starboard tack

"When it is dark, put the ship on a starboard tack.

Then bring her on to the starboard tack and run in to intercept the enemy.

We were on the starboard tack at the time, making leeway off shore.

They had lost their lead, but they kept in mind that this was a starboard tack.

Conner headed to the preferred left side of the course on starboard tack.

We squeezed over the starting line on a starboard tack, waiting for the fleet to spread out before coming about.

With less than a minute before the start gun, the opponents broke off, both on starboard tack, and headed up to the mark.

But she, although the heavens be black, Holds on upon the starboard tack, For why?

This is a course steered at right angles to the wind on either port or starboard tack.

The ship was on the starboard tack, and the heel of the deck was against her.

A barge running and on a starboard tack.

The trouble was, she was on the starboard tack, and we were on port.

Force her on to the starboard tack, for instance, so all the larboard side guns get drenched.

There is a distinction between the port tack and the starboard tack.

"Mister Tyler, please be good enough to wear the ship around and lay her close hauled on the starboard tack."

She was on the starboard tack, with the light southwesterly wind abaft the beam.

We wore ship not long ago, and are close-hauled on the starboard tack.'

A little before this the British squadron had worn together by signal, and now they were on the starboard tack, under easy sail.

The Nutmeg turned, bringing the wind right aft, came up again on the starboard tack and sailed off as she had come.

On the starboard tack the wind was almost dead astern and gusting up to 40 knots.

Ordering the ship on a starboard tack, he stalked down the steep stairs to his cabin.

Toward sunset the wind returned, but from a different quarter; the captain put the ship on a starboard tack, to sail almost due north.

Except when head to wind, a boat will be on either port or starboard tack while on any point of sail.

The Calypso, on the starboard tack, was rolling with a slightly larger dip to larboard.

Hermaphrodite on the starboard tack - she's coming about - yes, sir, I recognize her for sure.'