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How sailing against the wind works, the aerodynamics and engineering that made ocean exploration possible

Sailing directly into the wind sounds impossible, yet sailors have done it for centuries. This breaks down the physics of sails, lift, keels, and tacking that allows ships to move forward even when ...
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White paper introduces mechanical sail taxonomy to set wind propulsion standards

Ville Paakkari, head of R&D at Norsepower (Helsinki, Finland), in collaboration with Henrik Sjöblom, VP of business concepts at Kongsberg Maritime (Kongsberg, Norway), have published a white paper ...