HigHurtenflurst said:
Are you an experienced sailor and planning to explain what you mean by this? As far as I know, sailing into the wind (at least directly into a headwind) is definately not the fastest... surely sailing into the wind would essentially cause a "stall" (or whatever the technical term may be) For modern sails (that are tacked) I would think the fastest way to travel is diagonally away from the wind... wheras old straight shaped sails like a galley the fastest way would probably be to travel with the wind directly. |
Yeah sure. Sailing perfectly into the wind won't work of course, but some degrees off is great. It's far from a simple concept so here is a big fancy link.
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/sailing.html
