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| Keywords: Tacking Intervals.svg en Schematic showing different paths of a vessel beating against the wind A vessel sailing against the wind from A to B can tack using different sized intervals taking e g the paths P1 P2 or P3 while travelling the same overall distance In a narrow channel path P1 can be necessary while in open water P3 may be preferable because it requires fewer turns In all cases the vessel will sail as close to the wind as possible Jibing_Intervals_2 jpg 2011-07-25 09 21 UTC Jibing_Intervals_2 jpg Lindert derivative work Gregors <span class signature-talk >talk</span> 09 22 25 July 2011 UTC Redraw of pixel jpg image as vector svg Gregors Jibing_Intervals_2 jpg in-image interferes with image reuse </nowiki> 2010-03-17T23 40 22Z Lindert 965x628 176877 Bytes <nowiki> own Lindert 2010-03-18 </nowiki> Uploaded with derivativeFX Sailing manoeuvres Sailing diagrams | ||||
