Are there any boats that have anterior instead of dorsal sails to take greater advantage of currents vs winds?
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There is basically no way to make a boat with reefed sails respond MORE to water currents than it already is, bc it's moving 100% with the water. It's like asking "why don't hot air balloons have sails ?". They ARE sails. Boats with keels ARE "water sails".
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@JASutherlandBks re sea anchors. Tho the really interesting thing about them is that they move the two forces acting on the boat very far apart. A ton of naval architecture is thinking about where forces act on a boat (center of gravity vs center buoyancy vs center wind) - Show replies
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