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Default NORDHAVN Rewrites Physics Textbooks

On 14 Oct, 19:14, (Steve Firth) wrote:
toad wrote:
How does the windmill know the wind is not true wind? It has no
concept of 'true' wind, it lives exclusively in apparent wind.


Most amusing that you call me a troll for pointing out that this also
applies to motor sailers.


You claimed the apparent wind on boat motoring in a flat calm would
not be on the nose.

Like saying that if I sit on a motorway in a convertable the wind
blast will be coming from the left!