English translation of "è la manovra che fa ogni veliero nei bordi" - "it is a manoeuvre (-er) / an operation performed by all the ships on the outer edge of the fleet"

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108 months ago

Barbara R Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	Italian > English
Subject:	General
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	è la manovra che fa ogni veliero nei bordi
Context:	to tack - è la manovra che fa ogni veliero nei bordi, per cambiare le mure, ossia per essere investito dal vento della parte opposta alla precedente, facendo passare la prua nella direzione del vento stesso.

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108 months ago

wrote:

it is a manoeuvre (-er) / an operation performed by all the ships on the outer edge of the fleet

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108 months ago

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I should have used "the" instead of "a". "Para cambiare le mure" could be translated by "in order to go about" (opposite of "gybe"since the ships will sail through the wind (literally "in order to change from one tack to another").

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