO
Warning cry of imminent tacking manoeuvre.
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MIZZEN STAYSAIL
A fore and aft sail hoisted on the mizzen. It is tacked down forward, overlapping the mainsail, to the weather side of the deck and sheeted to the end of the mizzen boom. It must to be lowered when tacking or gybing.
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