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| (...) I grew up with small sailboats that only had a tiller, where you push the tiller one way to go the other. But I've specifcally read somewhere that "hard a'starboard" is the command for the wheel and the ship very specifcally goes the other (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| Bruce Schlickbernd wrote (...) How about if the helmsman, instead of 'slammed the wheel hard a'starboard', 'pushed the wheel hard over, and the Aurora heaved sharply to starboard'.? (...) and (...) Wasn't lady Washington the Enterprise of Trek 7? (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: "Hard a starboard" (was John E. Doolittle)
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| OK, now that I've recovered, but lost all the knowledge of which messages I had read... (I've been thinking of writing my own customized newsreader, OEs little crashes are making me seriously consider it...) Bruce Schlickbernd wrote in message ... (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
| | | | | Re: "Hard a starboard" (was John E. Doolittle)
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| (...) Well done. Thanks for the excellent refernce. Yes, the America's Cup boats turn in the direction of the wheel. I learned to sail before I could drive, so the opposite direction tiller thing never bugged me. Bruce (25 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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