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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,...

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...

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...

to discover the pattern of winds and currents that would carry them where they wanted to go. During the Age of Sail, winds and currents determined trade...

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...

An electric sail (also known as an electric solar wind sail or an E-sail) is a proposed form of spacecraft propulsion using the dynamic pressure of the...

the light exerting a force on the large surface is akin to a sail being blown by the wind. High-energy laser beams could be used as an alternative light...

up sail in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A sail is any type of surface intended to move a vessel, vehicle or rotor by being placed in a wind. Sail or...

ocean. It is commonly known by the names sea raft, by-the-wind sailor, purple sail, little sail, or simply Velella. This small cnidarian is part of a specialised...

staysail and trysail. Sails for lighter winds would include a spinnaker, a drifter, and a mainsail with lighter sail cloth. Each sail has a separate set...

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...

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...

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...

tacking maneuvers, allows a vessel to sail towards a destination that is closer to the wind that the vessel can sail directly. A sailing craft, whose course...

Who Can Sail Without the Wind? (Swedish: Vem kan segla förutan vind?, lit. 'Who can sail without wind?') is a Swedish folk song and lullaby known from...

typically sail over 14,000 nmi (26,000 km) as their routes were adjusted to find favourable winds.: 31  Gaynor, Jennifer L. (2013). "Ages of Sail, Ocean...

direction of the wind. A variety of features and fittings allow the sail to be attached to lines and spars. Whereas conventional sails form an airfoil...

A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called sails or blades, by tradition specifically to mill grain (gristmills)...

into the wind is a sailing expression that refers to a sail boat's ability to move forward despite being headed into (or very nearly into) the wind. A sailboat...

Wind chimes are a type of percussion instrument constructed from suspended tubes, rods, bells, or other objects that are often made of metal or wood. The...