STARBOARD TACK: Wind across the starboard (right) side.
STAYSAIL: On a cutter this is the sail located between the jib and the main sail
STEM: The forward most part of the bow.
STERN: The back, or aft end of a boat.
Starboard Tack: Wind across the starboard (right) side.
Tacking: Changing direction by turning into the wind.
Windward: The direction the wind is coming from, upwind.
starboard tack - A sailboat sailing on a tack with the wind coming over the starboard side and the boom on the port side of the boat. If two boats under sail are approaching, the one on port tack must give way to the boat on starboard tack.
Starboard Tack: Sailing with the wind coming over the starboard side.
Starboard tack - a course with the wind coming from starboard and the boom on the port side
Step - the frame that the bottom of the mast ends into
Stow - to put away ...
Starboard tack With the wind on the starboard side.
Stem The forward continuation of the keel to which the planking at the fore end of the boat is affixed.
Stern Sheets The platform extending aft from the aftermost thwart.
Starboard tack and port tack relate to which boat will have r-o-w under Rule 10 (On Opposite Tacks). Used in: Rules 10, 11, 18.1, 18.3, 19.1 and Clear Astern and Clear Ahead; Overlap.
- Basic ...
Vessel on starboard tack, allow leeway to the left.
Vessel on port tack, allow leeway to the right.
Starboard Tack
When the wind comes from the right to the left, it blows over the starboard side of the boat.
Stem
The forward most part of the bow.
Stern
The rear of the boat.
Stern Line
A docking line leading from the stern.
A course with the wind coming from the right or left side of the boat, such as starboard tack or port tack tack or tacking (verb) 1. Turning the boat so that the bow passes through the wind. 2.
surge Starboard boat or starboard tack wins. This actually represents two rules, depending on whether the meeting boats are both sail or both power.
On starboard tack the wind comes over the starboard side, on port tack it comes over the port side. "The" may be used before "tack", but "a" is never used. For example a boat sails on port tack or on the port tack, but not on a port tack. 2) To tack ...
A sailboat on a port tack (wind coming over the port side) must give way to one on a starboard tack (wind coming over the starboard). If the two sailboats are on the same tack then the windward boat must give way to the leeward boat.
Tack: The direction of the wind on sails (port tack or starboard tack)
- the forward lower corner of a sail.
Top sail: A sail mounted above another, usually above the main.
Transom: The wide area at the very back of a boat spanning between its sides.
and the vessel can lie four points from the wind; then on the starboard tack the vessel will head S., or two points off her course ; on the port tack she will lie W., or six points off her course.
When you finish the tack, you're now on a starboard tack, your main has switched side (normal) but your headsail is now in a position you have not seen before: the head sail is set against the wind with its clew is to windward instead of leeward ...
A barge running and on a starboard tack. Both main and mizzen are spritsails.
The left-hand picture shows the port vang tackle in the foreground. It is slack because it is to leeward. The mainsheet and loose footed mainsail are visible beyond.
There are three sailboats pictured, two on a starboard tack and one on a port tack. The port tack sailboat ( #2 ) is the give-way vessel.
The sailing rules that dictate that a sailing vessel on starboard tack (the side the wind is coming from) is the stand on vessel is as old as any other regulations.
#1- Bottom Figure- Old Course
You're traveling upwind on a starboard tack. You call out "Ready about," and turn your helm into the wind.
The lower forward corner of a triangular sail. The direcftion that a boat is sailing with respect to the wind as in port tack or starboard tack. To change qa boat's direction, bringing the bow through the eye of the wind.
tack hook ...
If your sails are filled with the wind on the opposite side to what you want (for example, if they are trimmed for the starboard tack, but you get the wind from the port side), you are said to be backwinded.
Bail ...
When she has the wind to starboard and the boom to port, she is on starboard tack. When she has the wind to port and the boom to starboard, she is on port tack.
3.
For boats of equal priority (e.g. two sailboats) the one to the right has the right-of-way (a). For a head-on approach, a sailboat on the starboard tack has priority over a sailboat on the port tack. (b).
Lift: Change in wind direction towards the stern of the boat. A header for a boat on port tack is a lift for a boat on starboard tack.
Luff: Forward edge of sail.
A starboard tack boat is the stand-on vessel and has the right of way. A port tack boat has to keep clear. When over-taking, the boat ahead is the stand-on vessel. The over-taking boat has to keep clear.
to enact the Steam Navigation Act of 1846, which required that steam vessels pass port-to-port, that crossing vessels make course alterations to the starboard, and that sailing vessels on the port tack give way to vessels on the starboard tack.
 See also: Starboard, Sailing, Boat, Boom, Forward
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