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The Physics of Sailing - University of Colorado Boulder

sails to boats in order to move them across the water. These sails acted like parachutes, catching the wind and moving the boat in the direction of the wind, thereby limiting the motion of the boat, more or less, to this direction [4]. While this limited direction of motion is certainly a drawback of such a design, another setback is

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