Tacking repeatedly from port to starboard and / or vice versa, called " beating ", is done in order to allow the boat to follow a course into the wind.

Tacking is valid only if the conveyance of the property from one adverse possesser to another is founded upon a written document ( usually an erroneous deed ), indicating " color of title.

* Wearing ship: Tacking away from the wind in a square-rigged vessel.

Tacking or coming about is a sailing maneuver by which a sailing vessel ( which is sailing approximately into the wind ) turns its bow through the wind so that the direction from which the wind blows changes from one side to the other.

Tacking is distinct from jibing, where the ship's stern passes through the wind.

' Tacking also resulted from damage.

Tacking is when the scribe would hold together the leaves in quire with thread.

Tacking is essential when sailing upwind.

The relationship between Cardassians and Bajorans, former enemies turned allies, is charted in " Tacking Into the Wind ", in which Damar and Kira's group abandon prejudice and collaborate to seize a Breen weapon.

Gowron makes his final appearances in " When It Rains ..." and " Tacking Into the Wind ", where he assumes direct command of Klingon military forces and launches multiple reckless attacks with minimal success.

Tacking fastens objects to surfaces, such as bulletin boards or walls.

Tacking Into the Wind ( Release Date: August 5, 2011 ) fifty-four ( 54 ) card virtual expansion contains a ship for almost every affiliation and sub-affiliation, including the debut of the long awaited U. S. S.

Over 20 shipwrecks occurred in the Tacking Point area before a lighthouse was designed by James Barnet and erected there in 1879 by Shepard and Mortley.

* Tacking duels: In sailboat racing on an upwind leg of the race course the complex maneuvers of lead and overtaking boats to vie for the aerodynamic advantage of clear air.

Tacking is sometimes confused with beating to windward, which is a process of beating a course upwind and generally implies ( but does not require ) actually coming about.

Tacking consequently requires technique and practice to avoid getting stuck under the boom.

In the Norwegian seafarer Ohthere of Hålogaland's account of a two-day voyage from the Oslo fjord to Schleswig, he reported the lands on his starboard bow, and Alfred appended the note " on these islands dwelt the Engle before they came hither ".

These shoals were too shallow to permit passage of larger warships, and so Brueys ordered his thirteen ships of the line to form up in a line of battle following the northeastern edge of the shoals to the south of the island, a position that allowed the ships to disembark supplies from their port side while covering the landings with their starboard batteries.

Ten minutes after the French opened fire Goliath, ignoring fire from the fort to starboard and from Guerrier to port, most of which was too high to trouble the ship, crossed the head of the French line.

Gun camera film shows tracer ammunition from a Supermarine Spitfire Mark I of No. 609 Squadron RAF, flown by Flight Lieutenant J H G McArthur, hitting a Heinkel He 111 on its starboard quarter.

Pytheas crossed the waters northward from Berrice, in the north of the British Isles, but whether to starboard, larboard, or straight ahead is not known.

There are two ways to change from port tack to starboard tack ( or vice versa ): either by turning the bow through the eye of the wind, " tacking " or the stern, " jibing ".

The bucket brigade drew water from the starboard side, took it to the engine room, and threw it onto the fire.

The bucket brigade began to draw the water from the starboard side, run over to the port side and then throw the water overboard, bypassing the engine room completely.

The following day, 14 survivors from a starboard lifeboat also landed.

The color of the traffic lights representing stop and go might be derived from those used to identify port ( red ) and starboard ( green ) in maritime rules governing right of way, where the vessel on the left must stop for the one crossing on the right.

As the French were preparing to board Victory, the Temeraire, the second ship in the British windward column, approached from the starboard bow of the Redoutable and fired on the exposed French crew with a carronade, causing many casualties.

Shots from a Supermarine Spitfire Mark I hitting a Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111 ( left ) on its starboard quarter.

Each paddler should synchronise with the stroke or pacer on the opposite side of the boat, that is, if you paddle starboard side ( right ) you would take your timing from the port side ( left ) stroke.

The Chinese fleet all opened fire on the Japanese fleet as they passed from port to starboard across the bows of the Chinese vessels.

Likewise if the wind is coming from the starboard side, the boat is on starboard tack.

Jibing from port ( nautical ) | port tack to starboard tack.

After receiving a fatal Dahlgren shell to the starboard waterline, which tore open a portion of Alabamas hull, causing her steam engine to explode from the shell's impact, Semmes was forced to order the striking of his ship's Stainless Banner battle ensign and later to display a hand-held white flag of surrender to finally halt the combat.

To commemorate the seventieth anniversary of her sinking, the starboard anchor of Mona's Queen, an Isle of Man Steam Packet Company vessel lost off Dunkirk during Operation Dynamo on which many seamen from the Port St Mary area served, was raised on 29 May 2010 and subsequently returned to the Isle of Man to form the centrepiece of a permanent memorial.

Four rounds were fired from the guns ( one from the fore gun and three from the aft ) as well as seven or eight rounds from the starboard guns, against the German destroyer Bernd von Arnim, at a range of about.

On the other side are the Celtic survivalists who have taken a tack divergent from both these schools of nineteenth century thought.

When a vessel is in a narrow channel or on a lee shore so that there is no room to tack the vessel in a conventional manner an anchor attached to the lee quarter may be dropped from the lee bow.

The cottages in the stableyard were converted from a tack and feed house.

" Sunset brought an end to the firefight, with both fleets continuing on a roughly southeast tack, away from the bay.

Others focus on a subtopic within their area of interest, perhaps 19th century postage stamps, milk bottle labels from Sussex, or Mongolian harnesses and tack. Stamp album used for collecting stamps

The caravel benefited from a greater capacity to tack.

From the mid-1870s, as white blackface minstrelsy became increasingly lavish and moved away from " Negro subjects ", black troupes took the opposite tack.

Both fleets now passed three times in opposite tack ; on the second pass De Zeven Provinciën got damaged and De Ruyter retreated from the fight to repair his ship.

They immediately lowered their topsails, but it came up so fast upon them, that, before they could raise the main tack, they observed the ball rise almost perpendicularly, and not above forty or fifty yards from the main chains when it went off with an explosion, as great as if a hundred cannons had been discharged at the same time, leaving behind it a strong sulphurous smell.

' The goal of the pass back is to slow an opposing team's boat in order for the boat that the opposing team was covering to either tack away from the covering boat, or sail ahead faster than the covering boat.

Both authors subsequently tack on 4, 000 cavalry, evidently not part of the 36, 000 or 38, 000, from which it may be inferred that the latter were infantry ( a circumstance not stated by the authors ).

Where necessary different widths can be seamed together with a seaming iron and seam tape ( formerly it was sewn together ) and it is fixed to a floor over a cushioned underlay ( pad ) using nails, tack strips ( known in the UK as gripper rods ), adhesives, or occasionally decorative metal stair rods, thus distinguishing it from rugs or mats, which are loose-laid floor coverings.

If the wind is coming from anywhere on the port side, the boat is on port tack.

The caravel particularly benefited from a greater capacity to tack.

Other promoters took an opposite tack from timeless herbal wisdom.

Hardtack ( or hard tack ) is a simple type of cracker or biscuit, made from flour, water, and sometimes salt.

The name derives from the British sailor slang for food, " tack ".

All landowners ( portioners ) within the barony held their properties either by hereditary feu or by term renewable, occasionally hereditary, tack ( Scottish word for a lease ) from the barony.

In the light southwesterly breeze the fleets slowly closed, Russell from the northeast, and Tourville, who had the weathergage, from the south, on a starboard tack to bring his line of battle into contact with Russell's.