Re: tacking

Claus Frørup wrote:
> Isang tao pinangalanan, Dennis Pogson nagsulat:
> 
> cut
> 
>> "A close fetch" is the nearest phrase I can think of but that implies
you 
>> can make it on the current tack although, leeway and tide can soon turn
a 
>> close fetch into a beat!
>>
>> Dennis. 
> 
> When I think of the frase "A close fetch" I get a picture in my head
> of a sailboat "Shooting a mark" mening: sailing so closehauled to the
> wind, that the boat almost looses propulsion when trying to round a
> buoy.

To me, a fetch is a reach that is not quite a beat - you don't have to 
tack, but only just.  Perhaps the ultimate asymmetric / lopsided beat?

BTW I've heard both those terms - but I suspect they have been invented 
just because there *is* no proper term in English.

Andy