Seafaring: "to tack" and "to make boards" Hello! Today I get down to work on a text about the Age of Exploration. I have a question: what is the difference between "to tack" and "to make boards"? Than

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Seafaring: "to tack" and "to make boards" Hello! Today I get down to work on a text about the Age of Exploration. I have a question: what is the difference between "to tack" and "to make boards"? Thank you! P.S. My perfect language partner, I'm looking for you! If you come from the UK or the US and learn Russian, we would probably compliment each other's learning attempts)

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Seafaring: "to tack" and "to make boards"

Hello! Today I get down to work on a text about the Age of Exploration. I have a question: what is the difference between "to tack" and "to make boards"?

Thank you!

P.S. My perfect language partner, I'm looking for you!

If you come from the UK or the US and learn Russian, we would probably compliment each other's learning attempts)

This is very good, I can see nothing to correct. To tack is to move to windward by the action of sailing first with the wind on one side of the vessel and then on the other. You do this by bringing your sail to one side of the wind or the other.

I thought I was a pretty good on sailing, but "to make boards" is meaningless to me. Maybe it's American.

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