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A comment on A Review of Modern Sail Theory (1981) [pdf].

Re:A Review of Modern Sail Theory (1981) [pdf] by ouid on Thursday March 09, 2017 @11:25AM (#13830315)
If HN consisted entirely of this kind of thing, I would never get anything done.
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Re:A Review of Modern Sail Theory (1981) [pdf] by finnh on Thursday March 09, 2017 @02:19PM (#13832262)
You might want to dive into the physics of "sailing downwind faster than the wind"[0], then =)

[0] uh, just google it really

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Re:A Review of Modern Sail Theory (1981) [pdf] by sdenton4 on Thursday March 09, 2017 @04:39PM (#13833975)
An example video of the Downwind Faster than the Wind Challeng (DWFTTW), with windspeed 0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgHBDESd38M
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Re:A Review of Modern Sail Theory (1981) [pdf] by andlier on Thursday March 09, 2017 @07:57PM (#13835404)
This: https://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/DDWFTTW.htm
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