retack

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The design allowed for minimal slack in a retack and minimal drag from the wind.

Ilse Witch Brooks, Terry 2000
Indeed they could do no other, for the English had gotten the advantage of the wind, and their ships being much easier managed, and ready with incredible celerity to come upon the enemy with a full course, and then to tack and retack and be on every side at their pleasure.

Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe
Follow this up by washing the floor with hot borax water, dry thoroughly, sprinkle with black pepper, and retack the carpet.

The Complete Home Oliver R. [Contributor] Williamson 1907
The spacewalk went smoothly except for a technical glitch on one of the station's robotic arms that forced astronauts to retack while hauling a failed 800-pound 363 kg cooling system pump.

Reuters: Top News 2011
The spacewalk went smoothly except for a technical glitch on one of the station's robotic arms that forced astronauts to retack while hauling a failed 800-pound 363 kg cooling system pump.

Reuters: Top News 2011