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There's port/starboard tack, where the wind is coming from the port/starboard side of the vessel. It can be confusing because, for example, if a boat on a port tack tacks to port, the result is a starboard tack (once the bow crosses the direction from which the wind is blowing).


That has another ambiguity: in wind, directions are presumed to be naming the source of the wind, not the sink.


After your first few hours on deck in foul weather, that one will seem obvious.




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