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2. Tacking (sailing) - Wikipedia

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   Tacking: Sailing the craft into the wind from the port tack to the starboard tack. Beating to windward on a series of port and starboard tacks, tacking between each at points 1, 2, and 3. Tacking or coming about is a sailing maneuver by which a sailing craft ( sailing vessel, ice boat, or land yacht ), whose next destination is into the wind ...

3. Port and starboard - Wikipedia

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   Port and starboard. Port and starboard are nautical terms for watercraft, aircraft and spacecraft, referring respectively to the left and right sides of the vessel, when aboard and facing the bow (front). Vessels with bilateral symmetry have left and right halves which are mirror images of each other. One asymmetric feature is where access to a ...

4. List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

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   Commonly used in the names of logical arguments and fallacies, preceding phrases such as a silentio (by silence), ad antiquitatem (to antiquity), ad baculum (to the stick), ad captandum (to capturing), ad consequentiam (to the consequence), ad crumenam (to the purse), ad feminam (to the woman), ad hominem (to the person), ad ignorantiam (to ...

5. Nautical mile - Wikipedia

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   A nautical mile is a unit of length used in air, marine, and space navigation, and for the definition of territorial waters. Historically, it was defined as the meridian arc length corresponding to one minute (1 / 60 of a degree) of latitude at the equator, so that Earth's polar circumference is very near to 21,600 nautical miles (that is 60 minutes × 360 degrees).

6. Category:Nautical terminology - Wikipedia

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   Chief mate. Chine (boating) Circle of death (boating) Cold ironing. Companionway. Compartment (ship) Conn (nautical) Consort (nautical) Constant bearing, decreasing range.

7. Sailing - Wikipedia

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   Sailing. Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites —to propel a craft on the surface of the water ( sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer ), on ice ( iceboat) or on land ( land yacht) over a chosen course, which is often part of a larger plan of navigation . From prehistory until the second half of the ...

8. Nautical chart - Wikipedia

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   A nautical chart or hydrographic chart is a graphic representation of a sea region or water body and adjacent coasts or banks. Depending on the scale of the chart, it may show depths of water ( bathymetry) and heights of land ( topography ), natural features of the seabed, details of the coastline, navigational hazards, locations of natural and ...

9. Ship measurements - Wikipedia

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   Definitions. Beam – A measure of the width of the ship. There are two types: Beam, Overall (BOA), commonly referred to simply as Beam – The overall width of the ship measured at the widest point of the nominal waterline. Beam on Centerline (BOC) – Used for multihull vessels. The BOC for vessels is measured as follows: For a catamaran: the ...