Are there any boats that have anterior instead of dorsal sails to take greater advantage of currents vs winds?
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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) -
and a sea anchor, like a regular anchor, provides a force on the system that is WAY offset from the others in the balloon analogy, I've thought - for a fantasy campaign world - of the idea of a balloon dropping a "wind anchor" into different lower windstreams (unrealistic IRL)
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