lled tacking / /^ becomes necessary. This / %^ consists of sailing a cer- /j ^r>w tain distance close hauled ly XA with the wind on one r\y^^^x side, and then turning /round and sailing closeFig. 21. hauled with the wind on pjg, 21/the other side. A zigzagcourse is thus taken, each tack being at… … tack is longer than the other, there oeing, in sailorlanguage, a short leg and a long leg. That the action of the rudder, when forced overtill it is at an angle with the keel, is to act as adrag on that side and so deflect the boats course, isplain enough. But it is not so obvious a fact thatthis…
Yachts and yachting · Sailing
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