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Sailing against the wind...

Author: * Gazesby Ordovices - 5 Posts on this thread out of 63 Posts sitewide.
Date: Dec 6, 2002 - 11:48

You can never, no matter what kind of sail you have, sail against the wind. However you can crosssail, meaning you sail diagonally against the wind and then sail diagonally the other way. This however is dificult if not impossible with a squere sail. So I guess the answer would be "No" LoL

It is against the laws of physics to sail diagonally against the wind with a squere sail and move forward since you receive the aquivalent force back on the other side of the sail, right?

Hmm, at least it should be...

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