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Sailing

Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wing sails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the water (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ice (iceboat) or on land (land yacht) over a chosen course, which is often part of a larger plan of navigation.

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Other aspects of seamanship

Sail physics

Hull physics

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Sailing

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Edges195
Triples194
Avg. degree1.99
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Sailing

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related to Exploration and research · 29
Sailing → Austronesian, Austronesian Expansion, Austronesians, Bahrain, BCE, China, Egypt, Evidence, India, Island Melanesia, Kuwait, Madagascar, Maritime Southeast Asia, Mesopotamia, Micronesia, Minoa, Pacific, Polynesia, Since, Southern China
related to Bibliography · 27
Sailing → Archives CanadaRousmaniere, Book, Canadian, Company, David, Gary, Halsey, Hearst Corporation, International Marine, ISBN, John, July, Library, Little Brown, Maps, Piloting, Revised, Sailing Fundamentals, Schuster, Seamanship
related to Wind and currents · 21
Sailing → Along, Atlantic Ocean, Bay, Before, Currents, Deception Pass, Fundy, Gulf Stream, Kuroshio Current, Likewise, Local, Major, Mariners, On, Pacific Ocean, Puget Sound, Sailors, Southeast Alaska, Unfavorable, Wind
related to Commerce · 17
Sailing → Age, Australia, Baltimore Clippers, China, Clippers, Coastal, Europe, Even, In, Iron-hulled, Masts, Panama Canals, Sail, Steel, Suez, They, Ultimately
related to Sport · 15
Sailing → America's Cup, Council, Fleet, It, Match, Oceanic, Racing Rules, Sail, Sailboat, Speed, Team, The Ocean Race, Vendée Globe, World Sailing, World Sailing Speed Record
related to history · 11
Sailing → Ecuador, European, Guayaquil River, Island Southeast Asia, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Nile, The, The Caribbean, This, Throughout
related to Apparent wind velocity · 10
Sailing → All, As, Conventional, In, Likewise, The, To, VA, VB, VT
related to Management of lines · 8
Sailing → Bowline, Cleat, Clove, Figure-eight, Reef, Rolling, Sheet, The
related to Naval power · 8
Sailing → By, Early Phoenician, Greek, Gun, Roman, This, Typically, Until
related to Course under sail · 5
Sailing → Downwind, If, Ocean, Predicting, Wind

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wind sail craft sails apparent drag lift course speed boat direction power hull water may reach forces downwind point side

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Rome were totally reliant on sailing ships to deliver the large amounts of grain neededinstance ofCities0.80text
stick chartsinstance ofThey traveled vast distances of open ocean in outrigger canoes using navigation methods0.80text
Australia to Europeinstance ofsailing ships could hold their own on transoceanic voyages0.80text
since they did not require bunkerage for coal nor fresh water for steaminstance ofsailing ships could hold their own on transoceanic voyages0.80text
and they were faster than the early steamersinstance ofsailing ships could hold their own on transoceanic voyages0.80text
which usually could barely make 8 knotsinstance ofsailing ships could hold their own on transoceanic voyages0.80text
iceboatsinstance ofsome sailing craft0.80text
sand yachtsinstance ofsome sailing craft0.80text
and some high-performance sailboats can achieve a higher downwind velocity made good by traveling on a series of broad reachesinstance ofsome sailing craft0.80text
punctuated by jibes in betweeninstance ofsome sailing craft0.80text
spinnaker polesinstance ofGuys are used to control the ends of other spars0.80text
Sailinghas applicationWhile0.60section

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