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Your 80-ton schooner is hove to on the starboard tack under storm trysail and fore- staysail in 45 knots of wind. Your heading is averaging about 000° true and the wind is from the northeast. There is a dangerous shoal bearing 270° true, range 5 miles. Which action would be appropriate?
A) You should set a reefed foresail and strike the jib.
B) You should tack or jibe to the port tack and make all possible headway to the south.
C) You need only stay alert for changes, as your present drift will carry you away from the danger.
D) You should strike all sails and get underway under bare poles, making as much way as possible to the north.
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