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dowra
 
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Default how a sail works, who can help me explain?

"katysails" wrote in message ...
How a sail owrks: Big stick...big piece of cloth....wind.....wind pushes boat...what else do you need to know/

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Katysails, wind does not push boat, sail causes vacuum on leeward
side, sail gets sucked into vacuum, pulls boat with it.
Forget all the other stuff, this is all you need to know.
Dowra.