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of sail is a sailing craft's direction of travel under sail in relation to the true wind direction over the surface. The principal points of sail roughly...20 KB (2,566 words) - 03:18, 11 January 2024
Sail rigs A sail is a tensile structure, which is made from fabric or other membrane materials, that uses wind power to propel sailing craft, including...56 KB (5,998 words) - 08:37, 19 May 2024
sail-powered land vehicles. Similar principles in a rotating frame of reference apply to windmill sails and wind turbine blades, which are also wind-driven...71 KB (8,303 words) - 07:17, 22 May 2024
magnetic sail is a proposed method of spacecraft propulsion where an onboard magnetic field source interacts with a plasma wind (e.g., the solar wind) to form...155 KB (21,750 words) - 10:34, 10 May 2024
Sailing (redirect from Sail navigation)Sailing craft and their rigs Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the water (sailing ship...75 KB (9,746 words) - 01:19, 18 April 2024- probably blow in the right direction. Tacking, i.e. using contrary wind to pull (sic) the sails, was always possible but wasted time because of the zigzagging...15 KB (2,222 words) - 05:39, 9 May 2024
example, Manila galleons could not sail into the wind at all. By the 18th century, the importance of the trade winds to England's merchant fleet for crossing...17 KB (1,889 words) - 14:12, 3 May 2024
useful analogy to solar sailing may be a sailing boat; the light exerting a force on the large surface is akin to a sail being blown by the wind. High-energy...95 KB (11,315 words) - 06:58, 19 May 2024- forces the surface wind to slow and turn near the surface of the Earth, blowing directly towards the low pressure, when compared to the winds in the nearly...35 KB (4,299 words) - 16:29, 29 February 2024
Sailing ship (redirect from Sail ship)Sail plans A sailing ship is a sea-going vessel that uses sails mounted on masts to harness the power of wind and propel the vessel. There is a variety...75 KB (7,929 words) - 20:28, 21 May 2024
Spinnaker (redirect from Kite (sail))A spinnaker is a sail designed specifically for sailing off the wind on courses between a reach (wind at 90° to the course) to downwind (course in the...26 KB (3,642 words) - 22:21, 11 January 2024
Land sailing (redirect from Land sail)because it does not fully depend on wind. The earliest text describing the Chinese use of mounting masts and sails on large vehicles is the Book of the...29 KB (3,868 words) - 07:11, 2 December 2023
to offer an appropriate airfoil, according to the strength and apparent direction of the wind. A variety of features and fittings allow the sail to be...36 KB (3,925 words) - 22:05, 10 March 2024
Wind shear /ʃɪr/ (or windshear), sometimes referred to as wind gradient, is a difference in wind speed and/or direction over a relatively short distance...29 KB (3,364 words) - 10:57, 27 May 2024- The 2023–24 SailGP Championship is the fourth season of the SailGP championship. Bernoulli | Locke planned to enter the championship as a fan-run team...39 KB (1,576 words) - 15:19, 9 May 2024
Windsurfing (redirect from Wind surfer)the mast perpendicular to the wind, lifting the luff out of the water to allow the wind to catch the sail, and then having the sail pull the sailor onto...90 KB (11,017 words) - 16:24, 3 May 2024
On sailboats, a sail batten is a flexible insert in a sail, parallel to the direction of wind flow, that helps shape its qualities as an airfoil. Battens...5 KB (634 words) - 04:52, 19 October 2023
causing severe damage to their F50. Day 1 of racing on August 19 was cancelled due to light wind. The Range Rover France Sail Grand Prix event brought...36 KB (1,170 words) - 11:16, 5 May 2024
- 1895 (1895) Wellner's Sail-Wheel Flying Machine by Helene Bonfort 1226865Popular Science Monthly Volume 46 March 1895 — Wellner's Sail-Wheel Flying Machine1895Helene
- was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them: the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke
- flowing at the sail surface is not the true wind. The sail alone is not sufficient to drive the boat in any desired direction, as a sail by itself would