High-performance sailing
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high-performance-sailing-292-3805102
title:
High-performance sailing
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High-performance sailing is achieved with low forward surface resistance—encountered by catamarans, sailing hydrofoils, iceboats or land sailing craft—as the sailing craft obtains motive power with its sails or aerofoils at speeds that are often faster than the wind on both upwind and downwind points of sail. Faster-than-the-wind sailing means that the apparent wind angle experienced on the moving craft is always ahead of the sail. This has generated a new concept of sailing, called "apparent wi
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Optimizing sailboat speed
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-performance_sailing
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2024-04-01T02:47:48Z
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