Sailing
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Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wing sails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the water, on ice or on land over a chosen course, which is often part of a larger plan of navigation.
Sloops racing with fore-and-aft sails
Three-masted barque with square sails
Sailing hydrofoil catamaran with wingsail
DN class ice boat
Point of sail
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A point of sail is a sailing craft's direction of travel under sail in relation to the true wind direction over the surface.
Sailing
…to sail both upwind and downwind courses. The course with respect to the true wind direction (as would be indicated by a stationary flag) is called a point of sail. Conventional sailing craft cannot derive wind power on a course with a point of sail that is too close into the wind. Sailing was probably independently…
Close-hauled
Reaching
Running downwind
Iceboats parked in irons with sails loose and not generating power, but flapping like a flag.