"to run out staysails port and starboard"

Portuguese translation: deixar correr as velas de estai a bombordo e a estibordo

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English term or phrase:"to run out staysails port and starboard"
Portuguese translation:deixar correr as velas de estai a bombordo e a estibordo

13:44 Apr 6, 2005
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Ships, Sailing, Maritime
English term or phrase: "to run out staysails port and starboard"
" - Tighten the braces and run out staysails port and starboard!! We're bein' fired on!!"
OdeteGuimarães
Portugal
Local time: 04:00
deixa correr as velas de estai a bombordo e a estibordo
Explanation:
Por definição, não existem velas de estai ***de*** bombordo ou ***de*** estibordo. As velas de estai correm entre mastros, i.e., no eixo longitudinal do navio.

http://www.hms-trincomalee.co.uk/virtual/rigging/sails.htm

"boreste" é a designação brasileira para "estibordo", não sendo utilizada em Portugal
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João Roque Dias
Portugal
Local time: 04:00
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5 +1abrir velas de estai de bombordo e boreste
rhandler
5deixa correr as velas de estai a bombordo e a estibordo
João Roque Dias


  

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to run out staysails port and starboard
abrir velas de estai de bombordo e boreste


Explanation:
port = bombordo
starboard = boreste (antigamente, estibordo)
staysail = velas de estai que se situam entre os mastros.
Veja estes exemplos:

[DOC] Guia do túnel de vento Ciência Viva
File Format: Microsoft Word 2000 - View as HTML
... Vela de Estai - Vela que fica colocada na parte anterior do mastro, ...
A vela de estai é regulada de forma a afunilar a abertura entre esta e a face de ...
mar.ist.utl.pt/recursos/GuiaTunel.doc

Clube Naval - index
... a vela grande do Adamastor, capitaneada por A. Coutinho rasgou-se, tendo a embarcação completado o percurso até Durban apenas com a vela de estai, ...
www.tropical.co.mz/~clubenaval/

MySkipper.com
... Alguns barcos só usam duas velas, a vela grande ea vela de estai. mas muitos usam à frente uma vela ... Embarcações miúdas em costa aberta ...
www.myskipper.com/myskipper/myskipper_artigos_tec.asp


rhandler
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Native speaker of: Portuguese
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agree  Edward Lines: a bombordo e boreste (estibordo). If the mast had 2 forward stays you could actually set one to port and one to starboard. Known as 'goosewing'or 'asa de pombo'
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to run out staysails port and starboard
deixa correr as velas de estai a bombordo e a estibordo


Explanation:
Por definição, não existem velas de estai ***de*** bombordo ou ***de*** estibordo. As velas de estai correm entre mastros, i.e., no eixo longitudinal do navio.

http://www.hms-trincomalee.co.uk/virtual/rigging/sails.htm

"boreste" é a designação brasileira para "estibordo", não sendo utilizada em Portugal

João Roque Dias
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Local time: 04:00
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