one could question the actual usefulness of this maneuver.
Practical Maneuvers?
In KanColle, the flying smokestack backpack magical girl transformation morphball roll water-skating butt-thrust-to-launch-torpedoes anime?
Why simply do what a real ship would do, (or a Touhou, wanting to graze for that matter,) and just turn left a little when you can do a little dance number with Daily Lesbian?